Sprint Canoeing at the Summer Olympic Games Paris 2024

[De_Gambassi 1,223]

29 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

I would see whether or not that road would take illegal ways according to French law and so if theoretically she could use it, but I'm on my work laptop now and not feeling like risking that Google search  

I won't either and I'm on my personal phone.

God knows, i wish there was a définitive way to determine the origin of a drug found. I'm so fucking tired of these "the 5 terminal cancer grandma pastas were fed to the family dog of the neighbor which actually happen to be the father of my dead brother' and tada, see, I'm clean.

[heywoodu 15,145]

16 minutes ago, De_Gambassi said:

I won't either and I'm on my personal phone.

God knows, i wish there was a définitive way to determine the origin of a drug found. I'm so fucking tired of these "the 5 terminal cancer grandma pastas were fed to the family dog of the neighbor which actually happen to be the father of my dead brother' and tada, see, I'm clean.

Yep. One of the few cases where I am at least more open to believing it is in the case someone had sexual relations with a person who can prove they had a certain substance in their body.

 

Not saying that would or should absolve the athlete of any punishment or something like that, I honestly don't know (and in the end the athlete is still the one responsible), but at the very least I am a little more inclined to believe a story like that (since it's a normal thing for people to do and one can quite easily imagine bodily fluids transmitting substances to some degree) than the cancer medicines that fell in the pasta sauce or grandpas making desserts on the same board they cut their medicines on and bringing it 200km to their grandchild and tadaaa, that explains the doping test.

Edited July 18 by heywoodu

[De_Gambassi 1,223]

22 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

Yep. One of the few cases where I am at least more open to believing it is in the case someone had sexual relations with a person who can prove they had a certain substance in their body.

 

Not saying that would or should absolve the athlete of any punishment or something like that, I honestly don't know (and in the end the athlete is still the one responsible), but at the very least I am a little more inclined to believe a story like that (since it's a normal thing for people to do and one can quite easily imagine bodily fluids transmitting substances to some degree) than the cancer medicines that fell in the pasta sauce or grandpas making desserts on the same board they cut their medicines on and bringing it 200km to their grandchild and tadaaa, that explains the doping test.

Theoretically, yes, but we all can see how easy is it to abuse the system.

 

(and in the last know case, Thibus BF is actually a former olympic fencer, so, yeah...)

[Morten Jensen 10]

How can  start i men's K4 500 m?

[Olympian1010 7,976]

1 hour ago, Morten Jensen said:

How can  start i men's K4 500 m?

They've added together their athletes from K2 and C2 to enter the event. 

[Josh 10,517]

13 minutes ago, Olympian1010 said:

They've added together their athletes from K2 and C2 to enter the event. 

I didn’t even know that was possible 

 

Guess you learn something new everyday. 

[JoshMartini007 2,538]

For a nation which only wants the best competing, it's weird they would create a boat for the sake of competing in another event.

[Faramir 365]

I may be wrong but as I understand it, they don't care about C2. They missed qualification in K4 so their only option was to easily win the continental quota in C2 and only use it as a tool to field a K4.

[rybak 3,218]

On 7/15/2024 at 4:28 PM, rybak said:

Dorota Borowska will miss Olympics due to being caught on doping 

She has been cleared and Dorota can compete in Paris 

[Federer91 2,797]

First day of the sprint canoeing and already an eyebrow scheduling. Why have these people put half hour intervals between events, when we have only 2 heats for a minute or so.. The M Kayak 4 was done already in 9:42 and we are waiting 20+ minutes of nothing, because the next event is at 10... And this goes on for the rest too. Morons and i'm dropping this to watch something else.