Not making this up: German athletes shoot ozone up their rectum to try to improve their performance

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    rojo

    Member since 07/09/2002.

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    8 years ago 10/05/2015 9:50am EDT
    http://www.wsj.com/articles/in-rebuff-to-usada-wada-declines-to-ban-thyroid-medication-1443568862

    I'm working on the weekly recap and was re-reading the thyroid articles from last week. In Sara Germano's Wall Street Journal, there was a real nugget:

    Sara Germano wrote:

    “We monitor medicalization of performance because it can be a step into doping, but it doesn’t mean its doping,” he (Dr. Olivier Rabin, science director for WADA,) said. One prominent example he cited is a practice seen with some regularity in German athletes, in which they infuse ozone into the rectum for the perceived benefit of improving their oxygen intake.

    “It was brought up to our technology department, they come to us and say, ‘What is your opinion on this?’ We had a good laugh, because frankly it doesn’t work,” he said..

    Thank goodness, I only have a lot of German ancestry and didn't actually compete there as an athelte.

  • ???????????????

    Anonymous Poster

    8 years ago 10/05/2015 12:16pm EDT
    re: rojo

    "Thank goodness, I only have a lot of German ancestry and didn't actually compete there as an athelte."

    Please, expound on this statement, thank you.

  • not complicated

    Anonymous Poster

    8 years ago 10/05/2015 12:28pm EDT
    re: ???????????????

    He is thankful that though he is of German descent he didn't compete in a country where they shoot ozone up their ass.

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    brogan1

    Member since 04/01/2005.

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    8 years ago 10/05/2015 12:40pm EDT
    re: rojo

    Wasn't there a country whose Olympic swimmers were putting helium or some other gas into their anus to improve buoyancy?

  • Won't work

    Anonymous Poster

    8 years ago 10/05/2015 1:07pm EDT
    re: brogan1

    That's a pretty shitty idea for a ped.

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    Bad Wigins

    Member since 03/22/2013.

    25,039 posts. Last post 4 weeks ago.
    8 years ago 10/05/2015 3:35pm EDT
    re: rojo

    All Germans do this kind of thing, it has nothing to do with sports or doping.

  • I'm in the OOOOO zone

    Anonymous Poster

    8 years ago 10/05/2015 3:49pm EDT
    re: rojo

    Good idea, will have to try that.

  • ??????????????????????

    Anonymous Poster

    8 years ago 10/07/2015 7:10am EDT
    re: not complicated

    not complicated wrote:

    He is thankful that though he is of German descent he didn't compete in a country where they shoot ozone up their ass.

    Duh, yet he voluntarily lives in Baltimore?

  • Looby

    Anonymous Poster

    8 years ago 10/07/2015 7:39am EDT
    re: brogan1

    brogan1 wrote:

    Wasn't there a country whose Olympic swimmers were putting helium or some other gas into their anus to improve buoyancy?

    Yes. It was East Germany during the 1970's. It didn't work because it also caused severe cramping.

  • Rimshot!

    Anonymous Poster

    8 years ago 10/07/2015 8:16am EDT
    re: rojo

    Rectum? I heard it dang near killed 'em.

  • kmaclam

    kmaclam

    Member since 07/30/2008.

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    8 years ago 10/07/2015 8:22am EDT
    re: Rimshot!

    If by "improving their performance" they mean running faster, then this seems like a foolproof no brainer. I'd sure as hell run faster if someone wanted to shoot ozone up my butt. And how many American athletes have done coffee enemas as a means to detoxify? I don't think the Germans are one up on us here.

  • Mine Furor

    Anonymous Poster

    8 years ago 10/07/2015 3:51pm EDT
    re: rojo

    This confirms it.

    Germans will use any pretense to shove something up their asses.

  • The brojo doth protest too muc

    Anonymous Poster

    8 years ago 10/07/2015 4:01pm EDT
    re: ???????????????

    ??????????????? wrote:

    "Thank goodness, I only have a lot of German ancestry and didn't actually compete there as an athelte."

    Please, expound on this statement, thank you.

    Sadly you come from a country where former elite athletes have sex changes and become reality TV stars.

    You will realise your destiny in due course.

  • reddish baron

    Anonymous Poster

    8 years ago 10/07/2015 8:13pm EDT
    re: rojo

    rojo wrote:

    http://www.wsj.com/articles/in-rebuff-to-usada-wada-declines-to-ban-thyroid-medication-1443568862

    I'm working on the weekly recap and was re-reading the thyroid articles from last week. In Sara Germano's Wall Street Journal, there was a real nugget:

    Sara Germano wrote:

    “We monitor medicalization of performance because it can be a step into doping, but it doesn’t mean its doping,” he (Dr. Olivier Rabin, science director for WADA,) said. One prominent example he cited is a practice seen with some regularity in German athletes, in which they infuse ozone into the rectum for the perceived benefit of improving their oxygen intake.

    “It was brought up to our technology department, they come to us and say, ‘What is your opinion on this?’ We had a good laugh, because frankly it doesn’t work,” he said..

    Thank goodness, I only have a lot of German ancestry and didn't actually compete there as an athelte.

    They were blowing smoke up your ass.

  • assoff

    Anonymous Poster

    8 years ago 10/07/2015 8:34pm EDT
    re: rojo

    Psychological boost that don't involve ass filling: "You will get your ass filled with ozone if you do bad."

    If I was told that I would run my ass off.

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    Ajax

    Member since 08/07/2012.

    305 posts. Last post 3 weeks ago.
    8 years ago 10/07/2015 8:35pm EDT
    re: reddish baron

    reddish baron wrote:

    rojo wrote:http://www.wsj.com/articles/in-rebuff-to-usada-wada-declines-to-ban-thyroid-medication-1443568862

    I'm working on the weekly recap and was re-reading the thyroid articles from last week. In Sara Germano's Wall Street Journal, there was a real nugget:

    Thank goodness, I only have a lot of German ancestry and didn't actually compete there as an athelte.

    They were blowing smoke up your ass.

    I'm not in the least bit surprised. There are plenty of videos on the internet of Germans putting things up there...or so I've heard.

  • Atheltic department

    Anonymous Poster

    8 years ago 10/07/2015 8:48pm EDT
    re: ???????????????

    ??????????????? wrote:

    "Thank goodness, I only have a lot of German ancestry and didn't actually compete there as an athelte."

    Please, expound on this statement, thank you.

    Athelte is German for Athlete.

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