Dopeolympics

Posted by: BLT on 27 August 2004

As we are told by the tabloid press, all of the top athletes are on drugs and those that don't get caught are simply the ones with the best chemists. Why not, therefore, simply allow the athletes to take whatever they like and see how fast they can really go? Different athletes could be sponsored by various drug companies and instead of starting blocks they could have small mirrors, razor blades and snorting tubes.
Posted on: 27 August 2004 by Tim Jones
Paging Patrick Dixon!

Actually this is one of those things that brave souls sometimes ask in all seriousness. If sleeping in a hypoxic tent, or training at altitude (both of which IIRC stimulate the body to produce EPO) are perfectly legal, why is injecting your body with the same stuff illegal?

Tim
Posted on: 27 August 2004 by oldie
Sounds like a good idea to me ,but what about the smaller/poorer countrys,they wouldn't be able to afford the same chemists as say America,and with the uptake on University places in Chemisry and physics down in this country it would mean that we would never win anymore medals. not altogether a bad thing though in my humble opinion
oldie.
Posted on: 27 August 2004 by seagull
Is athletics the new Rock'n'Roll?

Run fast, die young (of a horrible drug induced organ failure) and leave a good looking corpse.
Posted on: 27 August 2004 by JonR
I have had similar thoughts to BLT's - why not? AT least then we'd have an officially sanctioned level playing field.

But then I had another thought (I'm good at this Big Grin).....where would it all end?? How long will it be before every athlete has overdosed on anabolic steroids and the like and they start looking like grotesque, over-sized body-builders??

....before they then keel over and die of course.....

JonR Frown
Posted on: 28 August 2004 by John Channing
I thought, from the title, this was referring to some sort of smoking competitiom. Wink
John
Posted on: 30 August 2004 by BLT
.....which is, in turn, reminiscent of the "Street Olympics" in the film "I'm Gonna Get You Sucka!" Events included; running with a stolen TV on your shoulder, stripping cars and mugging old ladies.
Posted on: 30 August 2004 by mykel
Watch out you dont "OG"

yea the Ghetto Olympics, while not PC made me howl.

regards,

michael
Posted on: 02 September 2004 by domfjbrown
quote:
Originally posted by Tom Alves:
"You've got four qualudes & you take two, how many have you got left?"
"None, I never leave any"


What the HELL ARE ludes? They're mentioned in "Up in smoke" as well and, since I was VERY young in the 70s when these were "in", I've never fathomed them???

I bet you any money you like, if you gave a runner some decent Crystal Meth and Speed they'd get a time under 8 seconds in the 100 metres...

I'm going to have to check out this "I'm gonna get you sucka" movie - sounds great!

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Posted on: 03 September 2004 by BLT
"I'm gonna get you sucka" is unfortunately not available on DVD at present. If you do get to see a copy, the highlights include the aforementioned Street Olympics, the "Pimp of the Year" competition, Antonio Fargas' (Huggy Bear) character leaving jail in his ultimate '70's clothes (perspex platforms filled with water and goldfish). Desperately silly, but great fun.
Posted on: 03 September 2004 by garyi
Whats the one where the drive across america in a van made from hash, I vaguly recolect that one, (I was 'at one' with the film if you get me)
Posted on: 03 September 2004 by BigH47
Qualudes methinks-some form of money from a Star Trek(OS) episode and a form of "medication".
A couple more cyclists banned from the Vuelta(sp).
That's sp for spelling not Spain.

Howard Big Grin