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Dels · Post 11-08-24 01:49

I really thought the women's 4 x 400m relay world record was going to get broken, got my hopes up for nothing.

Duncan!! · Post 11-08-24 01:58

Maybe if they were pushed a bit it would have happened. by Miss Sydney's 2nd leg blew them all away

Dels · Post 11-08-24 10:27

Aye. It's just that I have been waiting a long time for that world record to be broken. It is held by the Soviet Union from 1988, and I think its well dodgy, lol

Duncan!! · Post 12-08-24 01:05

Ya think? lol

Lupo Pazzesco · Post 25-08-24 09:16

Not as dodgy as the Women's 800m world record, that's stood since 1983!

Liam · Post 25-08-24 12:05

It's the women's discus records that look the dodgiest to me. Look at the state of this list.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discus_throw#Women

Duncan!! · Post 26-08-24 01:00

Hmmmmmmm

Tangerine Romanista · Post 26-08-24 13:04

A timely article on the BBC website - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/ar ... lrn9re3z5o

And a reminder that it wasn't just the East of Europe that doped and in many ways the athletes themselves were the victims.....

"These are all harmless drugs. All athletes take them. It's really nothing special."

That was what German heptathlete Birgit Dressel, who finished ninth in the 1984 Olympic Games, once told her mother.

Sadly, those words couldn't have been further from the truth. On 8 April 1987, after taking medication to help with a bad back, Dressel's body went into allergic-toxic shock, leading to rapid organ failure.

After two days of agony in Mainz hospital, she died at the age of 26.

Her autopsy revealed traces of more than 100 drugs in her system, including anabolic steroids that she had been taking for years, while her medical history showed she had been injected with at least 40 different substances throughout her career, with one practitioner alone administering 400 injections.

verno · Post 29-08-24 00:44

Jeez, poor woman.

Tangerine Romanista · Post 29-08-24 12:44

verno wrote: ↑
29-08-24 00:44
Jeez, poor woman.

Indeed.....the narrative very rarely depicts drug users in sport as victims, but for many of those in (often) state sponsored schemes, that's pretty much what they were.....

verno · Post 05-09-24 21:34

I remember a lot of that from when I was a kid. Anyone from behind the Iron Curtain was suspect. Grim.

Duncan!! · Post 06-09-24 01:38

Yep. Growing up in the 70's and 80's all we heard was that the commies were cheating.

Lupo Pazzesco · Post 09-09-24 10:11

That sounds like a plot from an episode of the 1980s set The Americans!

Duncan, as a Cowboys fan, what do you think of the biggest NFL contract in history being handed to your QB?

In other NFL news, I watched the Redzone coverage of the early KOs for about an hour and I'm still buzzing now........

Oh, the Seahawks won as well.

Duncan!! · Post 10-09-24 01:28

Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too much money for Dak who has won exactly 2 playoff games.

I was hoping my cousin would get a chance at QB, you know since his record as a starter for Dallas is 5 and 1

Lupo Pazzesco · Post 11-09-24 11:24

Duncan!! wrote: ↑
10-09-24 01:28
Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too much money for Dak who has won exactly 2 playoff games.

I was hoping my cousin would get a chance at QB, you know since his record as a starter for Dallas is 5 and 1

Is Ed Woodward in charge of the wages department at the Cowboys?

Your cousin is obviously a skilled QB, you must be proud?

Duncan!! · Post 11-09-24 22:36

Yeah, and he should be starting...But Dak makes 60 mill so that ain't happening

Lupo Pazzesco · Post 16-09-24 07:54

Seahawks won in overtime and the Cowboys got their ass handed to them on home turf!

Duncan!! · Post 17-09-24 01:20

Yep. So glad they paid Dak 60 million...............

Oh and to continue the great football weekend, Purdue got beat at home by Notre Dame 62-7, their worst home loss ever.