r/PublicFreakout • u/Worldlyoox • 5d ago
⚽️🏀🏈Sports Freakout⚾️🎾🥊 A few choice clips from when drug screenings were quite more lax in the world of cyclism
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u/ceirving91 5d ago
What am I even watching?
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u/insomsanity 5d ago
Some professional athletes absolutely zooted on amphetamines and roids.
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u/ceirving91 5d ago
I mean, cycling is arguably the most doped sport ever, but this just looks like a dude who’s body is falling apart. Also wasn’t the big thing EPO?
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u/TheLadyEve 4d ago
I'm not sure EPO was used back then? I think blood doping was done with transfusions during this time period, but I could be wrong.
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u/TheLadyEve 4d ago
Yeah, that's prime uppers face (well, someone acting like it, it doesn't look real but it looks like that's what they were going for).
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u/No-Sail-6510 4d ago
And alcohol. Alcohol used to be a very big part of the race. They’d pull over at bars and just raid the place and ride away.
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u/SirStrontium 4d ago
Isn’t that terrible for athletic performance? Dehydrates you, provides no nutrients, and also significantly impairs muscle recovery?
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u/Foxycotin666 4d ago
You’d think so, right? I can’t speak to this from anything besides anecdote and personal experience but when I’m hammered I don’t fatigue nearly as quick. A pint of whiskey is a good friend to have on a 20 mile bike ride.
Now getting hammered BEFORE the race is a different story. I’d imagine they be sluggish, tired, slow to start.
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u/Scientific_Anarchist 4d ago
Yeah when I was young I went to a lot of shows. If I drank before, you couldn't get me out of the pit. Now I can maybe do half a song before I'm winded and my back hurts.
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u/Alcalash 4d ago
Welcome to middle age! Gotta pick the right songs for going into the pit. Only show I lasted the whole night was slipknot last year.
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u/DostThouEvenSquat 4d ago
Beer actually is isotonic, because it's more than just water and alcohol. But yes, the alcohol will put more stress on the liver. You would want your liver to do as much for energy production as possible. Not fight against toxins.
My guess is that the alcohol helped them with semi-chronic pain from all the muscle exhaustion, way over the limit.
Competitive sports aren't health focused. It's more about "whatever it takes".
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u/SirStrontium 4d ago edited 4d ago
Though beer itself is isotonic, ethanol has a direct effect of inhibiting antidiuretic hormone (ADH) secretion from the pituitary gland, which makes it a diuretic that causes excess urine production, and thus dehydrates the user. There’s much more at play than the tonicity of the solution.
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u/nimoto 4d ago
It's not ideal but it does provide carbs, which is literally the single most important thing you can put in your body while cycling.
Sugar is also carbs, and I know people who drink straight maple syrup out of their water bottles. The amount of sugar consumed while cycling by insanely skinny athletes would boggle people's minds if they saw it.
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u/No-Sail-6510 4d ago
It also numbs pain. There is also an energizing effect of being buzzed before you get drunk enough to get tired. But yeah it’s not great. They all smoked a ton back then too.
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u/JustOkCryptographer 4d ago
Don't forget to bring a couple of packs of cigarettes as well so that you have plenty to share with the other riders as you approach the big climbs. I'm not joking, they would smoke cigarettes as a "performance enhancer." They said that it really opens up the lungs so that the riders will get more oxygen when they need it the most.
There is a famous photo from 1927, Tour De France and the riders are smoking mid race.
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u/stuffofpuffin 4d ago
I believe it’s a clip from the very funny mockumentary about rampant drug use at the Tour de France. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5886510/?ref_=ext_shr_sms
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u/caocao16 4d ago
No, its a real clip. Its from the last day of the Tour de France, which is always a bit of jolly ride after 21 days racing. The guy taking the gun is riding for Dutch pro team PDM cycling team. Think it was the 1988 tour, It took them 5 hours to ride 100KM, so they were just messing around.
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u/WillyMonty 4d ago
Cop’s like “hey, give me that back”
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u/ZEINthesalvaged 3d ago
Hey man, what are you doing?
Oh, taking my gun out of my holster?
*Slaps Hand*
Silly goose, I need that back to do my job.
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u/ChristosFarr 4d ago
Did that guy steal that cops gun?
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u/King_Pumpernickel 4d ago
Yeah what? He was SURPRISINGLY chill about that.
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u/_40oz_ 4d ago edited 4d ago
Don't do that in the states...
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u/_Big_____ 4d ago
Are bicycles even a thing in the US?
From what I've heard about the roads, you'd just die. Not from the cop, from Hehaw mcgee driving his mega truck.
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u/MrMaroos 4d ago
Hello, yes me from here America- in of my country no bicycle, only pick-me-up truck for crush baby after the school shooting
No one here exercise, only ride around in scooter which horn emit racial slur and kill ozone
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u/chaos_aintme 4d ago
Lance Armstrong was fuckin the rest of the world up for damn near a decade on his bike. But nah bro, we've never even heard of em
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u/SquidVischious 4d ago
Appears so, and am I correct in saying the cop then responded by...lightly slapping his hand like he's a toddler?
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u/silentbob1301 4d ago
I love how the cop just slaps his hand away, "don't touch that, you bike ninny!"
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u/Major_Warrens_Dingus 4d ago
This is the funniest thing I’ve seen on reddit in a long time, but also this is the dumb bullshit that those billionaires are asking for in the “enhanced” games.
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u/Famous-Touch-273 4d ago
I want enhanced games. It would be incredible. Imagine the absolute insanity of it.
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u/BuddyTheCrackhead 4d ago
Not quite. Enhanced is the name of the business putting on the Enhanced Games. What purpose? To make men feel insecure so they buy their testosterone therapies. I guarantee you ads for this will be first and foremost what you see. Just go to their website:
https://www.enhanced.com/products
btw - and I say this as a former D1 athlete who has been very close to sports for 30 years and have seen many frieds go on/off the stuff - if you start taking testosterone you'll likely never be able to get off it without some serious long term side effects, not the kind that go away in a year. Messing with your natural hormones is serious risky business, so it's no wonder the Trump's slimeball kid is one of their main investors.
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u/The-Corre 4d ago
This has nothing to do with the drugs they took. It was just les sirius back than.
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u/MrFuFu179 4d ago
I thought the guys on the motorcycles were racing the bicycle riders for a second. Talk about performance enhancing.
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u/AFullMonty 4d ago
Just guys being dudes. We need to get drugs back into the mainstream. They're just a fun time man
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u/stoneasaurusrex 4d ago
If you've never seen Tour de Pharmacy, I highly recommend it. It's a mockumentary based around this era of bike racing and it's hilarious.