Canoe-Kayak has to be one of the dirtiest sport at the Olympics,no?

All I hear is a bunch of scrawny beta distance boys complaining that even women athletes have more muscles than them.

I'm a female who has been kayaking all summer and starting to look like this. The muscles really pack on when you are doing intervals, threshold, long recovery, plus a couple weight room session every week.

I've never taken anything stronger than Costco's protein powder.

Confirming there isn't much financial incentive in the sport. There is one company that makes all the racing boats (Nelo). I don't think Nelo has any reason to sponsor athletes since they have a monopoly. The NZ gold medalist (Lisa) is sponsored by Under Armour but she taken the individual gold medal in the last three Olympics (Faith Kipyegon of sprint kayak). I don't know of any others that have big sponsors.

I ran in college and trained for marathons after but wrecked my knee so I've had to find something else. I prefer kayaking over the elliptical in my basement.

I had a friend who drove around with 2 canoes on the top of his truck for years and paddled daily. He lived for a few summers in the Boundary Waters of northern Minnesota just paddling. I can confirm that his upper body was jacked and he didn't put anything in his body stronger than milk.

Testing data on athletes is available so you can look that up.

I find nothing strange about how these women look considering the demands of the sport. I worked at the local Y and would see women with definition like that and seriously doubt they were doping (maybe creatine). Just because your noodle arms do not look like that does not mean that someone else's cannot.

looks like those old East German swimmers back in the day....

The juice is strong with these

Holy traps!!!

Anybody who gets an Olympic medal in any sport is suspicious, but kayaking puts on the upper body muscle big time. 2 hip replacement surgeries knocked me out of running 4 years ago so I took up kayaking and people don’t recognize me.

The same thing can be said of age groupers in triathlon. But a recent survey showed that 1 in 7 admitted to doping despite the sport costing them money. You are underestimating people's desire to be on top or beat other people.

You think people only dope for money? Have you ever taken a look around the gym?

No chance .They are just ripped cos of the sport they do. Most kayakers are dirt poor

Right? Chris Bumstead wishes he had traps like her

why why why do you deplorable waste of human life have to comment on every thread?

Has the OP literally ever seen the effects of training in any strength-based sport??

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/638948265863401315/

Social media meathead thirst traps have rotted most people to the point that they dont understand that the first two would be a very impressive natural physique - for a MAN. Look at the lat spread... and delts that cant be built that way without gear. As opposed to the third woman who looks like HS/college crew members I have known. a bit like a thrower, narrower shoulders (lacking gear enhanced delts).

Lisa Carrington is around 1.68m and 64kgs. Hardly huge just super ripped.

Dynamo.😍
Single?

As a cynic, I'm not the type to declare an upper elite athlete "clean." But as others have alluded to, you are aware that this kind of kayaking is extremely upper body dominant, aren't you?

Take a look at the builds of the people in this event when they step out of their kayaks. Their physiques are very top-heavy. Which is what you'd expect. Sprint cyclists have an inverse of this development pattern, for the obvious reasons.

Physiques of elite athletes reflect their specialties. It would be true with or without drugs.