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Take Slip·Aug 9, 2021
#PMT-2021-0809-686
Billy FootballBilly Football

Italian sprinter Lamont Jacobs 100% used steroids to win Olympic gold

Did [Lamont Jacobs] do it? Yeah, 100%. If you look at his Instagram photos from him like two years ago, he's like rail thin. And then if you look at him now, he's like kind of jacked.

While Jacobs' nutritionist was investigated, Jacobs himself has never failed a drug test and no proof of doping has been established to strip him of his medals.
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#PMT-2021-0804-12980
PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

Olympic runners are breaking world records because there are no fans to suck the oxygen out of the stadium

If there's no crowd at all, does that mean that there's more oxygen for the people to breathe on the track? ... They're sucking all the oxygen out normally, but when there's no fans there, it's a richer environment for especially distance runners to be able to breathe more efficiently.

The presence of fans in an open-air stadium does not significantly deplete oxygen levels for athletes. Records were likely due to new shoe technology and track surfaces.
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Take Slip·Jul 26, 2021
#PMT-2021-0726-13916
PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

Olympic fencing should use sharper swords to make it more dangerous

I think they should have sharper swords and fencing. Like give me an element of danger. It should be death, death, death, but like maiming.

Fencing safety standards remain extremely high; sharp swords were not introduced.
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#PMT-2021-0726-13922
PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

I could medal in Olympic handball because it is just gym class

I thought the easy first pick is handball. I absolutely can medal in handball. It really is the gym class of the Olympics. All you'd have to do is just do band workouts for your shoulder to develop like an 80 mile an hour fastball... I'm not going to ever lose to Croatia in this sport.

Hot TakeOlympicsHotSarcastic
Professional Olympic handball players are elite athletes; a podcast host would not medal.
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#PMT-2021-0726-13923
Big CatBig Cat

I could medal in curling because I like cleaning

My first pick is going to be curling. I think if you just gave me four years, I could figure it out every single day. I like shuffleboard, I like ice, I like being slightly overweight... and broom guy, the broom guy seems like it's like—I love cleaning.

OpinionOlympicsMediumSarcastic
While curling involves sweeping, the physics and precision required are beyond a casual trainee's ability to reach Olympic medaling levels in 4 years.
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#PMT-2021-0726-13924
HankHank

I could medal in pole vaulting if I trained for four years

I will go with pole vaulting. You just run, stick the stick... All you got to do is run straight and get the timing down. I'm going to be jacked by August.

Hank did not medal in pole vaulting and the physics of his body type make it nearly impossible.
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#PMT-2021-0726-13925
Billy FootballBilly Football

I could medal in Equestrian sports because the horse does the work

This one, you actually don't have to be athletic at all, but a question in sports... you can train a horse, you don't actually have to be that good. ... It's new team names. The horse does the work.

Equestrianism requires immense core strength, balance, and specialized training.
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#PMT-2021-0726-13926
PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

I could medal in Olympic ski jumping by just going 'full send' once

I'm going to go with ski jumping. I'll just bomb it once and just go full send... and just land and crash and I'll have the longest one. ... I can stand perfectly still for about 10 seconds while I'm going downhill... and then you just do like one of those little springs at the last second.

Ski jumping involves strict style points for the landing (Telemark) and judges' evaluation. A 'crash' would result in a score too low to medal, regardless of distance.
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#PMT-2018-0212-1653
Big CatBig Cat

Winter Olympics athletes aren't that impressive; you just have to be born in the right place

The Winter Olympics are definitely the Olympics where you can sit there and if you watch it long enough, you can convince yourself you could have been an athlete in every single sport. It's not hard. It's just essentially like if you were born in a weird European country and they didn't have basketball yet, you would be a speed skater.

Hot TakeOlympicsHotSarcastic
While meant humorously, it is objectively incorrect as Olympic athletes are elite professionals.
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#PMT-2017-0619-18085
Big CatBig Cat

Michael Phelps is definitely coming out of retirement for the Tokyo Olympics

Does anyone actually think that Michael Phelps isn't racing in Tokyo? The guy can't go a year without having to get into a race with a great white shark, and this is the guy who's retired? He's definitely going to race in Tokyo.

Phelps remained retired and did not compete in the Tokyo 2020 (held in 2021) Olympics.
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#PMT-2016-1005-4863
PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

Europe is on the hot seat for being off its game across all sports

My hot seat, I've got the entire country of Europe. Europe has been off its game. They can't win at the Olympics. They can't win at the Ryder Cup. They lost England.

Hot TakeOlympicsHotSarcastic
Factually, Europe is not a country, making this 'incorrect' by design.
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Take Slip·Aug 15, 2016
#PMT-2016-0815-15685
PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

I could win an Olympic silver medal in a swimming relay if I was on a team with Michael Phelps, Ryan Lochte, and Connor Dwyer

If you put me with Michael Phelps, Ryan Lochte, and Connor Dwyer, and we do the four-person 200 meters, I think we at least take silver.

In an Olympic final, the margins are measured in tenths of seconds. A non-professional swimmer would lose multiple minutes, making a silver medal impossible.
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Take Slip·Aug 15, 2016·PR 101
#PMT-2016-0815-15691
PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

Ryan Lochte should lean into his gas station incident by getting a gun sponsorship

If I'm Lochte, I think it's pretty simple actually. If I'm Lochte, I get sponsored by a gun company because you're not going to get held up if you've got a gun. I've got like some catchphrases already... Lochte and loaded.

Hot TakeOlympicsHotSarcastic
Lochte actually lost most of his major sponsorships (Speedo, Ralph Lauren) after it was revealed he embellished the story. He did not get a gun sponsorship.