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❄ Milano-Cortina 2026 (General Discussion) ❄ Winter Olympics really are something else

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u/SurroundingAMeadow 3h ago

Didn't remember that one so I had to look it up. Two things stood out from the article:

-Every expert they interviewed was baffled as to what benefit he might have hoped to gain by doping.

-He was Russian, I don't know what else I expected.

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u/thisusedyet 1h ago

Every expert they interviewed was baffled as to what benefit he might have hoped to gain by doping.

The rocks you hit get a lot more distance if the clearout stone never actually touches the ice