BRIDGE PLAYER IS STRIPPED OF MEDAL FOR REFUSING DRUG TEST...

[Gamblor]

Quite possibly the greatest video game of all time.

It has been sitting in my N64 since 2001, and hasn't come out once.

[Al_Capone_Junior]

Yep. Probably the southern baptist bridge spectaculare. Cuz you know "reefer madness" should not only be taught in schools, but in churches and movie theatres as well.

It's all silly. Who the FK cares? Only people who SHOULD be minding their own business, but are too nosy and rude to do so.

The olympic committee has not failed to do something stupid nearly every year, this one now too.

As an aside - bridge as an olympic sport? Ludicrous! If they're going to accept bridge they'll have to accept poker too. If they weren't going down this ridiculous avenue in the first place this problem would not have occured.

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[M.B.E.]

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The Daily show on Comedy Central did one of their "reports" on this yesterday. It was very funny.

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That show cracks me up every night. The segment on the bridge player wasn't as funny as the one on gay penguins last week.

[MicroBob]

yeah....that gay penguins story was one of their best of all-time.

[M.B.E.]

Frozen, just out of curiosity, why are you posting this now? The story is from 2002 (as Vehn pointed out). The Daily Show also ran an item on this yesterday; was there something recent to make it newsworthy?

Or perhaps The Daily Show found out about it from your post on 2+2.

[Dynasty]

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Chess has had pushes for drug testing too, also by people who mistake it for a sport.

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Haha, that tickles my funny bone. What are they testing these people for? Ginkgo-biloba? Haha...

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It's generally accepted that then-World Champion Anatoly Karpov used different types of stimulants during his 1984 title defense against Gary Kasparov. Kasparov claims that Karpov's staff gave him different stimulants during their games based on the difficulty and type of position the game has assumed.

For a game which was likely to be determined in the next five moves or so, a powerful stimulant that worked immediately would be best (Jolt [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] ). For a game which was expected to be more drawn out with the need to take advantage of miniscule advantages, a slower type of stimulant would be used or none at all.

[Frozen]

It's just that I saw the Daily show report on this, and realized that if the WPT or WSOP have similar BS drug testing, I'd never want to participate in those events.

[slamdunkpro]

Yeah, Lane Flack would be in serious trouble if they tested him for Coors Light [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

[Bill Murphy]

..who was the azzclown who thought there was a chance of fvcking BRIDGE becoming an Olympic sport?

Sheesh, never thought anything could top the Weider mags spending decades spouting how bodybuilding(giggle) was just around the corner from Olympic inclusion, but this does.

BTW, last month's issue of Vanity Fair said poker was "out" and bridge was "in". [img]/images/graemlins/smirk.gif[/img]