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jackrusher: Perikles Kakounis, a gold medalist at the delightfully bizarre 1904 Summer Olympics (“Thomas Hicks was the first to cross the finish-line legally, after having received several doses of strychnine sulfate mixed with brandy from his trainers”).  It says a great deal about improvements in nutrition and training methodology that I’m stronger now than he was then.  Modern olympians from the same discipline look like this. “Hurry, I’m having a fit of the vapours — my brandy with a strychnine chaser quickly.”

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Perikles Kakounis, a gold medalist at the delightfully bizarre 1904 Summer Olympics (“Thomas Hicks was the first to cross the finish-line legally, after having received several doses of strychnine sulfate mixed with brandy from his trainers”).  It says a great deal about improvements in nutrition and training methodology that I’m stronger now than he was then.  Modern olympians from the same discipline look like this.

“Hurry, I’m having a fit of the vapours — my brandy with a strychnine chaser quickly.”

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