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Tattoos And Boner Pills = Olympic Gold

deadspin.com — Apparently there's a new method of taking performance-enhancing drugs so that pesky IOC testers will be none the wiser: By tattoo.

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  • SuperWinner, on 08/07/2008, -3/+112"If I'm an Olympic athlete, that's exactly how I want to approach the 300 intermediate hurdles: Laughing uncontrollably with a giant erection."

    Thats how I'd like to die.
    • Futurejunior, on 08/08/2008, -0/+10It'd be way better if it said wrestling instead of hurdles
      • CylonsOfTheLamb, on 08/08/2008, -0/+2"If I'm an Olympic athlete, that's exactly how I want to approach the 300 intermediate hurdles: Laughing uncontrollably with a giant erection."

        yup, Grecco Roman wrestling is suddenly sounding like a great spectator sport.
    • 5xSTUN, on 08/08/2008, -0/+3But wouldn't you be worried about knocking the hurdles down on the way over them with... you know... hangin' down...
    • kjax82, on 08/08/2008, -0/+6That line is the sole reason I dugg this artice.
    • themastersb, on 08/08/2008, -0/+3Damn haxors.
    • haikuFU, on 08/08/2008, -0/+17To bad this article isn't accurate. They are taking NITRIC oxide, not Nitrous oxide. There is a huge difference.

      And doping via tattoos? That's *****. It's going to be just as detectable as just injecting it to your muscles. You're going to need the same concentration in your bloodstream with either method of delivery. Sensationalist *****, 100%.
    • iamchewy, on 08/08/2008, -0/+3They don't run the 300m intermediate hurdles in the Olympics. FAIL.
      • shutaro, on 08/08/2008, -1/+1Right, it's the 300m indeterminate hurdles.
    • AlaskaLoneWolf, on 08/08/2008, -0/+2Reminds me of the "Trojan Games"...

      http://www.trojangames.co.uk/
  • suckanucka, on 08/08/2008, -4/+31"Of course the men's basketball team can't do it, because most of them have no more space."

    Tattoo space or ***** space in their shorts?
    • opiter, on 08/08/2008, -0/+8***** space = tatoo space
    • ptsuk, on 08/08/2008, -0/+1Unless of course you just go over the old tattoo's with the same design, something akin to re-lining. Many people get this done over time as tattoo's colors fade/bleed.
  • whywait, on 08/08/2008, -1/+2this is going to be an interesting olympics.
  • Pinasco, on 08/08/2008, -13/+3Way to steal a comment from the original blog post SuperWeiner
    • aleishman, on 08/08/2008, -0/+4Did he add the "quotes" after your post?
  • GaynEmo, on 08/08/2008, -15/+7How does this make the front page with 107 diggs and this dosent

    http://digg.com/tech_news/***** ...

    with 524
  • miketoshach, on 08/08/2008, -3/+0sooo.... its less detectable?
  • towjam, on 08/08/2008, -0/+19i really never cared much for the Olympics, but it actually seems that its all about trying to cheat without getting caught lately. Which really sucks, because why work so hard and risk it all.
    • elk1, on 08/09/2008, -0/+3lately, I think it's always been that way. It's just a whole lot more attention gets paid to it now.
  • ashwinmudigonda, on 08/08/2008, -0/+3Last sentence was gold!
  • f4nt0m4s, on 08/08/2008, -0/+20Wouldn't the erection increase wind resistance and add drag to the runners and the swimmers?
    • freezerburn666, on 08/08/2008, -2/+4i know mine would
    • nyx210, on 08/08/2008, -0/+18You're thinking too hard...
    • Digglu, on 08/08/2008, -0/+3Wind resistance for swimmers? Maybe during the backstroke...
      • carl0ski, on 08/08/2008, -1/+0we watch breast stroke

        now the women get something
    • woobyluv, on 08/08/2008, -0/+3Think of it as a stabilizer, you know a shark fin...
  • markchain, on 08/08/2008, -3/+1Ahhh... That explains why my Tattoo Design forums have had an upswing the last weeks.
  • o5rob5o, on 08/08/2008, -0/+12Tattoos and Boner Pills = Olympic Gold,
    so my grandpa chuck with his navy tats should be taking home a few this year.
  • UltamateAddict, on 08/08/2008, -1/+2not going to deadspin. definitely not going there
  • CYR1X, on 08/08/2008, -0/+5This is getting ridiculous.
  • Biller13, on 08/08/2008, -2/+2Dugg for Deadspin.
  • 1773nium, on 08/08/2008, -0/+3*****, I seriously expected an article from the Onion.
  • Vincent21212, on 08/08/2008, -0/+8This article and its references are lacking substance. Who's developing this technique? Can you be sure that there are athletes out there using the technique AT THE OLYMPICS no less, as the article implies? How can you be so sure that current drug-testing will not detect these 'miniscule' levels of the same dope that they're known to detect? This article is *****. It's accusing "some athletes" of being tattooed dopers. Right now at the Olympics as we speak!

    Olympics athletes are notorious for cheating, but by boner pills and tattoo's? Give me a break.
    • persept, on 08/08/2008, -0/+2The only part of the article I know is true is the usage of Viagra. I had a lecture about athletes and performance enhancing drugs. As for the rest of the article's claims, I call *****.
    • Gold3n, on 08/08/2008, -0/+1Exactly... I'm pretty sure taking smaller doses has been tried before and who knows if it works but I'm sure it's not going to give you the same "results" of large doses.
    • spankr, on 08/08/2008, -0/+1Not to mention the fact that athletes who dope, don't do it at the Olympics! They do it months before a competition so they are "clean" for the event.
  • erveek, on 08/08/2008, -0/+1Tattoos and Boner Pills, the color of time...
  • Spikito, on 08/08/2008, -0/+3The laughing gas and viagra combo could work.

    Viagra increases blood flow, so does nitrous oxide, but its a relaxant also. one major side effect is erectile dysfunction.

    So taken in the right doses, the nitrous oxide would prevent the viagra from giving you a boner, while still increasing blood flow.
    • haikuFU, on 08/08/2008, -2/+1They are taking Nitric Oxide, not Nitrous. Nitric Oxide is not laughing gas, it's a vasodialator that acts on the lung tissue. This article is *****.
      • vpxx, on 08/08/2008, -0/+4Actually it's a vasodilator that acts on smooth muscles by that surround blood vessels, it relaxes the smooth muscle and therefore increase blood flow.
  • Foenetik, on 08/08/2008, -0/+5"And if you put the tattoo in the right place, no one will ever see it." don't actually use any ink?
  • dougmc, on 08/08/2008, -0/+5In Planescape Torment you got performance-enhancing tattoos as well ...
  • spankr, on 08/08/2008, -2/+10Pure and utter *****. A close relative of mine at the Olympics in an official capacity with WADA. I emailed this article to him and he just texted me back - laughing his ass off. He'd know.
    • haikuFU, on 08/08/2008, -0/+8I've also heard that the athletes are taking tiger penis suppositories and huffing kitten farts.
      • shutaro, on 08/08/2008, -0/+4That's some goooood kitten fart.
      • bigstinky, on 08/08/2008, -0/+2The visual of a guy in a sweat-suit actually huffing a kitten fart is beyond anything I have ever considered in my lifetime. Thank you haikuFU, I will meditate on this.
      • shutaro, on 08/09/2008, -0/+2@bigstinky: Am I the only one that notices the irony of that statement coming from someone named "bigstinky"?
      • bigstinky, on 08/09/2008, -0/+1Yeah...I get that often. Although I am privy to a gigantic realm of stinkyness...I have never in my life put forth effort into the concept of kitten farts. I am a cat owner and I promise to look into it.
  • Skitzil, on 08/08/2008, -0/+1"And if you put the tattoo in the right place, no one will ever see it." - I guess they could use flesh-colored tattoo ink.
  • leerayIG88, on 08/08/2008, -2/+6I wish I had two boners.
  • kylere, on 08/08/2008, -0/+2This explains Dennis Rodman
  • petaganayr, on 08/08/2008, -0/+1From the article: "If I'm an Olympic athlete, that's exactly how I want to approach the 300 intermediate hurdles: Laughing uncontrollably with a giant erection." Awesome!
  • TrevorPace, on 08/08/2008, -0/+2I don't get why someone would want to cheat to win at the Olympics. I mean how would that be satisfactory in anyway knowing that you didn't win fairly and almost lost to someone that didn't cheat?
  • RgyaGramShad, on 08/28/2008, -0/+3the comments on the original article deserve olympic gold…
  • iamdan1, on 08/08/2008, -0/+4If you had drugs in tattoos, it still will get into the blood stream, thus when they do the tests its still going to show up. No different than putting in a cream.
  • bashturd, on 08/08/2008, -0/+4dug purely for the last sentence.
  • jonthefisherman, on 08/08/2008, -0/+2waw waw waw wawwawawaw
  • HeDiggMe, on 08/08/2008, -0/+2Holy crap how did a deadspin article get popular enough for digg? I was just happy that it was sports!
  • DrPh0bius, on 08/08/2008, -0/+3I would like to call a whole hearted "*****" on this.
    The method of introduction doesnt make a difference... no matter how you get the drug into your system, it has to work its way into the bloodstream in enough of a concentration to be effective, and an effective dosage is going to show up on a blood test, no matter if you tattooed it, injected it or shoved it up your ass.
  • shutaro, on 08/08/2008, -0/+2Dugg for "Boner Pills".
  • Gemfinder, on 08/09/2008, -0/+1Physical exertion = Sweat
    Sweat = toxins excreted
    Toxins excreted into fresh (if superficial) wounds (read: tattoos) = nasty-ass infection.
    Good tattoo artists tell you to take it easy and not get sweated up until a new tattoo is mostly healed and stops weeping. By then, whatever mickey finn you slipped into the tattoo ink will have metabolically come and gone.
  • zaii7, on 08/09/2008, -0/+1ba dum tish
  • mrbobbyk, on 08/10/2008, -0/+0Here video in great quality!

    Full version of Olympics opening ceremony :

    http://usa-top-news.info/olympic.php?id=Full_versi ...

    and few videos from cell phone :

    http://fullhd-videos.info/olympic2008.php?id=Olymp ...
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  • aashishsahrawat, on 08/20/2008, -0/+1
    More Tattoos with Categories Based are at :
    http://www.atledo.com
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