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Originally Posted by adzii_nufc
We don't know what records and achievements are real anymore.
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Agree with everything you have said including and especially the sentence above. Who knows what the real unassisted achievement of human effort is these days; when a record goes, my first thought is to wonder if the athlete is clean so I just take the Games with a pinch of salt.
People make a lot of money from cheating and therein too lies the problem. People compete for the money not for the pride of winning for their country (or at least that seems secondary). Then they leave for the tax haven of Monaco or stash their cash in the Cayman Islands.
Perhaps instead of the usual honours for cronies in Government service, people could be given a gold, silver or bronze medal instead; a bit of mix 'n' match will make no more nonsense of the awards than already exists
