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Trust The Process of Losing?

https://sportsanddrugs.procon.org/view.resource.php?resourceID=004420 Summary: The Summer Olympics (0.49%) have nearly double the percentage of reported doping cases as the Winter Olympics (0.28%). Athens 2004 was the most doped Olympics with 26 reported violations of anti-doping rules. Weightlifting is the most doped sport with 36 violations - 28.4% of all Olympic doping cases. Austria has the most doping violations in the Olympics (10) followed by Greece and Russia (tied for second with nine) and then the USA with eight. The four Olympic doping charts below were compiled from over 20 sources and provide a handy summary of doping in the Olympic Games from 1968-2010. The number of doping cases reported refers to the number of positive tests found by the International Olympic Committee and the WADA-accredited laboratory run by anti-doping scientists from multiple countries. Athletes who tested positive for banned substances prior to the Olympics and were not allowed to compete are not included in these numbers. For example, WADA President John Fahey announced that at least 107 athletes who play Summer Olympic sports were sanctioned for doping in the six months leading up to the London Olympics, making them ineligible to compete. Granted this information does not include the last two Olympics. Another interesting read: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-scientific-american-guide-to-cheating-in-the-olympics/ Well, yes and…not really. One the one hand, WADA-accredited labs processed an astounding 186,073 blood and urine samples in 2014, the most recent year for which figures are available. Slightly less than 1 percent of those came back with an “adverse” or “atypical” finding, jargon for a positive or suspicious result. That translates into a large number of positive tests—but contrast that figure with the 29 percent of athletes at a major international meet who, when promised anonymity by researchers, admitted to using PEDs. Clearly, plenty of cheaters are getting away with it. One reason is that the dopers remain about five to 10 years ahead of the testers. Consider the example of recombinant erythropoietin, or EPO, a potent hormone that boosts red blood cell count (and, thus, aerobic endurance). The drug had been in use for more than a decade before a reliable test was introduced in 2000, at the Sydney Olympics. Yet tests, clearly, have not stopped its use. In 2014 57 athletes tested positive for EPO, according to WADA. Anecdotal evidence, however, suggests it may be far more pervasive; because the drug only remains in the athlete’s system for a matter of hours, low doses are very difficult to detect.

Well at least it didn't happen in the playoffs

Larkin getting a bit annoyed

I want to win and beat them down. Sucks about Mantha I get right off work and rush home (being in FL) and I get to see the game and miss the good stuff and get all the bad!

We won, but their goalie is down. Jeez, they were saying head/neck, I thought it was knee. Far scarier. Stretcher out. Hope he is okay!

I jump through all these hoops to watch the last few minutes and then they frickin score

Well at least we have one functioning line!

Any hope next year we will be able to either poke check, or body check on D? Tired of the awkward lunging and whiffs.

PK period..... TATAR with the rebound! I wonder if I can finish with more posts than Sheahan's shots this year.

Was watching at bar, just got home. Feels good. If things go sour, the beer is cheaper here.

WOOOOOOOOOOOOO! TY Zetterberg! Someone has to tell AA that no one is faked out by him going at warp speed. VICTORY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

No call? Did he just fall?

I know we were on our heels with the PK time this period. I really hope we come out looking good in OT. We were moving it around earlier so well and actually looked like a decent squad.

Jeez......even the fight was sad.