Greatest Sporting Moments

[Pardus 1,610]

George Foreman is up there, ten years out of boxing, no training, just preaching and eating cheeseburgers, comes back a decade later and wins the HW title seven years later aged 45, some achievement.

[eastcoast 4,522]

8 minutes ago, shaaark said:

Precious mcenzie,  at 4' 9" an absolute giant in weightlifting achievements.

I remember him. Remember my man and dad loving him. Seemed odd at the time as he was a "coloured" gentleman. When it comes to sport and winning medals... all are appreciated. 

[TOMO 28,625]

24 minutes ago, shaaark said:

Precious mcenzie,  at 4' 9" an absolute giant in weightlifting achievements.

He left weightlifting and went on to powerlifting in the end...few years ago I worked with a black kid on the door...his name was precious....he had no clue when I asked if he'd been named after Precious macenzie...he'd never herd of him...he was only in his mid 20.s mind

[TOMO 28,625]

31 minutes ago, Pardus said:

Tomo is right in a way though, I'm not naive enough to think nobody else has cheated since and nobody has got close to her times, but as I said, these days it's microdosing compared to the 80's.

It's not about microdosing....that's something you would do on a trt ...to keep you normal or just above...

It's about using stuff that's through your system quickly...and knowing all the wrinkles to get round testing...

[Pardus 1,610]

24 minutes ago, TOMO said:

It's not about microdosing....that's something you would do on a trt ...to keep you normal or just above...

It's about using stuff that's through your system quickly...and knowing all the wrinkles to get round testing...

Straight from the article.

"To avoid detection, the dosages are kept at relatively low levels and may be only intermittently used."

[pesky1972 5,634]

5 hours ago, eastcoast said:

Not a great historical moment but on reading the topic title David Beckham's free kick against Greece in a 2002 World Cup qualifier came to mind.  

Another memorable and iconic sporting moment that. Watched that game in digs abroad with a Geordie lad.,, who was absolutely frantic during the game and couldn’t sit down. I remember when the ref blew for the foul saying ‘Beckham scores this’.., and the rest is history. For me though (as a Scotsman) as good as the free kick was, Beckham’s performance that day was absolutely unbelievable…, covered every blade of grass, and was the very epitome of a captain who leads by example.  

[Pardus 1,610]

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has long associated use of steroids as a means to boost performance, with a large portion of athletes believed to have used them. More recently, to avoid detection the administration of low amounts of endogenous hormones (AAS) - so-called micro-dosages – have been reported. This type of misuse represents a major challenge in sports testing analysis. Micro dosing may allow athletes to give themselves a perfectly timed boost before an important competition that cannot always be detected with current analytical methods.

 

Olympic games

Some Olympic athletes have been forced to return their medals after new technologies that were not available at the time have retrospectively uncovered banned substances

Most performance-enhancing steroids are synthetic (manufactured in a laboratory) variations on the male sex hormone testosterone. Testosterone-derived steroids are relatively inexpensive to buy, and because the body produces its own version naturally, they are generally harder to identify in a drug test.

 

The current approach for testing for steroids involves comparing a ratio of testosterone (T) and epitestosterone (E), both produced naturally in the body to determine if athletes have been doping. Epitestosterone is a testosterone isomer (that is it has the same formula but a different arrangement of atoms in the molecule and different properties to testosterone). Since the body produces roughly equal amounts of T and E naturally, most people have a ratio of one-to-one. Still, there is some natural variation, which is the reason WADA allows the testosterone-to-epitestosterone ratio to reach up to four-to-one for Olympic athletes. A laboratory result of >4:1 T/E ratio implies doping. Micro-dosing requires more frequent dosing delivered at just the right time. Some experts say athletes could even get a significant boost in muscle and strength by doping within the permitted ranges.

[mitre 275]

7 hours ago, Pardus said:

The side effects of steroid abuse, turns women in to men.

They grow facial Hair and their voice is deep and spots too

[mitre 275]

Just now, mitre said:

They grow facial Hair and their voice is deep and spots too

Men have hair loss and spots also

[jukel123 9,402]

Before my time but this was a clash of race ideology.

Similarly, German Max Schmelling beat Joe Louis just before WW2 only for Louis to regain his championship.

Both historic, epic events.

https://youtu.be/N0ouprKFnl4?si=BAGLmrC3zf6oCd4-

Edited April 6 by jukel123

[waltjnr 7,991]

1977 me in sack race came a joint 5th ,I can still see that crowd screaming us on ,happy days ,I never sack raced again 

[.357shooter 1,366]

Johnathan Edwards triple jump world record.think he still holds it.

[Pardus 1,610]

2 hours ago, waltjnr said:

1977 me in sack race came a joint 5th ,I can still see that crowd screaming us on ,happy days ,I never sack raced again 

You'd have done better in the sackless race.

[TOMO 28,625]

7 minutes ago, .357shooter said:

Johnathan Edwards triple jump world record.think he still holds it.

I put that up yesterday...the video with it....go back a page or two

[TOMO 28,625]

Here's a sad one chaps