Black Cab Victorious

Track from Black Cab s fourth album, Games Of The XXI Olympiad released November 2014. 1 Waldemar Cierpinski, East Germany, GDR Gold 209:55. 0 2 Frank Shorter, United States, USA Silver 210:45. 8 3 Karel Lismont, Belgium, BEL, Bronze 211:12. 6 It is now well known that East Germany operated a statesponsored system of providing performanceenhancing drugs to as many as 10, 000 athletes from about 1968 to 1988. Cierpinski was implicated by East German track and field research files uncovered by Werner Franke at the Stasi headquarters in Leipzig in the late 1990s. As a result, 1976 silver medallist Frank Shorter has advocated the belief that Cierpinski cheated and has supported official review of past performances, i. e. considering stripping medals from athletes who are found later on to have cheated, as a deterrent to drugcheats. Fourthplace finisher Don Kardong has also written that he believed Cierpinski was involved in the East German doping program. Shorter s