Nick Symmonds book excerpt, you're gonna want to read this!

What does he say about Nike and Ian Stewart?

This thread title read like a Symmonds-fueled marketing campaign for his book

Hi Nick!

opinionated guy wrote:

Bocce ball tests wrote:

Because, lap tests are faulty (faked, screwed up, mishandled) more often than purists want to admit.

I know this is the common mantra. However, I have never heard of a cancer, strep, iron, or any other complicated or simple medical blood/urine test being "faked, screwed up, false/positive, or mishandled." They must exist to some degree, but I only hear this when someone tests positive for PEDs.

This also happens in "routine" medical tests. Well, results may not be faked, but mishandling of patient samples and (even when not mishandled) false positives occur.

This is how the NCAA did the urine test when I was competing in college. As a male I always had a male test collector.

DCO: "What are you doing..."

Athlete: "I thought you wanted a sample?"

DCO: We are not after a semen sample!

Athlete: "my bad, mind if I finish...?"

newname wrote:

His writing is cringe-worthy:

"had developed a taste for the bitter white powder on the Costa Rican trip we had taken together during college, and he occasionally still made the financial transaction to acquire the illegal substance."

Made the financial transaction? Jesus Christ.

yep.. nick is a seemingly bright guy but this writing is so forced it is comical..

I was somewhat interested in checking this book out but chewing through writing like that makes be not.

willy shakespear wrote:

yep.. nick is a seemingly bright guy but this writing is so forced it is comical..

I was somewhat interested in checking this book out but chewing through writing like that makes be not.

Hmmm,,, you haven't checked his book out and you find his writing forced. Based on what, a paragraph from the book?

newname wrote:

fan of US distance running wrote:

I don't understand your confusion.

You think pulling your pants down and having a stranger stare at your penis while you pee is nothing to find strange?

ummmm

Not any different than a hernia check for a sports physical. Both are strange, both cannot be accomplished a different way and both are required to compete at a certain level. You do understand why they have to watch the urine come out of you right?

Except it is nothing like that.

Hernia checks are scheduled by you at a time you choose. And you are seeing a doctor.

Pissing in a cup in the manner I described above is done randomly, by someone who is not a doctor.

It is weird. It is very strange you're acting like it's not.

newname wrote:

His writing is cringe-worthy:

"had developed a taste for the bitter white powder on the Costa Rican trip we had taken together during college, and he occasionally still made the financial transaction to acquire the illegal substance."

Made the financial transaction? Jesus Christ.

Seems like he's intentionally writing this particular sentence in an excessively wordy manner to detach from the situation, in a "wink wink nudge nudge if you know what I mean" kind of way. I don't think the rest of the excerpt reads this way.

I know who the OP really is wrote:

Hi Nick!

Yep, 100% probability that Nick either started or contributed to this thread.

European girls he had MET in his building.

Interesting story though.

Dust wrote:

This also happens in "routine" medical tests. Well, results may not be faked, but mishandling of patient samples and (even when not mishandled) false positives occur.

I don't doubt what you are saying, but I am 46 years old and have never heard of this happening once. I don't know anyone who has had it happen. The exception is those found guilty of using PED's and in that context I have heard of it happening 60-70 times.

I know who the OP really is wrote:

Hi Nick!

Honestly the thread title and lead post writing are so jubilant and irritatingly positive, and I'd have to think Nick would know better if actually hawking his wares on Letsrun. My guess is the thread was started by a junior employee at the book publisher.

I don't know, dozens of Symmonds threads in the past have turned into a "Nick is so good looking" or "Nicks bangs tons of chicks" discussion. Most likely it is Nick trying to draw attention to himself.

zyzyxxx wrote:

Hmmm,,, you haven't checked his book out and you find his writing forced. Based on what, a paragraph from the book?

probably based on the dozen examples from the 20+ paragraphs in the excerpt

We spent the next few hours chatting up these lovely foreign neighbors, but eventually the cocaine wore off of all who had taken it, and we returned home.

cocaine doesn't last 'a few hours'.. this dude is FOS

The ESPN title should read: "Drugs,Doping Part of Sports"

and introduced me to the Russian college students Tiffany, Angel, Destiny, Brandi, Chastity and Delight.