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Should drug-cheats be allowed to compete in the Olympics?


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#26 Suou

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Posted 08 July 2012 - 08:34 AM

I've always had a beef with sports drug regulations in general because in the alternate universe where I'm not a fucking fatass, I couldn't participate in any sport on any level really, because my narcolepsy medication is on the "Big No" list of basically every sport.

So if I trained my ass off for my entire life, I couldn't show that off in a big sporting event because I have to take medication to operate at what most people would call baseline. In the case of legit medical conditions especially, I think it's totally bullshit. But at the same time I guess I'm not surprised since I've seen people complain about amputee runners with prosthetic legs getting an unfair advantage.

Also echoing what someone else said, steroids aren't magical substances that go "poof" and suddenly you're a football superstar. There's still a lot of effort that goes into it.

I'd say let the people cheat their asses off.

#27 Butterball

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Posted 09 July 2012 - 07:58 PM

Juicing is the dark secret of athletics-- everyone successful, breaking records, etc. is doing it. It's like cheating on neopets-- everyone successful is doing it, or has done it, or has accepted "gifts" from people who do it (i.e. "my coach gave me something, I don't know what it was but I gained 20 lbs of muscle in a month" etc.). People who don't get left in the dust, and it's only the people who do it to obvious excess who get caught because the baseline is all cheaters.

Heck, even leaving out steroids the Olympics are just a contest of who can invest the most money in their athletes. Like baseball, the olympics have really lost all meaning. In the future, I think they will stop dividing events based on men and women (this is already been proposed, they keep stripping medals from women who do too well and accusing them of being transgendered) and give up on trying to police steroids: there'll be Low T, High T and Superhigh T divisions. Further down the road, just wait until gene therapy becomes a thing. China will be splicing together superhuman chimaeras for maximum performance. At that point all pretense will be abandoned and the olympics will just be a "show off your ubermensch" parade.

#28 ManhattanMaverick

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Posted 10 July 2012 - 10:28 AM

The whole point about the Olympics is the pure hard work of these men & women towards their sport. Cheating to obtain that just doesn't seem right. It takes away the beauty of the Olympics, that's just my humble opinion, but it's one that I believe in.

#29 HannahElizabeth

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Posted 13 July 2012 - 06:23 PM

I think athletes that have to cheat to win shouldn't be competing at all.


I can only concur with this.

It should be (no pun intended) a level playing field where Sports/exams and the like are concerned. I mean, cheating on Neopets is one thing; major sporting events quite another!

#30 pyke

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Posted 18 July 2012 - 06:40 AM

Give them their own competitions. We can have the Olympics for natural athletes and create the "Swolempics" for drug enhanced athletes. This way we get to see records smashed and everyone's happy!


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