The strange deaths of hammer throwers

Athletics / Doping

The deaths of the Soviet champions of the 80s, an unresolved mystery that historical Spanish athletes now relate to the use of anabolic drugs

Sedykh, one of the fabulous Soviet pitchers of the eighties, in Seoul 88 ABC

Ignacio Romo

Seoul, September 26, 1988. Three Soviet throwers take the podium. His dominance in the Olympic hammer throw final has been total. Litvinov, Sedykh and Tamm, a formidable trio that can no longer meet to commemorate that feat: the three have…

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