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The Olympics is going to be interesting.... (feddit.org)
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[–] 38 points 1 year ago (6 children)

The US is going to take gold in every event. Mostly because other countries won't be allowed to compete or won't want to.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I've always believed that all Olympic countries take part in some kind of enhanced performance drug program.

    The poor countries try it and they are easily identified and disqualified

    The mid tier countries do it cautiously and sometimes get away with it

    The rich countries like the US do it all the time but they are so sophisticated that they can't be caught.

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  • [–] 39 points 1 year ago

    Rich countries have highly developed sports infrastructures that allow better detection of talents and training the talents in the best possible conditions. That is probably already enough to explain the difference in results. No need to look for some drug conspiracy. If your city doesn't have the money to build a swimming pool, you'll never have swimming champions from there.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago

    Russia, a powerhouse, had a ridiculously complex scam going and even they were caught.

    They aren't rich in the normal sense, but they are powerful and secretive, so I think they provide a valid counterexample.

    Does it go on? I'd believe constantly. Does it get found out? Every time, albeit there's always a short window of success. Do more powerful nations have more success at cheating? Yeah, since the smaller countries can't cheat as well.

    But not a conspiracy, just correlation, I think.

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