It isn’t that the International Olympics Committee has recognized Ultimate Frisbee as an official sport that seems so dopey.
No, the big story is that a large batch of blood tests taken of Olympic athletes that was recently leaked suggest that up to “a third of Olympic and world championship medals” were not won cleanly.
“The report also claims that at least 800 athletes – one in seven of those named in the files – have recorded blood-test results described by an expert as “highly suggestive of doping or at the very least abnormal.”
Who f*ng cares? I say let them juice. I think the tests should be to make sure they ARE taking steroids and if they’re not, disqualify them.
Level the playing field and all.
If you new the dumb ass shit that’s on their list you would understand why. Tribulus. Really? I believe that went on the list in 1964. Creatine, etc etc. If you’ve taken any cold medication two weeks before you get checked, guess what. I agree with stranded.
Great idea, but let the non-dopers compete. Just put an asterisk by their stats in the official results.
As for ultimate frisbee, it’s a whole lot more athletic than synchronized swimming.
We’re slowly finding out that everything has been a lie.
“As for ultimate frisbee, it’s a whole lot more athletic than synchronized swimming”
Dumb sport but no. Try it while you’re in the tub tonight. Last time around they were trying to exclude Wrestling to make room for rainbow colored freebies. No matter how non athletic you are you need to realize that was THE original Olympic event.
Drugs are so quaint now. They’ll somehow be testing for excessive carbon by 2020, and there will soon be no gender division in sports. And wait’ll the muslims get sharia rules instated.
Anything global in scope is a fraud from the start or becomes a fraud over time
I wonder when the Genetic Engineering the Chineese and Russians have been doing for ever will be a concern?
After Eastern Europe decided that socialism sucked and chose freedom instead, everyone was digging through the old marxist records. It seems that East Germany was tops on the list of searching. Why?
The top olympic medal winning nations were the US and the USSR, respectively. Number three? Yes, East Germany. No one could figure that out since there were many countries that had a much higher population and many more olympic athletes than East Germany. Just the law of numbers should work against them. Then the searchers found the documents of athletes that were juiced and how, through chemical manipulation, they evaded positive tests. The athletes were never named, just given a number such as Subject 27 and a record of how much they improved. They then compared the steroid injection schedule and improvement record of Subject 27 with a known athlete — it all matched up. Track and field was her discipline and sprinting was her specialty. She was an underachieving runner who was middle of the pack at best. Then he started juicing. After every “treatment” her improvement was logged and eventually she took home some gold medals.
She still has them even though she knows she got them unfairly. Cheating is the only way socialists know how to win. Sound familiar, Obama?
And not to mention the East German “Women’s” Swim Team. In the 1976 olympics in Montreal, the EG “women’s” swimmers were destroying everyone in their prelim heats. And not by just a few seconds. By a LOT. They had to face tougher competition in the finals but still won every gold, save two.
In the locker room, the US women heard some men’s voices and were ready to call security. One of them went over and looked and it was the East German “Women’s” team.
Yes. They still have their gold medals too.
Shit, I’m sure there are even a good handful of PGA golfers who are on something that’s not exactly “legal”, all of sports are now a muddied pool of mostly those who are juiced with a few who aren’t, and that’s not going to change. I mean, what most don’t get is that it isn’t as if taking steroids and other banned compounds make you into the next Mr. Universe, Lance Armstrong should have proven that point, but then, people prefer to be blind to reality until they get slapped in the face with it.
When multi-million dollar endorsements and/or national pride are on the line, people will always find a way. Just that he/she who can afford the better designer drugs where one molecule of a testosterone ester have been altered slightly to beat the tests are the ones who don’t get popped, while those who don’t have the luxury of the best connections are the ones who get caught and pay the price.
I had hoped that once it became widely known in the late 90s how much even pro baseball had been infiltrated with drugs that perhaps people would have woken up to this new reality, but alas, it seems that most still are foolish and naïve enough to believe that their cherished athlete heroes are actually clean and aren’t skirting the bounds of what’s allowed….
Golf, Curling, and Baseball are not sports. They are activities.
Meh, I honestly don’t care either way. Most define them as “sports”, I define them as “uninteresting and not worth my time to watch or care”. I grew up skateboarding, which typically means that you end up not giving a hoot about much else, and at 41, I’m not particularly keen on taking on a new time-wasting hobby where I park my backside on the couch for even more than I already do.
Now, if we were talking strength athletics, I could show some actual interest!
I read where they drug test for the X-Games.
If you come back negative for cannabis, you’re disqualified.
“A third of Olympic and World Championship medals were not won cleanly…”
Yah… This is my shocked face… 😐
I haven’t watched a single event since professional athletes were allowe to compete. I didn’t watch that many previously though, I was too busy doing something like fishing, hunting, hiking or playing hockey or riding my bicycle when I was younger. Always said: I would rather be doing something than watching someone else doing something.
I agree completely. I’ve never understood the fascination with watching other people do stuff. That doesn’t do me any good.
I remember listening to a former Medical Director for the USOC shortly after the Ben Johnson debacle tell us flat out the athletes failed drug tests all the time…..whether or not that became public depended on whether or not it impacted the USOC and the particular sport financially.