I don't know. While I do think it's a little funny to have the people who openly admit to "cheating" lose, we're sort of forgetting that there are different ways to have an edge here. Like if you're a world record holding olympic athlete you're not competing on the same terms as an amateur college athlete, your training regiments can't be the same, and the resources available to you are not the same.

[–] Infamousblt@hexbear.net 21 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

Sure, there is a realistic discussion about "who actually has the resources to compete" but this event ain't that. These drugs aren't cheap and just doing them isn't enough, you still need access to equipment or places to practice or coaches or whatever.

[–] Keld@hexbear.net 8 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Okay but one of the people he beat is literally a college athlete. Sure some of the retirees and semi pros have a good chance of training with good facilities, but there's a reason they're semi pros or retired.

I'm not even asking you to have sympathy with anyone here, but "Record holding olympic athlete beats retiree and college athlete" isn't really a headline is the thing.

[–] Infamousblt@hexbear.net 10 points 15 hours ago

Sure, but that's not the headline. The headline is "record holding Olympic athlete doesn't do drugs, wins a competition run by someone who thinks doing drugs means you can beat a record holding Olympic athlete"

[–] AfricanExpansionist@lemmy.ml 10 points 17 hours ago

Barry Bonds still had to swing a narrow piece of wood at 90mph balls to break home run records.