News Flash: Weighlifters use steroid!! Daaaa!

McLaren said 40 positive doping tests were ''hidden'' in IWF records and that athletes whose cases were delayed or covered up went on to win medals at the world championships and other events.

(Add: shotputters, runners, skiers, cyclists, pitchers, swimmers, tennis players and javelin throwers to that list of doping cheaters) 

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Even bridge players cheat

A bridge player caught taking performance-enhancing drugs!

Wow chess star Geir Helgemo, I thought it was just tennis players, weight lifters, baseball players, football players, swimmers and 90% of Olympic athletes who cheated.

I guess the only 'clean' sport left is stamp collecting.

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The Olympics are a sham

Interesting article about the Ben Johnson debacle of the 80s. What it doesn't mention is that the Olympics is a sham and so is their testing regime. 

Not one athlete who steps up on that winner's podium hasn't cheated with the possible exception of chess players. Hyperbolic chambers, blood doping, steroids, uppers, downers - the list of pharmaceuticals and tricks is endless and constantly evolving. The Olympics is about making money - period.


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Google is making medical history, don't swallow the water in Rio, meat will shorten your life

Cool!

Google and pharmaceuticals firm GlaxoSmithKline are teaming up to develop bioelectronic medicine devices. They are hoping to shrink neuro implants - currently the size of a jelly bean - down to the size of a rice grain. The implants attach to a nerve and change the signals traveling through the nerve. Neuro implants are a promising new technique for treating chronic illnesses. 

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Experts warn Olympic athletes in Brazil about dangerous water pollution levels

OK. We've all heard stories about how Rio de Janeiro is a crime-ridden, disease filled, polluted city but just days ahead of the official start of the Olympics a study commissioned by the Associate Press found that the same water that the athletes will be swimming in is teeming with raw sewage and sky-high levels of viruses and bacteria.

Authorities in places like California freak out when pollution levels reach thousands of adenoviruses per litre.... the waters around Rio tested at 1.73 billion adenoviruses per litre! Yuck!

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Cut back on meat if you want a long, healthy life

This shouldn't be news to anyone but a Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital study has found that eating meat is not good for us.

So ditch tonight's hamburger, sausages and bacon and grab a handful of veggies or nuts instead, which of course you won't do because:

. "My grandfather lived until 150 and he ate anything he wanted"
. "I have a strong disposition so I don't need to watch what I eat or need to exercise"
. "Science is for the birds"
. "I hate veggies"
. "Meat tastes soooooo goooood!"
. "I'm going to die anyway, why not enjoy life"
. etc, etc, etc.

Read the story in the Telegraph