Michael Phelps: "How clean will the Tokyo Olympics be on a scale of one to ten? I think four or five."

He feels that invalidating others performances make his past performances look better. Sad.

I think sadly he is probably right.

The sky is blue

Water is wet

KT1 wrote:

He feels that invalidating others performances make his past performances look better. Sad.

His past performances pretty well speak for themselves. Perhaps you are just taking a last minute shot at dumbest post of the year?

Is he mean that 4 to 5 out of 10 will dope or that it will be an average Olympic year in terms of doping? Unfortunately he hangs out on LetsSwim.com, so we'll never know the answer.

Sham 69 wrote:

Is he mean that 4 to 5 out of 10 will dope or that it will be an average Olympic year in terms of doping? Unfortunately he hangs out on LetsSwim.com, so we'll never know the answer.

The same probability would have applied to Phelps as well.

We grew up in the same area (but not at the same time). I can assure you that he comes from a culture of hard work and no cheating.

Sham 69 wrote:

We grew up in the same area (but not at the same time). I can assure you that he comes from a culture of hard work and no cheating.

How do you know that? I assume that he didn't cheat, but for him to accuse others is self-serving.

I don't think this is a major story. Phelps is just saying what the majority of intelligent fans of racing (both swimming and running) are thinking when he was asked by a reporter on his thoughts about clean athletes going into the olympics.

In the past, athletes have doped to get an edge on competition at the olympics. This is not new. The Russians doped for Sochi. They probably doped for the most-recent World Cup (their group of relatively-average players were outrunning just about every team). Michael Phelps has observed the testing procedures himself and understands how athletes could circumvent the testing protocols during their training to illegally dope.

Then, with the pandemic, the opportunity to get away with doping has increased. Thus, it is reasonable to conclude that someone out there is likely doping to get an edge. Someone else is likely doping because they feel like everyone else is doing it during the pandemic.

So, when Michael Phelps is asked the question, "on a scale of 1 to 10, how clean will the Tokyo olympics be?" he responds with an answer that's effectively, 'eh, probably somewhere in the middle.'

Every Caucasian American who spouts off about how clean they are , are found out to be dirty .

Maybe he can share a jail cell with Tiger Woods.

https://www.wtxl.com/news/michael-phelps-dui-trial-set-friday-in-baltimore/article_6d3c05c4-8760-11e4-9b78-af061cbd126e.html

Mikey sounds like he has turned into Ryan Lochte. It is someone else's fault. Saint Lemond is another member of the blame someone for their not winning or losing "their" records team.

Taking ONLY the sports that PED's make a significant difference, the answer is zero. 100% of the contenders are dirty in some way.

If they allow in the brits, Russians, NOPers, sprinters, swimmers, cyclists, weightlifters - then 1/10 clean.

doping NOPers wrote:

If they allow in the Americans, Russians, Kenyans, Moroccans, NOPers, sprinters, swimmers, cyclists, weightlifters - then 1/10 clean.

Love how Americans delude themselves into thinking that Brits dope worse than them. It was even the British press who blew the whistle on NOP. I doubt even then Americans would have done anything about NOP or sleazy Sal if it wasn't for the fact that the best runner coming out of it was Mo and not an American.

gftyhnj wrote:

doping NOPers wrote:

If they allow in the brits, Russians, Kenyans, Moroccans, NOPers, sprinters, swimmers, cyclists, weightlifters - then 1/10 clean.

Love how Americans delude themselves into thinking that Brits dope worse than them. It was even the British press who blew the whistle on NOP. I doubt even then Americans would have done anything about NOP or sleazy Sal if it wasn't for the fact that the best runner coming out of it was Mo and not an American.

Some Americans are cheating dopers for sure: rupp, centro, rowbury, hasty, every sprinter and thrower. However, the brits have a state sponsored doping program, thank you Little Lord HaHa Coe. doorbell mo and bobblehead radcliffe are the most outrageously blatant cheaters in the history of all sports. The entire brit Olympic program is a hot doping mess. Everyone who is intelligent and honest knows it and admits it. The brit press knows it, and any shade that they threw on sleazy sal and NOP was only to deflect from their own beloved cheaters. The brits do dope worse than anyone and are hyper hypocritical about it.

Damn auto-correct changed hasay to hasty. If there are any Hastys out there, I apologize for my computer and myself.

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rojo wrote:

"It would have been great if everyone was as tested as I was, but I know it's not. How clean will the Tokyo Olympics be on a scale of one to ten? I think four or five."

https://www.sportworldnews.org/swimming/news/1966/michael-phelps-clean-races-in-tokyo-i-doubt-it-/

I quoted this story in a previous thread. But it gained no traction in a sport rife with doping and supported by doping deniers. It is ironic, that the greater the incidence of doping the more vehement the denials that it exists. Phelps is stating the obvious - by understating it. Tokyo will be yet another doping Olympics. How many? It doesn't really matter, because it will be enough to call into question every athletic achievement.

Yeah right.

This government couldn't run a doping program, it would be a disaster.

Always interesting how people point fingers at the British. Not saying they're completely clean, but over the years you've seen a million Americans test positive, a million Russians, a million Kenyans and a couple of Brits.

Seems a bit odd. Mo Farah being dirty isn't the same as countless positives from these other countries, sorry about that.