Can Olympic Gold Medalists be potheads?

• vindog
  
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  Feb 01, 2009 9:52 AM GMT

  apparently so
  
  
  He probably didn't exhale.
  
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  Feb 01, 2009 2:23 PM GMT

  maybe it was part of his training and is what allowed him to consume 12,000 calories a day.
  
  

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  Feb 01, 2009 2:26 PM GMT

  Lapinblanc saidmaybe it was part of his training and is what allowed him to consume 8000 calories a day.
  
  

  
  maybe not "allowed" him to consume 8000 calories a day so much as "motivated" him to consume 8000 calories a day.

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  Feb 01, 2009 2:30 PM GMT

  http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/news/150832/14-times-Olympic-gold-medal-winner-Michael-Phelps-caught-with-bong-cannabis-pipe.html
  
  Given the source of this, I don't think it has much credibility.

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  Feb 01, 2009 2:33 PM GMT

  When I think of a pothead, it's someone who smokes regularly, and there's no way a pothead could be olympic champion of anything. All medal winners are tested for doping, and cannabis is in your system for quite a while (it's still on the doping list even if it's not really performance enhancing in most sports, I guess it's more of a moral question).
  
  However, if someone's smoking a few times a year off season, is probably not worse than drinking alcohol once in a while. There's still the risk of getting caught by unannouced doping tests though.

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  Feb 01, 2009 2:41 PM GMT

  I showed the picture to my housemate - we both think it doesn't really look like him.
  
  A four-year ban from participating in Olympic sports, as cited in the article, seems harsh for someone who may take one toke from a bong. And, if Phelps is really a pothead as the eyewitnesses were suggesting, wouldn't his activities show up in a drug test?
  
  This seems a little implausible to my untrained investigative eye.

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  Feb 01, 2009 2:48 PM GMT

  I like this quote from one of the online "sources"
  
  Via http://www.postchronicle.com/news/original/article_212204548.shtml:
  
  Phelps Inc is taking a hit as British tabloid News of the World have posted a photograph of Phelps apparently doing bong hits back in November 2009. The incident took place at a house party near the University of South Carolina.
  
  I guess they time-traveled to November 2009 to catch future bong-hitters in action!
  
  Update:
  "Phelps apologizes for 'bad judgment' after marijuana photo":
  http://www.usatoday.com/sports/olympics/2009-02-01-michael-phelps_N.htm
  

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  Feb 01, 2009 2:48 PM GMT

  The first time snowboarding was a demonstration sport at the Winter Olympics, the gold medallist was Ross Rebagliati from Whistler, BC, in 1998. He was found to have marijauna in his system and the medal was taken away from him; a tribunal later gave it back on the basis that it's not a performance-enhancing drug.
  
  In fact, I think he deserved an extra medal for just having the drive to get up off the couch and turn the cartoons off. I mean, have you guys been to Whistler? Most visitors probably have enough pot in their system to test positive by the time they check in at their hotel.

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  Feb 01, 2009 3:06 PM GMT

  Its the news of the world........., makes a change from them and their usual paedophile hunt though.

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  Feb 01, 2009 4:18 PM GMT

  Move along, nothing to see here!

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  Feb 01, 2009 4:21 PM GMT

  The most angering story of the week.
  
  OH NO! Michael Phelps smokes pot!
  
  OH NO! Michael Phelps gets trashed!
  
  We must just be bored with no other negative news to talk about, what with our fabulous economy, 18 years of peace time, record low unemployment, environmental wonders, and the curing of all diseases!
  
  Oh wait ...
  
  Please - this is such a non story. If he took a hit? Great. He's human. Call me when he actually does something wrong. Meantime, give the guy a break.

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  Feb 01, 2009 4:25 PM GMT

  
  cutecdnboy said, " I mean, have you guys been to Whistler? Most visitors probably have enough pot in their system to test positive by the time they check in at their hotel."
  
  The hotel staff can apparently get high just by smoking the sheets guests slept in....

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  Feb 01, 2009 5:08 PM GMT

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  Feb 01, 2009 5:15 PM GMT

  Sed, that was awesome. Marry me?

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  Feb 01, 2009 5:23 PM GMT

  How could anybody ever get bored of that.

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  Feb 01, 2009 5:34 PM GMT

  GwgTrunks saidSed, that was awesome. Marry me?

  
  
  First I must ascertain that you do not smoke pot so you won't sabotage the Olympian dreams of our future son.

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  Feb 01, 2009 7:12 PM GMT

  Just let the poor guy unwind and have a little fun! Geeze.
  
  In the "apology" he released this morning he said that he acted inappropriately, blah blah blah. I think he should tell everyone where to stick it and to mind their own business.

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  Feb 01, 2009 7:58 PM GMT

  after the olympics yes but the year or two before deff not.
  
  you get drug tested after each sanctioned event. so its highly not possible that he was smoking out before or during the olympics

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  Feb 01, 2009 7:58 PM GMT

  Bunjamon saidJust let the poor guy unwind and have a little fun! Geeze.
  
  In the "apology" he released this morning he said that he acted inappropriately, blah blah blah. I think he should tell everyone where to stick it and to mind their own business.

  
  
  
  I agree. I know tons of hard core competitive athletes who smoke herb. Who cares, really?
  
  I like where the Australian Dr says "They shouldn't test for it, its not performance enhancing."
  
  
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  Feb 01, 2009 8:26 PM GMT

  Hahaha Nicely done Eric, nicely done.

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  Feb 01, 2009 10:23 PM GMT

  I stand corrected. Guess the photo is real. Agreed, though - give the guy a break!

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  Feb 01, 2009 10:29 PM GMT

  
  
  This post was mainly for the soapboxers who know everything and think that only LOSERS do "drugs" and that no one serious about sports can do this stuff.
  
  
  It made me like Phelps even more, atually.

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  Feb 01, 2009 10:33 PM GMT

  Yes they can!
  
  Go Canada!
  
  ROSS REBAGLIATI FIRST EVER OLYMPIC GOLD MEDALIST IN SNOWBOARDING
  
  After winning the gold, he was found to have marijuana in his circulatory system and he was automatically disqualified. This decision was eventually overturned, largely on the basis that marijuana is not a performance-enhancing drug, and Rebagliati was given back the medal
  
  
  

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  Feb 04, 2009 11:30 PM GMT

  hotshotcdn saidYes they can!
  
  Go Canada!
  
  ROSS REBAGLIATI FIRST EVER OLYMPIC GOLD MEDALIST IN SNOWBOARDING
  
  After winning the gold, he was found to have marijuana in his circulatory system and he was automatically disqualified. This decision was eventually overturned, largely on the basis that marijuana is not a performance-enhancing drug, and Rebagliati was given back the medal
  
  
  

  
  
  LOL I remember that... but I think the real explanation is that because all snowboarders are pot heads it wouldn't have made sense to give the gold medal to someone else.
  
  as for Phelps, I agree with those who think he should have had the balls to tell people to mind their own business. Why should he apologize to anyone???

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  Feb 04, 2009 11:37 PM GMT

  I can assure you that marijuana *is* a performance-enhancing drug when it comes to snowboarding.

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