Watching superhuman feats in Paris, the writer's awe was tinged with the question: Is this really true?
Spectators cheer during the closing ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games at the Stade de France, in Saint-Denis, on Aug 11, 2024.
The videos started getting shared after Ledecky crushed her rivals in similar fashion at the Olympics. I had picked up cycling some years earlier and was a big fan of the American. He seemed larger than life, having bounced back from a cancer that had metastasised to his brain and lungs to win the world’s premier bike race.I remember back then my biking mates would wear his yellow Livestrong bracelets on group rides in support of his foundation’s efforts to fight cancer.But I was a middle-of-the-pack athlete on the varsity team and training sessions were often a hard slog.
On the one hand, there is research that suggests that the most elite athletes today are not pushing the limits of human potential. Even countries have been found to operate state-sponsored doping rings – like Russia did at the 2014 Sochi Games.Doping allegations have also dogged the Chinese swim team in Paris – after news emerged recently that 23 Chinese swimmers tested positive for a banned substance ahead of the previous Tokyo Olympics.
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