Paris Olympics 2024

[BruidheanChaorthainn]

Great interview Michael Johnson talking about handing back one of his medals.

The two other team members campaigned to keep there’s when the forth member of the relay team was caught doping.

Tells you the attitude towards the whole thing.

[Cheasty]

@BruidheanChaorthainn

Great interview Michael Johnson taking about handing back one of his medals.

The two other team members campaigned to keep there’s when the forth member of the relay team was caught doping.

Tells you the attitude towards the whole thing.

Where is the interview?

Who was the doper? Antonio Pettigrew (RIP)?

[BruidheanChaorthainn]

Yes that’s him.

[BruidheanChaorthainn]

https://twitter.com/cleans_letsrun/status/1815453972473225510?s=46

They could start by booting cycling.

[Mac]

Any chance this could all fuck off to the Drugs in Sport thread?

[myboyblue]

Report the posts

[Cheasty]

Eric Caritoux apparently won the 1984 Vuelta A Espana clean. Nobody could believe it and it became a sensation within the peloton. It was in Willy Voet’s book. He mentioned it because it was so remarkable that such an occurrence could happen, it was simply assumed that a clean rider could not win.

Greg LeMond might have been clean because he was the most naturally talented of any of them by far. Then he was blitzed when EPO came on the scene.

[Mac]

I see that as a cowardly way out

[BruidheanChaorthainn]

@Cheasty

Eric Caritoux apparently won the 1984 Vuelta A Espana clean. Nobody could believe it and it became a sensation within the peloton. It was in Willy Voet’s book. He mentioned it because it was so remarkable that such an occurrence could happen, it was simply assumed that a clean rider could not win.

Greg LeMond might have been clean because he was the most naturally talented of any of them by far. Then he was blitzed when EPO came on the scene.

It’s sad in a way when no medals is arguably a good Olympics because it means you aren’t doping.

[Batigol]

Every weightclass in the (men’s) boxing, except 80kg, has an Uzbek fighter as one of the top 3 favorites. If the odds translate to medals, Uzbekistan would win 3 golds, 2 silvers and a bronze just from men’s boxing

Their 80kg fighter is 7th favourite too, so it’s not like he’s a complete no-hoper

[BruidheanChaorthainn]

@Batigol

Every weightclass in the (men’s) boxing, except 80kg, has an Uzbek fighter as one of the top 3 favorites. If the odds translate to medals, Uzbekistan would win 3 golds, 2 silvers and a bronze just from men’s boxing

Their 80kg fighter is 7th favourite too, so it’s not like he’s a complete no-hoper

Maybe you should set up an Olympics betting thread and I’ll see up a doping in the Olympics thread.

[myboyblue]

Hardly any point engaging. He’s been on full tilt since limerick were bet. He’s stated before he gets off on being a nuisance and pissing posters off.

[Raylan]

[myboyblue]

[flattythehurdler]

@TheUlteriorMotive

Casting aspersions on a young Irish woman with no evidence at all is disgusting. She is not doping. If she reaches a podium it will be in Ireland’s greatest sporting achievements and moments of all time. If she wins gold it’s the greatest.

I disagree entirely with the last part. Sonya O Sullivan was already there. Robbed by cheats. Should be given gold.

[BruidheanChaorthainn]

@TheUlteriorMotive

You watch horseracing which is rotten to core with doping and general cheating. The horses don’t choose to dope and it often kills them. It’s an industry based on blood, money, no morals and run by Middle Eastern despots.

Casting aspersions on a young Irish woman with no evidence at all is disgusting. She is not doping. If she reaches a podium it will be in Ireland’s greatest sporting achievements and moments of all time. If she wins gold it’s the greatest.

I only saw this now.

Sorry it won’t be.

If one of them gets gold it’s means they are no better than lance armstrong.

If you are on that podium you are doping.

[BruidheanChaorthainn]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/07/23/paris-olympics-china-doping-wada/

It’s like that brilliant Tommy tiernan sketch about Galway hosting the Olympics.

[TheUlteriorMotive]

Paris Olympics: Athletics track maker promises a fast surface

The Olympics used red cinder until 1968 and the Mexico City games, which instead featured a polyurethane “Tartan” track, so-called because 3M, which made it, also made Scotch tape.

[BruidheanChaorthainn]

Pity they don’t make an effort to track the dopers

[backinatracksuit]

Any chance we’d ban @BruidheanChaorthainn from this thread for spamming