Posted on 07/23/2018 4:58:16 PM PDT by EdnaMode
The social media post seemed harmless enough: swimmer Ryan Lochte sharing a photograph of himself hooked to an intravenous bag, writing “athletic recovery with some #ivdrip.”
But when officials noticed the photo in May, they launched an investigation that has now resulted in Lochte being suspended just days before the national championships in Irvine.
The 14-month sanction has nothing to do with the substance in the IV bag, which was permitted, but rather the amount Lochte received.
Athletes, who often take infusions of vitamins and other dietary supplements, are allowed 100 milliliters every 12 hours. The 33-year-old Olympian exceeded that limit.
This marks the second time he has been penalized.
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Social media provides you the mechanism for self destruction.
I saw a “health IV” facility last month when my husband and I were eating out; it was in the same building as the restaurant. Prices started at $150 for hydration and vitamins, and went up to $500 for “anti-hangover” or “jet-lag recovery” specials.
I guess you’ll never be poor underestimating the common sense of the public.
Sounds dangerous.
Mostly just fluids, I guess. It’s probably not much better for “hydration” than drinking water, or water mixed with Gatorade.
Never, ever talk to the police, and never, ever post pictures, or anything, on the interwebs with your real name..
The problem is that there are rules, and he broke a rule. Whether the rules make sense is a separate question.
The Sticking
Air
Infections
Mistakes of bags
This guy is an idiot
Haha!
Good points.
If they had had social media in 1944, Anne Frank's family might have posted: "Oy! So much matzoh! If you need a little bit for your seder, come to Prinsengracht building. But don't tell the Gestapo! We're hiding!"
No doubt
I’ve heard this is big business in Vegas. The young gentleman will get dripped after the first night of the bachelor party and are quickly recovered and ready to go for some more fun. Or young ladies and there bachelorette party.
This is easily rectified by Ryan identifying as a Trans Womyn, notifying the Officials that the drip was medical nutrition support for her Transition, taking the top spot on the Women's Team, and suing the shirts of the backs of the CIS Bigot officials.
I was at a party once in my youth when a less then legal substance was on the table and this girl whips out her Polaroid to takes some pics. I freaked. Sure am glad they didn’t have social media back then.
LOL!!!!
So competition is no longer who is naturally best, but who has done the best job of artificially boosting their fitness, within the “regulation permitted limits”.
I wonder what some of the top scoring Olympic atheletes of the past 20,30 years would have scored, if the same individuals were competing “raw” as Olympic athelete (besides the Soviets, East Germans and Chinese) did long ago, like the 1930s maybe. Would they have been as “good” then as they were recorded as now?
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