25 Most hated sports teams of all time

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The joke about the East German swim team went like this: The good news about their revolutionary training program was that the ladies didn't have to breathe between strokes. The bad news, of course, was that they had to shave between strokes. The facts were no laughing matter. At the 1976 Montreal Olympics, East German women won 11 gold medals in 13 races, stunning the highly touted U.S. women, who won only a single relay. In 1972, the gold tally for women's swimming had been eight for the U.S. and none for the GDR. Years later, Stasi files confirmed that diabolical cocktails of uber-doping had boosted the German women's muscles, deepened their voices and decisively dropped their times. Even before the documented revelations, their suspiciously rapid improvements, like their appearances, were giant elephants in the arena. As a souped-up Kornelia Ender (pictured) swam her way to three individual gold medals, U.S. hope Shirley Babashoff left the Games with three individual silvers and thoughts of what might have been in a clean pool. Today, the 1976 GDR women's swim team remains the most injected squad ever projected onto the sporting landscape. -- Brian Cazeneuve

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18. 1976 East Germany Women's Swimming

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14. 1972 Soviet Union Olympic Basketball

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3. 1992 Dallas Cowboys

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Apparently, teams that win are hated.

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21. 2001-02 Portland Trail Blazers

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