In the wake of a Chinese doping scandal, Michael Phelps doubled down Monday on his support for tougher sanctions — including a lifetime ban for anyone who tests positive for a banned substance.

“If you test positive, you should never be allowed to come back and compete again, cut and dry,” Phelps said. “I believe one and done.”

The World Anti-Doping Agency and World Aquatics have acknowledged that 23 Chinese swimmers tested positive for a banned substance ahead of the Tokyo Olympics. The results were not made public until media reports surfaced this year, with both bodies accepting the Chinese explanation that the positive tests were caused by tainted food.

Nine of those swimmers won medals - several as part of relay teams - n Paris, leading British star Adam Peaty to gripe that the playing field was not even.

  • tourist@lemmy.world
    391·
    3 months ago

    What was that videogame, where if they caught you hacking, they wouldn’t ban you, they’d just put you in lobbies with other hackers?

    Imagine having an olympics where all the caught dopers compete against each other.

    But they’d probably, like, die or some shit. I’ll have to rethink this when I’m in my morning zone.

    Northern Lights is a great strain yall

    • Blackmist@feddit.ukEnglish
      7·
      3 months ago

      It would be highly unethical, but I do wonder how much faster you could go if you were allowed to take absolutely anything.

      See somebody run 100m in 8 seconds before their heart explodes. Watch a man lift a whole car before he shits his entire digestive system out of his body.

    • cmbabul@lemmy.world
      21·
      3 months ago

      I think that the problem there would be that so many eyes would follow a full on doping Olympics that that’s where the money would also go. And there’s no way you could spin that sort of league/competition to be amateurs only like the Olympics is so it would have to be professional which means the best athletes would go there because they’d fucking get paid

      • bitchkat@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        3 months ago

        The Olympics haven’t been amateur for at least 30 years. Not only do professionals compete, but the country olympic committees usually pay competitors for winning a medal.

    • TexasDrunk@lemmy.world
      13·
      3 months ago

      I don’t care about the Olympics themselves (I think they’re important, I am just not personally interested in catching more than highlights), but I would watch the shit out of the Dope Olympics. Dude on steroids and cocaine throwing a javelin ten miles? I’d pay to watch that.

      Of course I’d also watch the Pitch-O-Mat 5000 fire balls at Wireless Joe Jackson, so I’m not anyone’s target audience except possibly Futurama’s from 20-odd years ago.

    • I Cast Fist@programming.dev
      3·
      3 months ago

      That was GTA4

      I like the idea of Dopelympics. Let everyone participating be fully aware they’re in for the time of their (very short) lives

    • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.netEnglish
      8·
      3 months ago

      What was that videogame, where if they caught you hacking, they wouldn’t ban you, they’d just put you in lobbies with other hackers?

      Many games do that but GTA is easily the most popular/famous to do so. Though it hasn’t done that in a long, long time, that is how it worked at launch. You also got a little dunce hat, so you knew you fucked up.

    • BallsandBayonets@lemmings.world
      4·
      3 months ago

      If they over-dope to compete in the dopers olympics and die as a result, that’s not any different than driving without a seatbelt or motorcycling without a helmet and dying as a result. If you don’t want to risk death you can just not be stupid.

      • Chee_Koala@lemmy.world
        2·
        3 months ago

        True, I think a doping league is something we could try. We just have a year or 2 of ONLY doping league, then open the clean league and have 100 % controls. But not all doping is testable, currently…