The first ever disqualified Olympic athlete for a banned substance

The first ever disqualified Olympic athlete for a banned substance

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Fact of the day, Day day day day.

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Speaker 1 (00:18):
Today's Fact to the day is about the first ever athlete.
I must also thank um no work Anthony, lazy Anthony
will send in some great facts.

Speaker 2 (00:30):
Thank you, Anthony.

Speaker 3 (00:31):
A regular fact of the day contributed Anthony or Anthony.

Speaker 1 (00:35):
Um Anthony, I've got okay, but I may.

Speaker 3 (00:39):
Sometimes you don't hit it.

Speaker 2 (00:41):
Yeah, Anthony, you did, right, so, Anthony Hopkins, Well, Wikipedia
is not working, so that the game's up.

Speaker 3 (00:49):
Well, now you're going to have to come up with
your own facts. Look forced your hand. You have to
do your own reseach. I'm working. Let me give this
a REFREEH.

Speaker 1 (01:03):
Have to go to before I was working, like Google
was working. Right, Let's see if the Guinness World Records
is working, because this is a current standing Guinness World Record.

Speaker 2 (01:11):
I love watching the Olympics when they when they break
a work spot.

Speaker 3 (01:14):
On your phone, horn spot on your phone, Guinness World
Records opening. Let me try to refreshing Wikipedia. I mean
you didn't have quite a quite chap. I did what
that It's not working?

Speaker 4 (01:29):
No, Harm's gonna le Yeah, he was the first person
to ever get disqualified at the Olympics for testing positive
to a.

Speaker 1 (01:39):
Banned substance or what. Okay, that was where I was
leading opened what was the sport shooting?

Speaker 3 (01:47):
Oh yeah, what for shooting? Maybe something that more sedative.

Speaker 2 (01:53):
Exactly like our Turkish did.

Speaker 1 (01:57):
He was just kind of who said, by the way,
he was just joking about his dog, Oh you did
you read that thing on the person and he's like, Sharon,
I want my dog back, and everyone's like, give him
what he wants. He's going to be scenario on our hands,
he said, had a photo of his dog. Yeah, I'm
going to say some kind of what year was this,
nineteen sixty eight at the Mexicos of marijuana. I'm going

(02:17):
to say some kind of an fitamine to keep him awake.

Speaker 2 (02:20):
I'm going to say marijuana to keep Karma's nerves because
it was nineteen sixty eight.

Speaker 3 (02:24):
It was beer.

Speaker 1 (02:26):
He drank beer prior to pistol shooting. And it is
a banned substance because it relaxes your nerves. Alcoholano technically
is the banned substance right at lowers your heart rate,
so then you can be kis hand and still a
hand for the pistol shooting.

Speaker 3 (02:42):
Oh wow.

Speaker 2 (02:42):
Also like not great to have a beer and then
hold a gun, no, regardless of what you're shooting at. Yeah,
that's a sort of a generally agreedable generally we agree,
I did. I don't have the exact words of the thing,
because I don't know if you guys caught it just
before I said Wikipedia crash, Yeah, pet, he won't load
all right, But I went through the history of doping

(03:04):
at the Olympic Games.

Speaker 1 (03:06):
He was the first and only at that first one.
But then it's kind of like that was the landslide.
I don't know if testing got better or from there
on out. Tell you what decade do you reckon was
the biggest?

Speaker 2 (03:16):
Nineties?

Speaker 3 (03:17):
Yeah? Yeah, nineties was massive for doping.

Speaker 2 (03:20):
Everyone's getting jacked up, wanted to be faster, bigger, stronger.

Speaker 1 (03:23):
Yeah yeah, And they started busting different sorts of because
obviously after the nineties, when like these are the ones
we can catch, then everyone started getting a bit sneaky
creative and they started catching a lot of different ones
in the two thousands. Yeah, but the first one ever
in today's factor the day is the first person ever
disqualified at the Olympics Olympics for testing positive for a
banned substance was a shooter at the nineteen sixty eight

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Olympics who had a couple of beers.