• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    I’m always stuck on Lance Armstrong, a guy who came out of chemotherapy with a seeming supernatural endurance and won seven consecutive Tour De France titles. Dude got the endorsement of the US Postal Service. He was a national celebrity for at least a decade. Damn near dodged the entire doping scandal to boot, because “No its fine, I’m being treated for testicular cancer” was a get-out-of-piss-testing-free card.

    Nevermind the entire early '00s HGH-powered Barry Bonds / Mark McGuire / Roger Clemmens / Sammy Sosa baseball era. Or fucking Wrestling! How many pro-Wrestlers were zooted to the gills on pharmaceuticals?

    Nobody seemed to care, then. But now, we’re supposed to pretend estrogen is a performance enhancing drug?