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ilritorno t1_ivkqi32 wrote
Reply to comment by IamSkywalking in Djokovic’s team caught on camera as ‘bizarre’ secret drink video goes viral by rookie-mistake
If I had to give a ballpark figure for fun, I'd guess that 60-70% of professional athletes dope.
There was an anonymous test, I think it was done a while ago by the Athletics federation. 40% admitted to taking some banned substances in the last year or something like that. We can assume that it's an even higher threshold given the incentives and how cutthroat is the competition between elite athletes.
Edit: lol it was actually 57%
ilritorno t1_ivk8ivm wrote
Reply to Djokovic’s team caught on camera as ‘bizarre’ secret drink video goes viral by rookie-mistake
This is most likely nothing. Players are not glowing during tournaments, they micro-dose during training, knowing exactly what to do and how to do it not to test positive. Whoever thinks that a "secret drink" during a match is how you dope, doesn't understand what a doping program is. But are we supposed to care anyway with the joke that tennis antidoping is? When is the last time they caught anyone relevant? How many more miraculous diets articles are we supposed to read with a straight face? Or how many more ghost injuries with players disappearing from the tour?
ilritorno t1_ix02tbw wrote
Reply to comment by carlse20 in ‘I feel like a migrant worker’: Gianni Infantino hits out at World Cup criticism | World Cup 2022 by SounderBruce
In italian we say "gli estremi si toccano", "extremes meet". Boy, did they meet today in the figure of a swiss-italian-afro-arab-onceredhaired-freckled-gay-migrantworker.