So is Sir Wiggo a cheat then?

[One More Solo]

Okay we're now not allowed to acknowledge cultural differences because it's Xenophobic.

It’s a generalisation at best, and one that I don’t think is relevant to elite sport given it tends to attract personality types outside the norm (particularly endurance sports).

 

[jpaul]

in China / USSR with athletic factories, they compete/competed more for nationalistic/ultruistic benefit rather than personal financial gain, (and took what the doctor recommended too), and, I suspect, were/are idolised much more than UK competitors like eg. Mo who chose (dig) to compete for UK.
.. what did the Greeks compete for ... and what were their records versus todays (for javelin .. no watches for the 100cubits ? I guess)

The batting above their level ... at least for UK cycling was down to the bottomless budget ... to the detriment of other sports, like whoevers monopolising the current F1

Big list of usa weightlifters done for drugs over last decade https://www.teamusa.org/USA-Weightlifting/Membership/Sanctioned-Members


I realised I forgot Boris, as the exception that proves the rule on uk cheating.

 

[Orionaut]

.. what did the Greeks compete for ... )

They competed to be remembered.

The classical Greeks didn't have the Judaeo-Christian concept of an afterlife as such. They believed that their path to immortality rested in being remembered on Earth.

Hence Alexanders preference for a short life of fame over a long one of obscurity.

 

[Jasoncmor]

Don't know, don't follow sports, couldn't care less, doesn't affect me and doesn't interest me in the slightest.

 

[R.P.L]

Don't know, don't follow sports, couldn't care less, doesn't affect me and doesn't interest me in the slightest.

Thanks for popping in to add absolutely nothing to the thread

 

[Jasoncmor]

Thanks for popping in to add absolutely nothing to the thread

Not a problem.