Doping: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
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- Doping scandals have cast a shadow over the Olympic Games. Until we eliminate drugs from sports, we should at least update our athlete promos.
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fun fact about the cinderella bit: in the brothers grimm version, her step-sisters actually cut parts of their feet off, so they can fit into the slipper, and prince charming only finds out when a small bird tells him to look at the blood in the shoe. even in fairy tales, people only get caught if there's an independent third-party regulating it
she also tries to run away from the prince twice, on the third night the prince has the halls covered in pitch so she can't run away and that's how she lost the shoe.
Also the birds have to tell the prince twice, because both step-sisters do the same trick. TBH not sure the prince was that great of a catch.
Fun fact: it's an allegory for virginity.
The prince and Cinderella did the deed (put the foot in the shoe), so any woman who bled on the first night (had blood in the shoe if it actually fit the foot in) would by his conclusion, not be Cinderella.
That Putin joke hits much harder now
Fr 😂
Truely does. This aged like wine
I just saw this, and when I heard the Putin joke I was gonna comment the same thing. Then I saw your comment. 😆
@@danieldp1931 we are brothers now
Looking back on these old episodes, things certainly do hit differently today
2:49 the complete story of the 1904 Olympic marathon was even crazier. The road was unpaved, leaving many runners inhaling dust every time they took a breath. There were only *2 water stations for the entire 25.4 miles (41 km) course* because the organiser secretly wanted to see what dehydration does to the human body.
The guy who rode for 11 miles in a car was Fred Lorz. He won the race, and was just about to be given the gold medal by Alice Roosevelt (daughter to then-president Teddy Roosevelt) before being exposed as a cheat. He then said that he did it as a joke and was banned from professional marathon for a year.
Another one of the runner was Thomas Hicks. He was given egg whites, brandy, and strychnine (rat poison, but can be used as a stimulant in miniscule doses) by his trainer who was riding beside him. He ended up so exhausted after inhaling all the dust he had to be carried across the finish line by his team and could have died had he not received immediate medical attention. Relevant to this topic, *Hicks was the first known instance of doping in modern Olympic history.*
Jon Bois moment
Another guy hadn't eaten for like 10 hours, ate weird apples off the track, fainted, and got 3rd place. WOW
Didn’t another guy (or maybe one already mentioned) get chased off course by dogs? All at one marathon 😕
Edit: removed something someone else already said
@@theheathbar123 that's what I said. (the second part)
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I'm rewatching this during quarantine and hearing the audience laugh threw me off for a bit.
Same here
Same though this is my first time watching. When things first came out my 12 year old self had no idea what was going on lmao.
@Johnson Jamse if done right, you can mitigate most of the damage.
I've been watching older episodes as well, and I so miss the energy of the audience. He made a Cuba Gooding Jr. joke one episode, and the audience was like 'Ohhh!', and Oliver said, "Why was that the thing in this story that upset you the most?" It was hilarious, and totally unscripted.
28.02.2021. Still in Quarantine, regards from Germany. 😁
They need to make an Olympics for athletes who use steroids.
Haha nice idea
SNL skit back in the 70's
That's just the normal Olympics.
Aside from the friends and families of the athletes, who would watch the Non-Steroid Olympics?
It should be one were *All* drugs are allowed, including LSD. It would be fun to watch who is the first to climb the flagpole during the 4000 m race =P
The look on that tester's face is so priceless
That is the face of a piss sniffer.
Adam Smith no, that is the face of a man who could find literally no other job.
It's amazing, he's a 0 on the gay scale and managed to find the only job in existance where that's a real problem.
Lmao I used to maintain direct eye contact when I would have random UAs in the army. They always got uncomfortable, it was great.
:I
The one inaccurate thing i can feasibly claim about this piece:
As a competetive swimmer, i can say with 100% certainty that *every* competetive swimmer wants a sandwich in the pool.
DESGUSTEN
One of my favorite childhood memories is when my cousin dropped a bologna sandwich in the pool and my uncle sat there with the pool net trying to fish it out, and muttered "I can't believe I'm spending my Sunday trying to fish a fucking sandwich out of my pool."
@@morgancarmichael2386 I was drinking! I almost spat it out onto my phone from laughing! Please add a warning!
Yes!!! I have eaten poolside. When you pretty much live in a pool, your mind starts sounding like seagulls from Finding Nemo.
For some reason, lightly Chlorinated sandwiches post event just hit different
The woman who said she felt like she was racing robots, Alysia Montano, once ran the 800 in a championship competition while 8.5 months pregnant. Her time was 2mins and 32 seconds. She ran it again while 5 months pregnant and her time was 2:21. Those would be strong 800 times for talented non-pregnant high school runners. Don’t worry it wasn’t dangerous for her to run while pregnant. She is incredible. Alysia Montano is and will always be a champion.
Racing Against Robots sounds like a cool band name.
lets make a band then. druma
papdi?
guitar
I wanna sing #cracpipes lol
Is it too late too get in on this
I love John Oliver because he knows the simple rule for getting to the bottom of every single issue: follow the money.
"Be better than God intended!"
OK, that's my new personal motto.
I prefer, “if you ain’t sinning at least a little, god died for nothing.”
@lil kfo
oh boohoo, so sorry you had to read the completely ordinary words of a trans person minding their own business
@lil kfo
if they said "my fitness goals tbh", you wouldn't give a damn. no one cares if they work out either, they're just making a normal reply to a comment they liked. real irritating that trans people exist and are able to speak their mind, i know.
also, is that a phrasing mistake or have you assumed i am trans? it intrigues me.
Exceed expectations is still my favorite, because it could be good or bad
The look on that tester's face is so priceless
"Another time, I got Regis Philbin to scream into a jar and had him inhale it."
That fucking killed me xD .
Fun Fact: The main guy in the parody at the end is Derek Klena. He's on Broadway right now in Anastasia. Super talented guy.
lucastarks I like him
Right now?
Or right now?
his last show is this sunday :(
AHHHH, I thought he looked like Klena! I just wasn't positive! Thanks for affirming this!
Well then, now I want to see the "Hot Pocket" episode of Top Chef.
It would be magical. Also, everyone must be high.
+Ollie Langdon I watch your videos!
I would watch the shit out of that even if I was on my death bed.
I think that John Oliver just gave them the idea for a new season. Top Chef: Hot Pockets.
They should have the chefs one episode make a gourmet hand-prepared Hot Pocket to reference this.
4:15 I drive a Cube. They're actually kinda fun to drive & decently roomy but damn is he right. They're about as unsexy as a minivan who cup holders are filled with half empty baggies of Cheerios.
Lol dad life
I work as a caregiver for the elderly...and that car honestly feels less sexual than I do after 8 hours of daipers and old people, if anything its the perfect car for teenage drivers! That car kills hormones!
You’ve inspired me to buy one after I get my license, cheers
Congratulations Mr. and Mrs. Pound, it's a boy! Did you choose a name? Father: Honey, I got this! 🤣
*D I C K P O U N D*
At least it is not Pound Dick.
@@hamydunn9183 It was if he served in the military. Private Pound, Dick.
@@hamydunn9183 it is backwards though!!!
Please. I once worked by a man named Richard Head. He was either clueless or defiant because his son was Richard Head Jr. Incidentally, both nice guys.
The guy they had playing the "athlete" is Derek Klena, a Broadway actor. Love him, but all I could wonder was: "WTF is he doing in a John Oliver video?"
Thank you miranda i love you! lol. Derek is very attractive 💋
Answer: acting. Aka his job.
I wanted to see Regis Philbin appear when he was mentioned during that ad parody.
MAKING MONEY
I thought he looked familiar! Thanks for saying who it was.
Beware the MAFIFA
It was sincerely funny when it made him remember about FIFA which got him instantly frustrated..
M who cares A ? And FIFA yayty
That's right, MAFIFA 3 is coming out.
+Louis Pre-order one now in the nearest syndicate.
@@FeyTheBin lol
A new one for imaginative explanations: A figure skater drinking out of the same glass as her grandfather who takes heart medication. Sure.
Does he dissolve the medication in the glass or does she expect the committee to develop a sudden irrational belief in homeopathy?
Just realized Brandon Schmidt's initials are B. S.
'the most powerful drug of all.....LOVE (CRACK).....'
As a swimmer, THERE IS NOTHING BETTER THAN DELIVERED FOOD TO THE POOL AFTER A WORKOUT
Sandwiches especially were nice!
I love the taste of chlorinated bread ༼ ºل͟º ༽
Hi I guess after practice, everything was chlorinated... You just kinda get used to it.
+LeiosOS ...it just became the ordinary. Now anything without chlorine tastes bland.
Ivan cheung haha, yeah. Not smelling chlorine all the time was also a weird experience.
I was about to go to sleep, but then I got a notification...
I was going to comment this exact same comment, but then I scrolled down...
+Austin Duffy I've commented the exact same thing on most of his recent videos lol, gotta be quick.
😊😊😊😊
It's morning for me.
I just woke up at 1:30 because I was hungry.
18:45 that was one hell of a line for the actor to deliver
If I'm not wrong the 1904 Olympic race was the best one. So many shenanigans...
Can't believe he didn't mention the fact that the winner of the race was high on rat poison lol
I say NAY to you, circadian rhythm! John Oliver is here.
While we're here, remember to say no to chlorophyll supplements.
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Ever since TH-cam was invented, I’ve had no circadian rhythm.
When it's 3:00 am but TH-cam is life
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Wut
Profile on point
"Had Regis Philbin scream in a jar and made him inhale it" oh man, I'm still reeling from that one.
That Now You See Me 2 bit is charmingly funny
*The Olympics - world's greatest science fair for applied organic chemistry*
_[Note: There's also a cute little sideshow with brawny people]_
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My solution is simple, we let actual robots compete with athletes.
+MyShreddedSanity
Better yet, why don't we just make Real Steel?
well, technically some people are genetically and biologically doped, so why stop doping? If everyone is at the pinnacle of what is biologically possible, it would be totally up to skill rather than genetic and biological differences
+Matteo Del Gallo of course, have some medical oversight so that the athletes don't keel over and die of overdose
That's the point, but an interesting fact is that the genetic advantage for africans or people of african origin is that since the human race originated in africa, in the continent you can find more genetic diversity
Perché dovrei essere razzista scusa, è la verità che se due atleti sono allo stesso livello di tecnica, ma uno ha un vantaggio genetico, come avere naturalmente più testosterone nel sangue, o dei polmoni più grandi, o un senso dell'equilibrio più spiccato e preciso, quello avrà un vantaggio. Certo, un atleta non può basarsi solo su quel vantaggio per vincere, ma è un aiuto. Tra l'altro non ho mai detto che fosse un vantaggio razziale ma GENETICO, e che visto che l'uomo origina dall'africa, lì è presente più varietà genetica.
Alysia Montaño is amazing. The fact she was able to compete against all this is inspiring. It reminds me of Jackie Joyner-Kersee who is also inspiring as well.
9:20 I'd have to argue that, "You remind me of my daughter, so let's get freaky on a magazine that has my face on the cover," is considerably more viscerally upsetting than Michael Phelps and his mother in any scenario, except perhaps one which would involve her breastfeeding him after his 30th birthday.
9 months late, but what the FUQ
@@aaljustaal1890 Don't forget- "What do you have in common with your father?" "Oh, golf, real estate and such." "And you Donald, what do you have in common with Ivanka?" "Well, I would like to say sex but-"
@@decasuffrage9021 I know where that's from but should I ignore the breastfeeding thing or. . .?
@@aaljustaal1890 best to, the origin can’t be goos
Did anybody listen to the part where he explained why just letting everybody dope is a bad idea athletes would be dying left and right due to the fact that you would need to take more and more and more just to be able to compete let alone get any type of advantage
Yes, but hilarious theories about how sports would be if everyone did it are still hilarious.
Better yet, add "drug tolerance" to the list of physical attributes: you've got cardio, endurance, weights, and then push your body to take more drugs while lowering your chance of total organ failure.
You could say that, but pro bodybuilding isn't drug tested and the best ever Arnold Schwarzenegger is still alive today.
And?
With PED's, as with ANY drug, there comes a point of diminishing returns. This belief that if you allow doping in sports that you would have these herculean athletes that only live to 30 is a farce.
You know it's a John Oliver video when there are likes when it was uploaded before the videos length.
Or you know, maybe some people just watched his segment on HBO already.
Maybe, but it's also likely that many just liked upon opening the video. He's that awesome, after all! People go in knowing it will be good! :p
You also know when you see his name in the title and him in the thumbnail
#SkylerHamiltonLives
Why can't people fathom the idea that fans already know they will like the video? It shouldn't be surprising to see Likes so soon. Now with dislikes, you must be very jaded.
2:50
This does not scratch the surface of the 1904 marathon. It was 100+ degrees out, there were only 14 or so finishers of the pool of 41, and the winner was given rat poison and brandy in the middle of the race.
That is wild!
Yeah I saw the Jon Bois video about that too
IN THE MIDDLE?!
Tyler Hamilton: I absorbed my dead twin; thus giving me different blood.
Athletics commission: Sir, you could've told us you were a vampire who'd fed before the race, and that would've been more believable. I mean you're obviously lying either way; but you weren't even trying that hard here.
Even though the athlete was lying in this case there are actually people who do exist who's blood DNA is different than saliva and skin. There was a mother who was told she was not her own children's mother and found out she was supposed to be a fraternal twin but absorbed her twin and l actually had two separate people in her body genetically / DNA wise. Weird shit happens lol not saying that athlete was telling the truth but it does happen.
@@kirstenornelas881 I mean it depends on the type of twin. I'm an identical twin, and our dna is the exact same, give or take a few activated gene expressions.
@Julie W. That's why I specified that I'm an identical twin. Absorbing my sister in the womb wouldn't have changed my dna
I mean, really, that's such a poor excuse as his brother has a show called ' Previous Events at Midnight with Skyler Hamilton'
He should have blamed his coach and team Dr.
'the most powerful drug of all.....LOVE (CRACK).....'
Jason Chatham : WAIT TILL U GET SICK 😷 .!!!!!! . ⚰️😳💔.....
I thought he'd say sugar.
@I. Wynn Wynn ima call bullshit on that chief.
Wish my name was Dick Pound. Sounds manly.
Sounds like where they put the dicks no one wants
It'd be interesting if such a pound existed, then I could get a new dick.
I met a guy named Dick Power's, now that was a real dick of a douchebag.
brother
Why are you guys talking about dicks/ No that there's anything wrong with that...hmmm porn name?
I have never noticed how much John blinks.
0:54 Try and blink with him xD
Really disappointed John didn't break out his "bodybuilding bro" routine at some point in this. I just love him hearing say "swole."
There are actually people who have the blood of one DNA type and the rest of their body of another DNA type due to two twins fusing, but they are ridiculously rare. They throw cops for a loop.
"Today's sophisticated DNA techniques are not subject to the same fallibility" www.biography.com/people/andrei-chikatilo-17169648
i think this can also happen in a different way with bone marrow transplants. the dna of the transplant can be found in the blood and can show up in tests. i doubt many pro athletes need bone marrow transplants but it is definetly a way to have 2 dna strains in your blood.
Don't twins have the same DNA though?
@@coalblooded Not fraternal twins as they are 2 separate eggs
@@Unknownsoldier740 Ahh, good point, forgot about those ones lol
Please do a brexit follow up soon, I'm American but very concerned with what's happening over there right now
Have any links for the people who don't have ("legal") access to it?
+TheICombaticon it's on youtube
+TheICombaticon Type this John Oliver UK votes to leave eu
Much obliged
stop listening to the main steam media. john oliver and all the other late night talk show hosts are the most dishonest people on this planet
But friendship was the most powerful drug of all, last time I checked
That line about Putin's leadership affecting the world hits a little bit harder after the 2022 war between Russia and Ukraine.
After the war? It still rages on.
The Skyler/Tyler Hamilton bit kills me every time
What if you're one of those people who can't pee when somebody is watching? Automatic disqualification or something?
You just keep drinking fluids until either you overcome your shyness or your bladder explodes.
Daniel Mocsny Well I guess but that could take a while. And wouldn't a larger amount of water in the blatter maybe thin out the drugs so it's harder to detect or something? Seems very inconvenient xD
It happened to me during the process of getting hired in my first job. A woman had to be there, as well. I did it, though, after four hours and three bottles of water.
+Dew PM for what Job do you have to do a drug test?
It was a call center. In my country it's not illegal to make HIV and drug test to potential employees.
17:30 OMIGOD IS THAT DEREK KLANA?!?! THE BROADWAY IN ME IS SHAKING.
I laughed so hard at that vanished twin excuse, I needed my inhaler
On a more serious note, I feel horrible for athletes who genuinely work their asses off to become the best, and they lose to folks that cheat by doping.
@13:39 With the name Dick Pound, he must have heard every joke possible.
The part about the British "asthmatics" was the best...
The Boys had a whole season basically dedicated to this topic
I may not be the first, but I sure am naked.
everyones naked underneath their clothes
Damn, you got kik?
Ayy, twinsies!
Pics?
"Please put some clothes on. Please!" ~ The Internet
I love watching old John Oliver videos, and seeing people I now recognize. I had to pause the video at the end, cause I was like, HOLY SHIT DEREK KLENA! I damn near started singing My Petersburg lol!
Thrillering. He said thrillering. Lmfao.
Love this show, love John.
5:02 the dude doing the test looks more like an athlete than the dude pissing
Okay, that Montano chick's story? That feels VERY slanted. She came in 5th in her chosen event. *5th*. I get it that the Russian athlete that won was doping, but the way they portrayed that human interest story, everybody that passed her was doping and she alone was doing the right thing.
That's dishonest as hell.
Precisely the reason to question her slander of Maranova.
She was saying that everyone that beat her was doping. Not just the Russians.
all the doped up athletes just hang with the group and sprint at the end not to raise suspicions ..........u're just 2 stupid 2 get that by yourself
but if the 4 that passed her all have been caught doping, wouldnt that be the truth... the way i understood it, all 4 had been doping and caught doing it...
the 3rd place runner (also russian) is getting a lifetime ban for doping along with the winner. so yeah, she woulda gotten a bronze at least. and not for nothing, but there was a 3rd russian in that race who was also later disqualified for doping.
How can you dislike those last week tonight shows. They're instructive and hilarious (even if you disagree you must be laughing to the stuff they come up with). Love it !
Time for part two 🙃
Minor Update: Savinova was eventually disqualified and had those medals stripped from her (15:00)
Justin Gatlin's excuse for doping: "A disgruntled masseuse rubbed steroid cream on me."
Up the Irons mate
Therese Johaug (a Norwegian cross country skier) got "the wrong kind of lip balm by accident" (despite the lip balm having a massive label on it that says it's considered doping).
That's aside from over 90% of the Norwegian skiing team having asthma... They just obviously went and picked the sickliest people who have the most trouble breathing for this demanding endurance sport, and they need to use asthma medicine, which would otherwise be a doping infraction if it weren't for their condition...
You know someone cares about their message when a 20 minute TH-cam video doesn't have any ads. So rare, so inspirational, I could cry.
The Brandon story at the end 🤣
LOL “Schuyler Hamilton”
Werk! 😆
I was expecting a piece on Brexit.
He talked at length about it in the full episode.
In the piece about doping? You are a special one.
You realize this isn't the entire episode, right?
Yeah I saw the piece on Brexit now. Thanks.
www.ew.com/article/2016/06/27/john-oliver-brexit-vote-last-week-tonight
"Be Better than god intended"
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That's my new motto!
the 1904 olympic marathon is way more wild than just a guy riding in a car
"Get focused and get ready to pee." That's my whole life right there.
10:00 Ironically, where I live, "Araf" means "slow".
It means "Crap" where I live :D
and WADA in hindi means promise ...
It means "I know" in Arabic
Mohammad Ebrahim "A'ref" in Arabic not "Araf"
Welsh gang
and now for my daily 'feel like a dumbass' moment: this whole time i thought "Virginia Slims" was a type of beef jerky
😂
Reminds me of my childhood pinewood derby. I played by the rules and got second every year to someone who was clearly cheating. It really does feel pointless to compete against people not playing by the rules.
I imagine roll when Dick Pound was in elementary school played out similar to the Bigus Dickus skit.
The guy who got caught with someone else's blood could at least have come up with a better excuse, like "I'm a vampire"
“I mean as a kink! I *know* I am not Dracula!”
XD
This episode aged like fine wine
I SCREAMED WHEN I SAW DEREK KLENA SKKSKSK
I was shot but then this notification.
Just like a Cinderella story - you use magic to get into places you shouldn't be in and quickly run away before the magic can be discovered.
That Vladimir Putin joke hits different in March 2022 😬😂
What happens if you can't pee with someone watching lol
time to learn
This is one dope video.
that "twins body absorbed into him thing" is (for real) a quirky explanation for a real thing. Twin-twin syndrome can lead to one twin dying and getting degraded inside the mothers womb while the other survives. The other twin doesn't absorb anything, however, and would anyway have the same blood type xD
The twin that absorbs the other can actually wind up with duel blood cell populations. Basically two blood types. This kinda requires a lot of things to happen for duel blood types to occur, so the athlete is probably lying.
@@partlycloudy7707 indeed. It's a poor excuse because it is pretty easily (dis)provable, since the two embryos would necessarily share a mother, that relationship would be detectable by genetic analysis.
@@partlycloudy7707 The athlete was indeed lying. He eventually struck a deal with USADA to help expose Lance Armstrong, and became somewhat of an antidoping advocate.
20:06 IE literally the thing Cinderella's sisters did in the original German story, except their method was a lot more dangerous than taking pills.
Cutting off their heel and their toes, right?
It's unrelated, but when I was a kid I watched an anime adaptation of Cinderella that in general pretty PG, but near the climax when the stepsisters failed the shoe fitting test, the stepmom referenced the original story when she shouted "Do I have to cut you two's toes off?"
Thank you for the video! All of you friends are super awesome! Oh, moments in this video are sad.
What's the name of the cute guy who did the skit at the end?
Derek Klena
Brandon
Hot ;D
Derek Klena
thats what im saying!
Last time I came this early, the UK was still in the EU
they still are
How original.
+Michael Panggabean Uh, think you might've missed some big, recent news...
Modnar47 I guess you really don't understand how the EU referendum, and process to leave the eu work.
leaving EU takes like a year. Its not like UK's dick was in Eu vagina and they just pulled.
There is still a lot of legal work
The St Louis marathon where that dude got in a car is crazier than John had time to get to.
Jon Bois has a video about it. It's uh... *pretty good*
Also puppet history did a video on it, super hilarious story
6:13
As a Dutchie, I still cannot believe John just dissed the bikes.
The fuck you talking about John Oliver, Now You See Me 2 was fucking awesome
You know damn well nobody said at the end of Now You See Me, "I sure as hell hope they make a sequel to that!"
+BigBadJerry Rogers agree. But Now you see me 2 was better than the first one. So at least I am happy they made another one.
The first one [made me feel] so stupid. Therefore I hate it. -fixed
the fact that they didn't call it "now you don't" was a tragedy
It shook should have been NOW YOU DONT.
All of you commenting numbers have sad, sad lives.
True words, brother.
This is the earliest I've ever been to LWT :)
I woke up at 1:30 because I was hungry.
666th like
I have 1 penis and 2 balls.
All of you commenting All of you commenting numbers have sad, sad lives. have sad sad lives
John is secretly Eliza Schuyler-Hamilton confirmed
I related so hard to the Now you see me 2 joke...serious buyer's remorse.
Could we have a video on the importance of the Olympics, or organized sports in General? What benefit does society gain by having athletes from all over world meeting up in an appointed country, who had to spend millions of dollars just on the stadiums and infrastructure alone to host these events? Not to mention the controversy about how these countries bid to host the games. Not to mention the millions of dollars spent by the competing countries on athlete training, gear, and matching uniforms. I suppose people will say that it's all done in the name of some nebulous ideal like nationalistic pride or the joy of the game, but surely there are better ways to celebrate your country than saying that an athlete from your nation jumped higher than anyone else or ran faster than anyone else in a given year.
In my opinion, we should hold the Olympics on some sort of Jurastic Park type island with a massive thunderdome structure in the middle with bleachers all around the inside.
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It's entertaining. It's that simple a lot of us just like to see the best from each country play a game to see who's best.
If that really is the case, why should countries spend so much of taxpayer's money on something only meant for entertainment?
its for propaganda and national pride...people waste their money on far worse things like drugs and alcohol and gambling.
Pity about the Russian athletes. That's some bad shot. Also are there any major clean sprinters from the US at all? You got Flo-Jo, Marion Jones, Carl Lewis, Tyson Gay, Maurice Greene, Justin Gatlin, all dirty.
Bad *shit
Allyson Felix comes to mind. There are certainly others that haven't been caught up in doping scandals.
havent been CAUGHT up in doping scandals
Exactly :P
It would make sense that the top athletes were the one's doping up and outperforming the others, so any legitimate athletes would likely be far behind those that doped.
There was a really sad doping story this year (2022) at the Winter Olympics - a 16 year old Russian athlete tested positive and there was so much stuff about how a CHILD could be put in that situation
I work for an enforcement agency and sometimes I have to wait lawyers outside the bathroom when then come to deliver leniency statements... I now see some have it far worse.
The 1904 Olympic marathon was actually hilarious, aside from the car thing, there weren't the same doping rules then as there are now, so there was one of those, and there were some people who got chased by dogs, really it was pretty funny.
Meh. If it's such a big deal, just permanently ban the athletes caught doping.
If that doesn't stop people, then nothing will and you may as well just let it happen.
Due to low risk of getting caught it's still worth doping for the chance of big money & fame
Not if athletes were permanently banned. The issue at the moment is that these people only get temporarily suspended so it is worth it to continue doing it or to at least try it until you get caught.
I don't think you understand just how easy it is to get away with steroids or doping. If you simply follow a coach's orders and take the right doses at the right times with masking agents, it's literally impossible to be caught. And better yet, if you know when tests are coming, which athletes often do, you can take doses putting you well over what's physiologically possible without worrying about being caught because of the short detection time of many drugs. And some newer drugs don't even have reliable testing. For these reasons, doping and steroids have become a standard at the top level of competition, it's just the stupid or careless that get caught.
Okay dude if it's so easy to get away with it all the more reason those caught should be forever banned. Not only are they doping, but they are apparently too fucking stupid to get away with something that is supposedly very easy.
+Nick Panchakg b
I love the way that John Oliver explains the news. His jokes really cut.
15:13 Ummmmm... you feel bad for her until you hear she finished *_5th_* . Were the second, third, and fourth placed runners doping as well?
They probably were and she probably was as well. Remember she said she was leading for most of the race against the girl who was on drugs. If she really was natural that would not have happened
@@mustang8206 I doubt that, man. She is skilled.
Randomly stumbled across this comment and figured it might be worth doing some cursory research.
Officially Montano has now finished 4th (since the 1st place winner was officially DQd) with an official time of 1:57:93.
By comparison:
3rd place was 1:57:59 by Pamela Jelimo of Kenya
2nd was 1:57:53 by Ekaterina Poistogova of Russia
1st was 1:57:23 by Caster Semenya of South Africa
The disqualified time was 1:56:19 by Savinova and ANOTHER Russian runner was also DQd who finished 9th.
Montano's time was a fraction of a second behind gold - and an even smaller fraction of a second behind the podium, so saying she only finished 5th without context for the difference between 5th and 1st really makes it sound like she's not a good athlete. That's 5th in the WORLD - she had to pass a qualifying heat AND pass semifinals to get there.
It also really puts Savinova's doping into context (she's since admitted to doping herself) when you see the difference between her time and everyone behind her. That 1:56:19 wasn't just faster than the competition, it was (at the time) the world record.
Its not just the Olympics, all sports. But honestly, as a viewer, i enjoy watching athletes compete. Ill never know what is going on behind the scenes which is relieving and frightening at the same time