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> While Fred Lorz was greeted as the apparent winner, he was later disqualified as he had hitched a ride in a car for part of the race. and > The actual winne
by gzer0 4y ago
> While Fred Lorz was greeted as the apparent winner, he was later disqualified as he had hitched a ride in a car for part of the race.
and
> The actual winner, Thomas Hicks, was near collapse and hallucinating by the end of the race, a side effect of being administered brandy, raw eggs, and strychnine by his trainers.
What in the world
- ska 4y ago'It was a different time'
- skhr0680 4y agoThere’s a great photo from the 70s of a football player resting during the super bowl halftime, enjoying a smoke and a beer
- scrapcode 4y agoLen Dawson of the Kansas City Chiefs. He just passed away last week.
- Someone 4y agoNot a beer, but a soft drink (https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/just-because-len-dawson-enjoys-a-sweet-cig-during-super-bowl-i/ https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/just-because-len-dawson-e...) And that wasn’t exceptional. See for example https://smoking-room.net/johan-cruyff-smoking-and-football/ https://smoking-room.net/johan-cruyff-smoking-and-football/ And that’s decades before the publication of “Cigarette smoking: an underused tool in high-performance endurance training” (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3001541/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3001541/) ;-)
- tcmb 4y ago> Improper correlation or extrapolation of data can result in dangerously flawed conclusions. The following paper seeks to illustrate this point
- tokai 4y agoHere's a picture of the Italian sprinter Cipollini smoking a cigarette during a Tour de France stage in 95. https://bicyclingaustralia.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/watson_00001362-5672.jpg https://bicyclingaustralia.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/02...
- walthamstow 4y agoWhile cycling! I would think the wind probably smoked most of the cigarette for him
- walthamstow 4y agoLikewise, here's Johan Cruyff, arguably the greatest soccer football player of his time, smoking at half time of the 74 world cup final. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DVjC1SIWkAU1MCQ?format=jpg&name=900x900 https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DVjC1SIWkAU1MCQ?format=jpg&name=...
- concerto 4y agoThis is actually Reinout Scholten van Aschat, a Dutch actor who played Cruyff in a TV series
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- walthamstow 4y agoThank you! I did wonder why it was such a good quality image from the 70s. He was a famous smoker though of course. More recently, Dimitar Berbatov was a known regular smoker. Also Jack Grealish but I think that's just when he's out drinking.
- ycombinete 4y agoYeah, it's not like now where they just give them EPO, insulin, HGH, thyroid meds, and ECA.