In the wake of a Chinese doping scandal, Michael Phelps doubled down Monday on his support for tougher sanctions — including a lifetime ban for anyone who tests positive for a banned substance.
“If you test positive, you should never be allowed to come back and compete again, cut and dry,” Phelps said. “I believe one and done.”
The World Anti-Doping Agency and World Aquatics have acknowledged that 23 Chinese swimmers tested positive for a banned substance ahead of the Tokyo Olympics. The results were not made public until media reports surfaced this year, with both bodies accepting the Chinese explanation that the positive tests were caused by tainted food.
Nine of those swimmers won medals - several as part of relay teams - n Paris, leading British star Adam Peaty to gripe that the playing field was not even.
I don’t care about the Olympics themselves (I think they’re important, I am just not personally interested in catching more than highlights), but I would watch the shit out of the Dope Olympics. Dude on steroids and cocaine throwing a javelin ten miles? I’d pay to watch that.
Of course I’d also watch the Pitch-O-Mat 5000 fire balls at Wireless Joe Jackson, so I’m not anyone’s target audience except possibly Futurama’s from 20-odd years ago.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAdG-iTilWU
I’m all for it. However, the show was stolen by Dennis Miller’s hair. It’s a shame about him. I remember him mercilessly mocking pretty much every politician and being ever so slightly left leaning when I was a kid. The older he got the worse he got. He went from slightly left leaning, to calling himself libertarian while supporting neocon ideals, to whatever the hell happened a few years ago.
Futurama is still running, as i found out last week.
It is! And the new ones are fine. I happen to be partial to the first few seasons.
One can say the first few seasons are very fine
The modified howitzer?