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adespoton ,

What about things that may or may not constitute doping? Someone with some cold meds still in their system or who huffed oxygen before competition? Someone taking meds for a known condition that still had trace amounts in their system on the day?

There are many situations in which someone may have a foreign substance in their body that could provide advantage where they may be unaware that the substance is still lingering at competition time.

Not to mention, you’ll get people eliminating the competition by slipping them a mickey before the event….

P1nkman ,

Someone with some cold meds still in their system or who huffed oxygen before competition?

www.bbc.com/sport/winter-olympics/37703011 it’s already happened. She got some cold medicine from her doctor while in Italy.

acosmichippo ,
@acosmichippo@lemmy.world avatar

you can also get therapeutic exceptions ahead of time.

Viking_Hippie ,

How far ahead of time would you have to be, though? Colds and other common ailments are known for coming on quite suddenly and with little warning, after all…

chemical_cutthroat ,
@chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world avatar

I love how this will gain traction, but when we talk about banning the Dutch guy who literally fucked a child, everyone is like, “But they can change…”

acosmichippo ,
@acosmichippo@lemmy.world avatar

yes the offenses are disproportionate, but the problem with doping is it directly undermines the integrity of the sport. same with gambling.

chemical_cutthroat ,
@chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world avatar

How many kids do you get to diddle before you undermine the sport?

Crow_Thief ,

How does diddling kids affect competitive integrity?

chemical_cutthroat ,
@chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world avatar

Being forced to compete on the same team with or against a convicted pedophile would certainly distract me, and would likely degrade the audience’s experience as well. Seems like a bad thing for sports.

Chadus_Maximus ,

Judging by the fact that smash is still popular, quite a lot, actually.

FuglyDuck ,
@FuglyDuck@lemmy.world avatar

I’m all for banning the dutch guy.

also all for booing the dutch guy until he refuses to show his face again.

ZombieMantis ,
@ZombieMantis@lemmy.world avatar

Let’s ban the Dutch guy, and also the rest of the Dutch, until they reform their horrendous laws there, so that child rapist actually get some kind of punishment, rather than the tiniest slap on the wrist.

simplejack ,
@simplejack@lemmy.world avatar

Phelps was actually so good that he needed to slow his performance down with bongloads and Subway sandos so people wouldn’t assume he was doping.

ch00f ,

And Usain Bolt ate exclusively McDoods Nugs.

Irremarkable ,
@Irremarkable@fedia.io avatar

IIRC, the reason he gave is they're consistent pretty much anywhere in the world. Last thing you want before an event is food poisoning.

acosmichippo ,
@acosmichippo@lemmy.world avatar

with all the calories they’re burning they can afford it anyway. i vaguely remember phelps talking about his usual daily meals being like stacks of chocolate chip waffles, and not chicken breast with salad as you might expect.

Skua ,

It's both, not one or the other. Dude was trying to get 8,000+ calories a day and also huge amounts of protein at the same time

wesker ,
@wesker@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

His hair looks like it’s on upsidedown.

Viking_Hippie ,

This from the genetic freak that might as well have been designed in a lab for swimming who argued that trans women should be banned from competing to ensure “a level playing field”.

If you look up the word “hypocrite” in the dictionary, there’s a picture of Michael Phelps.

King3d ,

Nowhere in that article does it mention that he wants them banned, but go ahead and tell me I’m wrong somehow because level playing field equals being banned.

It sounds like he didn’t have an answer but thinks there should be some kind of system in include everyone.

Based on the first part of your comment I’m sure your response will be well thought out and free from derogatory terms.

Viking_Hippie ,

Nowhere in that article does it mention that he wants them banned, but go ahead and tell me I’m wrong somehow because level playing field equals being banned.

How else do you think he wants a level playing field to be achieved? Hobbling? Strapping weights to trans swimmers? Giving cis women a head start?

Sometimes things are so obvious that they don’t need to be explicitly stated. This is one of those times.

It sounds like he didn’t have an answer but thinks there should be some kind of system in include everyone

So some kind of “separate but equal” bullshit that implicitly labels trans women as not women? Doesn’t sound much better than outright bans tbh…

Based on the first part of your comment I’m sure your response will be well thought out and free from derogatory terms.

Based on your evasive pedantry and unearned condescension, I’m sure you’re going to take anything I say contrary to your arguments into account and not dismiss them out of hand for not coddling bad faith arguments 🙄

Akasazh ,
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If you look up the word “hypocrite” in the dictionary, there’s a picture of Michael Phelps.

I looked it up and found that dictionaries generally don’t contain pictures.

Viking_Hippie ,

You must not have the hypothetical edition I got 🤔

Akasazh ,
@Akasazh@feddit.nl avatar

Good save

Viking_Hippie ,

Thanks 😁

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