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Ken M
Mountain climber
Los Angeles, Ca
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Feb 22, 2018 - 10:22am PT
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Different sports have different attributes helped by different drugs.
For curling, as for such things as archery, it is not strength that makes the difference, but nerves and concentration. Something like a beta blocker, which diminishes the effects of adrenaline, would probably allow one to be more accurate and calm. It's use in an endurance sport would be disastrous.
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Ken M
Mountain climber
Los Angeles, Ca
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Feb 22, 2018 - 10:35am PT
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What is remarkable, is that any countries can end up effectively competing with the US, Russia, China and India. As the largest countries, they have the greatest genetic resources to produce standout athletes. It's understandable that India doesn't, because their society is not geared toward physicality rising to the top. The other three definitely are.
For example, the US has these amazing national training centers. Promising athletes can go there, subsidized, and get top-notch coaching, psychology, nutrition, physical therapy, training, scientific measurement of performance.
I believe they've done evaluations on high altitude climbers.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Feb 22, 2018 - 12:37pm PT
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Something like a beta blocker, which diminishes the effects of adrenaline, would probably allow one to be more accurate and calm.
Apparently Russians never heard of meditation, or whatevah Honnold is eating.
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blahblah
Gym climber
Boulder
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Feb 22, 2018 - 12:50pm PT
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What is remarkable, is that any countries can end up effectively competing with the US, Russia, China and India. As the largest countries, they have the greatest genetic resources to produce standout athletes. It's understandable that India doesn't, because their society is not geared toward physicality rising to the top. The other three definitely are.
For example, the US has these amazing national training centers. Promising athletes can go there, subsidized, and get top-notch coaching, psychology, nutrition, physical therapy, training, scientific measurement of performance.
Nothing remarkable at all.
In individual sports, one may expect the percentage of winners from various countries to basically track the countries based on some combination of population, average wealth, and interest in a particular sport.
That's pretty much how it plays out, except for a few outliers. For example, Norway stands out (maybe Trump was on to something about wanting more Norwegian immigrants, and they are a group of Supermen/women?)
There may also be some exceptions for sports where outcomes seem to be correlated to ethnicity, but that's a different subject and we're not going there!
But those are outliers, the important point is there's nothing surprising about the results as a whole.
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i-b-goB
Social climber
Wise Acres
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Feb 22, 2018 - 01:32pm PT
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Ah Curling...
USA fended off Canada, and are going to the Gold / Silver metal game!
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Feb 22, 2018 - 01:56pm PT
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Who do you think are fitter...Olympic curlers or professional bowlers? Pass the Twinkies, please.
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i-b-goB
Social climber
Wise Acres
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Feb 22, 2018 - 02:30pm PT
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StahlBro
Trad climber
San Diego, CA
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Feb 22, 2018 - 04:42pm PT
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DO NOT F with the Jesus
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rottingjohnny
Sport climber
Sands Motel , Las Vegas
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Feb 23, 2018 - 06:51am PT
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Can't blame her for the tantrum... She had her heart set on going to the white house...
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Feb 23, 2018 - 08:15am PT
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Suisse beat Canucks for curling Bronze? The Apocalypse cannot be long off now.
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BruceHildenbrand
Social climber
Mountain View/Boulder
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Feb 23, 2018 - 10:49am PT
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Germany beats the Canadian men's hockey team in the semifinals. Maybe we should be building the border wall to the north to keep the Cannucks from fleeing their "country"(if you can call it that)!
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Fritz
Social climber
Choss Creek, ID
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Feb 23, 2018 - 11:15am PT
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Reilly! Re your comment: Suisse beat Canucks for curling Bronze? The Apocalypse cannot be long off now.
You may well be right. During a company-sponsored trip to St. Moritz in 2012, we engaged in a Swiss-Style curling match. Them Swiss don't even curl like "white-folks." Note the upright stick attachments on the stones.
Although, I have to say, them Swiss do have some mighty-cute train conductors.
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Feb 23, 2018 - 11:49am PT
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Feb 23, 2018 - 11:58am PT
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Gold medal to prodigy Alina Zagitova, Russia, 15 years old.
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henny
Social climber
The Past
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Feb 23, 2018 - 01:29pm PT
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The picture of Diggins/Randall is great. The expressions on the faces tell it all.
The ground level rabbit (rail mounted) camera during the stretch run gave a great feel for the speed involved in the final stretch sprint (stands going by in the background for perspective.)
They were moving, Diggins was diggin'. What a rush it must have been to pull that off.
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ms55401
Trad climber
minneapolis, mn
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Feb 23, 2018 - 09:14pm PT
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I'm too young for the Miracle on Ice, but I am COMPLETELY JACKED for the Gold Medal curling match between America and Sweden tonight
Team 'Merrica:
Team Meatball:
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Feb 24, 2018 - 12:11am PT
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Ester Ledecka wins her second gold. Which gives her gold in two different sports during 2018 winter Olympics.
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Feb 24, 2018 - 12:39am PT
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And then the winner of the classic 50 km, Iivo Niskanen, Finland
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