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Originally Posted by crzylgs
jesus christ he must be the result of some kinda government experiment.
i dont know, its not even close to the same level, but i wrestled at a high level, and at least 75% of all the elite all-american wrestlers drank A TON, and a lot smoked. i know of a multiple time ncaa champion that did shrooms all the time, and more on phelps' level, a greco-roman world champ, joe warren, is in the middle of a two year competition suspension for testing positive for marijuana twice. obviously you dont want to be binge drinking the week of a major competition, but alcohol/drugs are more mentally destructive than physically for an elite athlete, in terms of killing your motivation to train. and those elite athletes are the strongest mentally anyways so they can get away with it.
also obama just legalized weed because of this, article on nbc.com right now