Runner in China who chain-smoked throughout marathon banned for two years
Runner in China who chain-smoked throughout marathon banned for two years
Man popularly known as Uncle Chen earns title of ‘smoking brother’ in China
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How the hell can you be a chain smoker and run a marathon?!
It's China...
Smoking a filtered cigarette might be better air quality than just breathing the air...
The winner of the 1904 marathon was given rat poison. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athletics_at_the_1904_Summer_Olympics_–_men's_marathon
Entire story is wild.
For podcast people the dollop also did an episode on this olympics. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KFLjcX163WI
I read the whole article. I wish Wikipedia articles had a comment section just or this article. What a wild ride.
Those are...surprisingly good marathon times, considering.
It's a stimulant.
What, the rat poison?
Maybe but the guy was wrecked pretty much afterward and barely even finished. Could hardly walk for part of it.
I see, that's too much then. I mean it's primarily a poison but I think it's from the same family as nicotine, interestingly enough.
Right? I can’t even finish one.
Holy hell this is definitely worth a read 😂
Something about the professional, detached tone combined with the absolute slapstick insanity of the article's content makes this perfect comedy
That was amazing. Thanks for sharing.
You should give the podcast a listen, I forgot the 1904 olympics was 7 months long.
https://youtu.be/FDXnul5foxU?si=-pHYPKsG4RWOHqza this video is also about the same race
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A related video that's worth a watch for the sheer insanity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myM5SY1mHoA
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The dollop also did an episode on this olympics that is hilarious https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KFLjcX163WI
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I knew a guy in the army who would smoke a cigarette right before and directly after his 2 mile PT test run. Dude would run it in under 12 minutes. Some people are just built differently than us normal humans.
Nicotine is a potent stimulant. If you don't smoke all the time and get tarred lungs then I could see why that would be very bit official. like running a marathon on Adderall to a lesser degree
Had a whole gang of dudes like this in the Marines too, you said they're just built different, I say they're just nicotine addicts.
He was chasing them with cocaine.
Magnets?
I hope that's an American Dad reference...
Screw it, we'll just use magnets again