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SCP-Agent-Arad t1_ivi4byl wrote

Reply to comment by wmurch4 in Djokovic’s team caught on camera as ‘bizarre’ secret drink video goes viral by rookie-mistake

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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