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Friday Apr 4, 2014 #
7 AM
Pool running 45:00 [3] 0.7 km (1:04:17 / km)
A reasonably relaxed session at Fitzroy; not too stiff from the day before. Started by thinking about the quirky - the Age listing in its birthdays column for today "Grumpy Cat, US internet celebrity" - and moved on to the bizarreness of the various conspiracy theories going around about the Malaysian plane, some of which are definitely at the Harold Holt-and-Chinese-submarine level of credibility (unless you believe that the US, with or without the assistance of Mossad depending on which particular flavour of looniness your source is coming from, secretly diverted the plane by remote control and landed it on Diego Garcia).
One of the things which came to my attention today was a report about the number of drug tests, by sport, in the US last year. Athletics led the way with around 2000 with cycling following at around 1500, but it was the bottom end of the list which got my attention - it requires a certain amount of imagination to contemplate what might be considered performance-enhancing substances for cheerleading (13) or fishing (7), although a lot of practitioners of the latter clearly believe that beer is a performance-enhancing substance. (America's orienteers were of no interest to their anti-doping authorities last year).
One of the things which came to my attention today was a report about the number of drug tests, by sport, in the US last year. Athletics led the way with around 2000 with cycling following at around 1500, but it was the bottom end of the list which got my attention - it requires a certain amount of imagination to contemplate what might be considered performance-enhancing substances for cheerleading (13) or fishing (7), although a lot of practitioners of the latter clearly believe that beer is a performance-enhancing substance. (America's orienteers were of no interest to their anti-doping authorities last year).