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Olympics Tokyo 2021 - sport
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I have little doubt that most of them were on the gear at some stage throughout their career. A bit like pro cycling in the Lance Armstrong era. Some were just better at masking than others.
That said I want to believe Usain was clean; despite my suspicions about the sport as a whole I think he was.
got a funny story about the carribean.
I was in a bar in Trinidad watching a West Indies V South Africa test in the late 90's.
A Trinidadian hears me order a beer and asks me if im American?
I go 'nah mate, im from the greatest cricket playing nation on earth'
he laughs and goes 'you pretty white for a West Indian mon. Do you know Shane Warne?'
and I go 'yeah, he lives in my street. sometimes he feeds my kangaroo for me. He's a hell of a bowler, but he's a bit of a *smile* head'
bloke falls over laughing and calls for quite in the bar and announces
'he listen up ..... OOOOrstralian Mon here has a kangroo and Shane Warne feeds it, but hes a deeeeeeeeeeck haaaaaaaaiiiiiiiiddddd'
whole bar pisses themselves and start singing and dancing to 'Shane Warne a deeeeecckkkk haaaaiiiiiidd' chant.
The carribean is a great place. Everyone is pretty much like Usain Bolt, except slow
its a bit cruel, but inevitable to speculate,
but the Nigerian sprinters look like condoms full of walnuts at these games
Nigeria has more Africans than any other country. And they're all West Africans, where all the fastest people are descended from.
Still, a million bucks goes a long, long way there.
Goes back to my earlier discussion point. You try and block it out of your head. But how much of what we are watching at the Olympics is clean at all?
Like I said, performance enhancing substances have made it to Africa now. The top three Kenyan male 1500m place getters at their trials were scrubbed for drugs. There’s much discussion of the Ethiopian women who have come post Turunesh Debaba. Her records were insane in their own right and there was never much doubt about her legitimacy when she dominated her event group. But the next generation began smashing her and her records like it was chemicals vs humans. Progression in the event just doesn’t normally come quite that quickly.
The Morrocans were going toe to toe with the East Africans in the 1980s -2000s, but a heap of them got scrubbed for performance enhancers and they’ve not really featured prominently since.
Yep, coaching. Not as much as I was pre-children of my own. But still keep my hand in it.
211 million people in Nigeria. Will overtake the US for population before long.
I bet you know my uncle.
Yep and she’s a moral to get another one in the medley. Just a matter of the colour.
Titmus got in early and got the limelight but McKeon female swimmer of the meet.
Cate Campbell buried all her doubts in that last swim. Seemed to be carrying the baggage from Rio disappointment. Others had gone past her individually but to pull out that swim as her swan song was definition of redemption.
Great run by Steve Solomon in his 400m heat. You might not remember but he made the final at the 2012 Games as a 19-year-old. Has had injury troubles but looked strong and smooth. Ran a PB and qualified 4th-fastest.
What a great swim by all four girls.
Gee it was a great race. I think we take our swimmers for granted, especially our female swimmers.
