KDD-0063 wrote...
android654 wrote...
You're very wrong. Dara Torres is a great example. An olympic Athlete who holds twelve olympic medals and at the age of 41 she won more medals and made olympic history by braking records. At 45, she claims she'll be training for the 2016 Brazilian olympics. She's in just as good shape if not better when she began her sport.
Charles Barkley put it best when talking about the differences from the NBA in the 80's and 90's and the NBA today. There's been a huge leap in training methods, knowledge of diet, and understanding of recovery. Julius Erving (Dr. Jay) was considered the best in basketball. Then we got Michael Jordan. He was considered a god amongst men, then we got Lebron James.
Some sports are indeed crippling: to name a few, weightlifting and gymnastics. They have always been crippling and with the current trend of players over-training for medals.
Ok, so you clearly did not look at either link. Charles Barkley noted the fact the when he was in his last season in the NBA, every team had at least one weight lifting coach since we now have the science and training to know the benefits of weight training. Dara Torres also weight trains. In the link provided she's even doing pullups with a 45lb plate. But let's ignore that, I've got more information anyway.
Here's Arnold at age 28 in 1975 and on the left at age 63.
His sport isn't to blame, his lack of dedication to his sport, malnutrition and the abuse of drugs were to blame.
Here's Sylvester Stallone. On the left in the early 70's post Rocky, on the right at 63 training for the Expendables.
Stallone is a lifelong athlete and body builder. Not only that, but he follows a paleo diet, a five day split and claims to get in about 8-10 hours of training a week.
See the difference? But perhaps you think he's not a valid contender because of his celebrity status. Ok, fine
Here's Dr. Jeffrey Life. Sports nutritionist and body builder.
He like Stallone follows a Paleo diet and a five day split. At 73 he's won bodybuilding competitions and it still going strong.
The fact is no sport damages the body is the practitioner eats clean, performs properly, and recovers fully before progressing. This was something that was unheard of in the early days of the 20th century, which is why many of those athletes were creaking with every step at 40. They had the assumption you could smoke a pack of cigarettes, eat a slice of cake baked with lard and be fine if you swam a mile every other day. We're animals and the majority of our food is only found in the produce and meat section of the supermarket. Even then most of the produce people consume damages their bodies without even knowing why.
So, sorry charlie, but you're wrong on this one as well. We're designed like apes, and were intended to be as physical as they are in their old age. We messed that up, not sports.
However when you look at other sports, say, basketball. There is only one medal for each gender. Why swimming has to have all kinds from 100m to 400m for every style, I have no idea.
Fair enough. Perhaps they focus on swimming so much because of it's popularity. Even so, Phelps was dazzling in 2000 and in 04, even broke records this year. So we'll all keep watching.
However in this Olympic event there are lots of double standards around.
Philip Hindes even admitted himself that he crashed into other players on purpose to get a restart, but the UK officials simply dismissed his words as "lost in translation" and the gold was legit.
Perhaps Hindes wasn't as deliberate. Did you see the badminton events? It was blantantly obvious what they were doing which is why they were booted out. Either way, is Hindes did cheat he should be taken out as well.
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