Munich to Montreal: Women's Olympic Swimming in a Tarnished Golden Era It has been called the greatest untold story of the Olympic Games. It's a true tale of athletics as Cold War proxy battle, systematic steroid doping and an improbable comeback. After decades of dominance stretching back to the 1920's, the USA women's Olympic swim team entered the 1976 Games in Montreal as underdogs. The overnight ascendance of the female swimmers from the nation of East Germany had set the world's most successful swimming nation back on its heals. What no one in America or the world could imagine at the...