- Friday the 12th of June -

(12pm) 

 - The steroid olympics  -

Recently, a sports event was held that was quite unique. The reason? Participants in these games were allowed to use so called performance enhancing drugs. Organisers of the event wanted to show the benefits of using these drugs (none of which were illegal) in breaking records for speed, weight, or endurance.

The outcome: the majority of drug using participants did NOT break any records. In fact, most non-drug users won. 

There was one drug using swimmer who broke a record...by 0.07 seconds. So basically nothing. Notably, the swimmer was also using a specific swimsuit that is also banned in official sports events. 

So what was the point of this event? The organisers had hoped it would prove these performance enhancing drugs would give athletes a massive edge...but it seems they didn't. In which case, why do official sport events spend so much time, money and energy in banning these substances? We hear every time that Russia has been found using performance enhancing drugs and that they are cheating to win...but it now seems these drugs DON'T give much of a benefit, if any at all!

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Let's discuss this!

  - Friday the 12th of June -

(8pm) 

 - The steroid olympics -

Recently, a sports event was held that was quite unique. The reason? Participants in these games were allowed to use so called performance enhancing drugs. Organisers of the event wanted to show the benefits of using these drugs (none of which were illegal) in breaking records for speed, weight, or endurance.

The outcome: the majority of drug using participants did NOT break any records. In fact, most non-drug users won. 

There was one drug using swimmer who broke a record...by 0.07 seconds. So basically nothing. Notably, the swimmer was also using a specific swimsuit that is also banned in official sports events. 

So what was the point of this event? The organisers had hoped it would prove these performance enhancing drugs would give athletes a massive edge...but it seems they didn't. In which case, why do official sport events spend so much time, money and energy in banning these substances? We hear every time that Russia has been found using performance enhancing drugs and that they are cheating to win...but it now seems these drugs DON'T give much of a benefit, if any at all!

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Let's discuss this! 

  - Saturday the 13th of June-

(3pm) 

Let's discuss this!