I don’t know. While I do think it’s a little funny to have the people who openly admit to “cheating” lose, we’re sort of forgetting that there are different ways to have an edge here.
Like if you’re a world record holding olympic athlete you’re not competing on the same terms as an amateur college athlete, your training regiments can’t be the same, and the resources available to you are not the same.
Sure, there is a realistic discussion about “who actually has the resources to compete” but this event ain’t that. These drugs aren’t cheap and just doing them isn’t enough, you still need access to equipment or places to practice or coaches or whatever.
Okay but one of the people he beat is literally a college athlete.
Sure some of the retirees and semi pros have a good chance of training with good facilities, but there’s a reason they’re semi pros or retired.
I’m not even asking you to have sympathy with anyone here, but “Record holding olympic athlete beats retiree and college athlete” isn’t really a headline is the thing.
Sure, but that’s not the headline. The headline is “record holding Olympic athlete doesn’t do drugs, wins a competition run by someone who thinks doing drugs means you can beat a record holding Olympic athlete”
It’s people who train to their peak, and are better at hiding their particular edge, because the methods of cheating always outstrip the methods of testing. Not that Hunter is nessecerily cheating, but like, we won’t know for another 10 years.
To be fair these are all probably people at their peak. If I trained to my peak it woudl not be able to compete at the olímpical level. Life is just not fair like that
It is interesting though to see that even steroids don’t bridge the gap. Turns out all those people who told me that they don’t actually make you super buff they just help you do more training were right all along.
I hope they keep doing this and also keep losing to people who actually train to the peak
I wanted to see roided out monstrosities do superhuman feats, i didn’t want to see disciplined genetic abnormalities do superhuman feats
care ye not for the dreams of those who lack physicality, lack discipline, and yet love drugs and destroying their bodies
I don’t know. While I do think it’s a little funny to have the people who openly admit to “cheating” lose, we’re sort of forgetting that there are different ways to have an edge here. Like if you’re a world record holding olympic athlete you’re not competing on the same terms as an amateur college athlete, your training regiments can’t be the same, and the resources available to you are not the same.
Sure, there is a realistic discussion about “who actually has the resources to compete” but this event ain’t that. These drugs aren’t cheap and just doing them isn’t enough, you still need access to equipment or places to practice or coaches or whatever.
Barry Bonds still had to swing a narrow piece of wood at 90mph balls to break home run records.
Okay but one of the people he beat is literally a college athlete. Sure some of the retirees and semi pros have a good chance of training with good facilities, but there’s a reason they’re semi pros or retired.
I’m not even asking you to have sympathy with anyone here, but “Record holding olympic athlete beats retiree and college athlete” isn’t really a headline is the thing.
Sure, but that’s not the headline. The headline is “record holding Olympic athlete doesn’t do drugs, wins a competition run by someone who thinks doing drugs means you can beat a record holding Olympic athlete”
Olympic athletes don’t have more resources than the average Person tbf. They work normal jobs and finance themselves.
It’s people who train to their peak, and are better at hiding their particular edge, because the methods of cheating always outstrip the methods of testing. Not that Hunter is nessecerily cheating, but like, we won’t know for another 10 years.
To be fair these are all probably people at their peak. If I trained to my peak it woudl not be able to compete at the olímpical level. Life is just not fair like that
It is interesting though to see that even steroids don’t bridge the gap. Turns out all those people who told me that they don’t actually make you super buff they just help you do more training were right all along.