At that level, first there’s a shit load of work and deprivation and raw talent honed in countless hours of training, sometimes through injuries and pain. You make it sound like it’s all about the drugs and the cheating, I say there’s titanic amounts of work to be done just to get to be able to cheat. To keep to your edge metaphor: step 1 to 99 are forging the sword.

I remember someone suggesting that for all Olympic disciplines we should first select a member of the public and let them attempt it. 100m dash. High jump. Walking across the narrow beam. Doing one pull up on the parallel bars. I bet we would appreciate those athletes more afterwards.

I’m not condoning cheating, to be sure, and I’ve been around for long enough to see this arms race unfold, in cyclism and tennis especially. Athletes are human, and the desire to win sometimes surpasses common sense. But even for a total lying cheater like Lance Armstrong I can still appreciate the sheer amount of work he put in to get lto the start of the race. If you dope an average Joe the same way, all they will accomplish is maybe walk faster.

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David is a treasure. His whole Avian Intelligence series is hilarious, look it up.

Haha, best case scenario right here.

… although if you’re not doing that for a living, I would count it as brave.

If you’re just minding your own business, I’m afraid you’re right.

This sounds like personal experience, if that’s the case, I’m sorry it happened to you, mate. Sime people can be real dicks.

Funnily enough (pardon the pun) I thought about putting the option in, but my personal perception is that people being filmed doing funny stuff are not usually filmed by strangers. Slapstick doesn’t count, or rather, I tend to file that under “stupid”.

Are you sure that contradicts my statement? 😈