I listened to Sharron Davies' pod on filia {{https://filia.org.uk/podcasts/2020/6/26/filia-meets-olympian-swimmer-sharron-davies}}
She mentioned that some of her peers from Eastern Bloc who were doped had died prematurely.
Do we know what they were taking and what they died of?
I'm assuming that their doping is similar to cross sex hormones in that it'll put a female body into premature menopause and increase the (well documented) risks of cardiovascular disease, dementia and osteoporosis.
I can't seen that these risks are reduced because a female bodied person has a gender difference or gender dysphoria. I am sure that long term cross sex hormones will damage female bodied people, no matter how they identify - so, presumably, the doping of athletes in the 80s could be looked at to see what the long term impact?
Anyone seen anything? I'm assuming it's quite hard to access information from those countries about that time. I don't think any of them ever admitted to doping their athletes?
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what happened to the Eastern Bloc athletes doped?
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vivariumvivariumsvivaria · 19/01/2021 12:16
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