Mental if you don’t think every track/weightlifting athlete isn’t on gear. If the juiced up guys aren’t smashing the ‘natural’ athletes by huge margins, that should be telling you something.
The Olympus drug test for the same reason wrestling used to take a dim view on competitors getting caught on gear - the bad image. They’re simply worried the olympics will fall apart if the public knew how rife it is. So al that happens is the Olympic committee do their due diligence loosely, and the athletes employ medical teams who learn how to cheat the system.
You realise the top of this page is me posting that they're willing to drop weightlifting due to weightlifting leadership corruption. That sounds super relaxed about standards at the top...
I think there's a stack of ignorance in thinking there's equivalence between "gear" you can use in unregulated sport and what you can use in the olympics and why.
There's money to be made being a successful strongman, a bodybuilder or an actor with huge muscle development with low body fat and the risk is primarily medical since no one is testing those professions for drugs. A major film studio will give you X months to
get in shape for a beefcake role, throw a coach and money at you and feign ignorance about the details. You can find a fair bit of discussion on this kind of thing but the people involved are likely to pass on conversation about it because of image issues or local laws about possession of certain drugs.
Meanwhile if you want a career as an international track/weightlifting athlete you have to risk EVERYTHING under regular and unannounced testing and spend perhaps a couple of decades of your life training under such conditions. Plus there's no money in it except for a rare few.
It's quite possible the potentially fastest person in the world just couldn't give a **** about running, went into a management role and never did the training or time investment required to claim the title.
109+ kg weightlifting is two simple lifts and dominated by a massive georgian who spends his life getting golds and getting tested.
There's no way he can be on the steroid cycles professional strongmen (who don't get tested) are on but between his genetics, his time investment and his training and what he
is able to take within restrictions he holds the records for those lifts.
The vast majority of the performance you see at the olympics is what you get from some people with base talent focusing their life on being good at it for many years. Some other person who isn't putting that focus in is not likely to beat them at it.
