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wmurch4 t1_ivguezu wrote

Idk but he's done this before and it is weird. I want to think it's just a concoction he doesn't want others to steal?

I'm trying to give him the benefit of the doubt. He is super into his nutrition so it's hard to imagine it's anything illegal. What would that even be? Amphetamines?

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phixional t1_ivhjmj0 wrote

Pretty sure Lance Armstrong was pretty into nutrition too.

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rookie-mistake OP t1_ivgzuyz wrote

luckily our man on the ground got a closeup

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therealestyeti t1_ivh5mon wrote

I know you're joking, but I just did some digging around online and I found the real recipe for Novak's special beverage. Here it is.

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Technical_Volume7016 t1_ivh6cwl wrote

I hate both of you

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xGothboiGuccix t1_ivgwmot wrote

yeah i mean its been done in other sports too, usually pickle juice

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iminlovewiththec0c0 t1_ivh2e15 wrote

If it’s pickle juice why hide it

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SCP-Agent-Arad t1_ivi4byl wrote

Most athletes are into nutrition. There’s a pretty big overlap of “People willing to try crazy diets to stay fit” and “people willing to try a little bit more.”

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Thefdt t1_ivl4yth wrote

A desire to win no matter the odds is quite a common trait too, which is why a load of them end up on peds when they hit their natural ceiling

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PM_ME_CHIPOTLE2 t1_ivlktyo wrote

Lol ironically djokovic didn’t care enough about winning while at his physical peak to just get a COVID vaccine.

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Thefdt t1_ivll5r5 wrote

His views were misguided but that was precisely why he didn’t get a covid vaccine. I’m not saying he’s on peds by the way, but the whole sports nutrition / tue shit in a lot of sports is a murky Grey area.

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bravetailor t1_ivvlm6i wrote

Especially when money is involved and your sponsors are counting on you to perform for them to continue to make money off you (and vice versa). They don't really care if you cheat, either. They just don't want you to get caught.

I'm fairly sure a good majority of professional athletes have done or is doing something. Even if you take out the money and cheating reasoning, the schedule for most sports is brutal and using PEDs just to keep your body together is a thing. The french cyclist Jacques Anquetil said it best: "You'd have to be an imbecile or hypocrite to imagine that a professional cyclist who rides 235 days a year can hold himself together without stimulants"

You can also apply that to basketball, tennis, baseball, hockey, etc etc. We look at their 82 and 162 game schedules and sort of accept it as normal, but then when you think about it--playing all those games over the course of essentially 6 months is physically insane.

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Ok_Balance_6352 t1_ixgwk44 wrote

What’s the point of taking it mid-game and not before in private?

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phixionalbear t1_ivje8o2 wrote

I hate to break this to you but all top Tennis players are on performance enhancing drugs.

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