tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2490938301727644791.post7430042018831208803..comments2024-03-29T05:30:08.030-04:00Comments on muscle milk is NOT a euphemism: oly lifting at the real olysmalevolent andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08925551683765561733noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2490938301727644791.post-34446753372963829402013-07-20T14:23:53.241-04:002013-07-20T14:23:53.241-04:00Andrea, I have also given this a lot of thought. N...Andrea, I have also given this a lot of thought. Not so much to doping, which is a complex issue that has actually affected at least one of my teammates at a time when doping was unheard of in our sport, but to things like equipment.<br /><br />I can think of certain sports, including my own, in which one type of suit made a difference of seconds, which seems inconceivable when hundreds of seconds are more the norm re. time differences. Once the first few athletes got that type of suit, everybody followed... suit ( ugh, I should let the funny person here be funny) and the momentary advantage was lost. <br /><br />Your argument about athletes who get away with doping during training being the ones know when to stop, brings to mind Lance Armstrong. It is a very good point.<br />A while back, a woman's whose blog I used to read, gave a very detailed description of the process through which fighters go, pre and post-weighing. In addition to the fact that TO ME it sounded really dangerous, I could not see what the point was, since every one of them practices the same deception. Going through absolute bloody hell to drop X nr. of pounds, courting an arrhythmia, weighing in and then regaining it all back in a few hrs or whatever, BEFORE the fight . WTF? When everybody else is doing the same thing, WHAT IS THE POINT?<br />The (wide) world of sports :) has got to come up with a better system. Oh and as an aside, I've heard POLITICAL pundits suggest that "we show the Russians what we're made of" by not attending the Sochi Olympics. Freakin' REALLY? AGAIN? We are going to use athletes who have worked their entire lives for this one moment to make a POLITICAL statement? The LAST president for whom I lost respect for this brilliant idea was, to my knowledge, no athlete. Let's hope that the current one, who has some experience with sports, will laugh at this ridiculous suggestion! K, off my soap box now. Mention the word "olympics" in a post and I'm all over that subject!<br />yeah, yeah, editing issues AGAIN...dlambhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16499771234654872541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2490938301727644791.post-17918950820232515072013-07-20T14:19:54.613-04:002013-07-20T14:19:54.613-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.dlambhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16499771234654872541noreply@blogger.com