Sunday Steroid Injection: Olympics dope

1.  US fencer Sada Jacobson felt rushed about peeing for doping control because Ex-President Bush was waiting to meet her.  (Edmonton Sun)

"I was in doping control and they said: 'Hurry up because President Bush is waiting for you'," she said. "That kind of surreal experience can only happen to you at the Olympics."     Former U.S. President George H. W. Bush stopped by the fencing arena to congratulate the American women for sweeping the medals in sabre yesterday.

2.  The #39 Chinese swim team entered the finals with the best (?doped) time.  Suspicious.  (Cleveland Leader)

3.  Malaysian 56Kg lifter Amirul Hamizan Ibrahim hopes for a medal, after sitting out doping suspension.  (The Star)

4. The Contender's star Joey Gilbert defines 'polypharmacy'.  (RGJ.com)

5. Interview with ex-GDR Olympic athlete Ines Geipel about doping.  (Duetche Welle)

6.  Steroids can contribute to the wear and tear on those young pitching arms  (Newsday)

7. Louisiana considers steroids in schools.  (The Advertiser)

8.  Just in: the Nigerians won the 2000 mens 4x400 relay gold.  (Afrika)

Comments

[The Name]

I posted this last night on an old Dara Torres thread, but let me go ahead and re-post it here.

In addition to Dara Torres [who, at 41, is just way, way, way off the end of the bell curve here - Rowdy Gaines said that she posted the second fastest split in the finals of the Women's 4x100m freestyle relay tonight - only the girl who swam the anchor leg for the gold-medal-winning Netherlands team was faster, and, as Gaines pointed out, Torres was gaining on her at the end of the race], another one you need to keep an eye on is Stephanie Rice, out of Australia.

About 14 months ago [March/April 2007], at the age of 18 [just before her 19th birthday], she set her personal best in the 400m Individual Medley, at 4:41.12.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephanie_Rice

Now fast forward to August of 2008, and she just shattered Katie Hoff's world record, in a time of 4:29.45.

For her to lose 12 seconds at the age of 14 or 15 would be eyebrow-raising; at the ripe old age of 20 [when most girls' careers are winding down], it just about defies the laws of nature.

[If any of you are not familiar with the sport, the 400m IM is far, far, far and away the most grueling event in all of swimming - not even the 1500m freestyle or the 200m butterfly can compare to the brutality of the 400m IM.]

PS: As for the hotness factor, I can't decide whether Dara Torres, at 41, is uber-hot, or simply nauseating, but Stephanie Rice is hot almost beyond description, which is gonna make the juice accusation a little tough to stick.

But trust the mathematics on this one: 20-year-old chicks just do NOT cut 12 seconds off their 400m IM times in one year - it's more or less mathematically impossible.

And concentrate on the musculature in Rice's thigh region - it doesn't look natural to me:

http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/gallery/0,22056,5030568-5012667-2,00.html

Also her neck:

http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/gallery/0,22056,5030568-5012667-6,00.html

Finally, Rice is getting that same gaunt, skeletal, lockjaw look in her face that Torres has acquired [just like Arnold, in Terminator 3, when he was on 'roids] - she seems to have lost all of her "feminine" body fat:

http://www.news.com.au/gallery/0,23607,5030596-5007150-14,00.html

http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/gallery/0,22056,5030568-5012667-7,00.html

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