Chinese Swimmers Twice Tested Positive for Drugs. They Kept on Swimming.

Perknose

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Three athletes who failed drug tests before the 2021 Olympics had tested positive for a powerful steroid several years earlier. They were not suspended in either incident.


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Maybe countries with such lax laws that allow for widespread chemical contamination from livestock to so affect so many accidentally in their population should not be allowed to participate in international sports competition until trace amounts of such chemicals stop turning up in tests.

 

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Moonbeam said:

Maybe countries with such lax laws that allow for widespread chemical contamination from livestock to so affect so many accidentally in their population should not be allowed to participate in international sports competition until trace amounts of such chemicals stop turning up in tests.

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Never thought of you as a Chinese apologist. I stand corrected. Thanks for the truth.

 

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Meghan54 said:

Never thought of you as a Chinese apologist. I stand corrected. Thanks for the truth.

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I think you missed the sarcasm.

 

Meghan54

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sdifox said:

I think you missed the sarcasm.

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With Moonie, one can be excused for missing sarcasm once in a while in all his holier-than-thou condescension.

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Meghan54 said:

With Moonie, one can be excused for missing sarcasm once in a while in all his holier-than-thou condescension.

🙂

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I normally skip the moonbeam posts. Every once in a while he'll make sense

 

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sdifox

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Meghan54 said:

With Moonie, one can be excused for missing sarcasm once in a while in all his holier-than-thou condescension.

🙂

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He didn't mention self hate, so it wasn't a serious post.

 

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Swimmers on drugs become high divers.

 

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