You know what's ironic? A green light when you're already late.
I never had an opportune moment to say as much, but I came away from the documentary in agreement with that. "Oh, it's just another way to get shit into your body."
It was still more intense because you need technique, it made him bleed a little, it raised bumps, it caused bruising, and you need a clean needle. But it's in the same neighborhood as other ways to ingest things.
I do my combat sports as a hobby. These are, of course, ripe with discourse about enhanced athletes. I don't inject myself with PEDs because they have side affects and I'm not trying to do all that for my $3 medal. There's something disconcerting to the idea that the people I know who fight professionally, the MMA fighters I've worked with, the coaches who teach both, and the ex-fighting coaches were in on some project to secure chemicals and inject them gives me dissonance. Like we were in the same room doing the same thing. When I think about the MMA class where I was getting beat up, it stretches my reality to be like "you're not just a better, stronger, more dedicated wrestler; I think you're using PEDs. I think you and coach are conspiring to invite me over and beat me up!"
To me there's a rift you have to cross to coordinate everything and decide to inject yourself with medically unnecessary needles. But that's a tangent from the point of posting this and an idea I want to explore and develop more.
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I guess in my mind it was something like "If they're all lying through their teeth about doping in sports, I wonder how much of what Putin was saying about the context for the protection of the Donbas region was hot air and bullshit."
But again, my source is a documentary about sports? I didn't even make it through Putin's speech. I don't know.
My sentiment exactly. I want to know more.
I feel my perspective broadening as I read this. Treadonme thank you for your incredibly insightful comments on how Russia thinks and benefits from the violence it undertakes. It's of course more complicated than America makes it seem.
Someone said it was about the biggest doping scandal and I thought it was going to be about cycling.
I had the rule of thumb, "if the US state department likes it, I don't." So if Putin felt like he had a good reason to oppose NATO and enter the Donbas region I was ready to believe him. I guess I was being uncritical in that sense. But it's not like I was going to materially support Russia in the endeavor or sing their praises for it anyway. Right at the outset I thought of it like sending people who don't want to fight into combat during Dark Souls 3 where the first flame is only embers. 2 nobodys nowhere fighting over nothing. So now I guess the question would be "how would I feel about Russia-Ukraine if Putin started the conflict because he was bored instead of a good reason?"
If I don't eat right and I do 2 BJJ classes the next day I feel like 
If you do 3 a days with a 10k run and strength training as well your body needs super powers to keep it up for an entire fight camp.
A variable that I don't think gets discussed and an uncomfortable part of this is that athletes who take PEDs have taken it upon themselves to do well with chemistry alongside their strong nutrition, sleep, and training before they still have to fight the same difficult fight of performing under pressure. It's an incredible thing to be a world class athlete.
I would have to say that it's the recency bias that bugs me more than anything. It seemed sophisticated enough for me. They had all the good instruments for a well-equipped laboratory. I would, of course, never play a game of "well at least America..." because it's the greater Satan.
I guess what bugs me is how ubiquitous it is/was. Intravenous injection of PEDs seems like such a hardcore thing and to have everyone just do it like they're taking their fish oil in the morning and then to have an elaborate plan to hide samples and produce false data is so alien. It's an inflamed sense of "everything is not as it appears"
I guess in my mind it was something like "If they're all lying through their teeth about doping in sports, I wonder how much of what Putin was saying about the context for the protection of the Donbas region was hot air and bullshit."
But again, my source is a documentary about sports? I didn't even make it through Putin's speech. I don't know.
There's this documentary that follows a guy who intends to take steroids for his amateur biking competition. He wants to show how easy it would be to test negative while taking PEDs. He needs to find someone who will test his urine and he gets in contact of Russia's anti-doping program director right before their whole program exposes its dope-injected ass in front of the world.
It paints Russia as this very negative, lying, corrupt place with this profoundly illegal and deeply ingrained PED abuse scandal.
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