August 24, 2004
Today, Hungarian Robert Fazekas threw the discus an amazing 232 feet, 8 inches. The throw would have been an Olympic record, had he not been disqualified. He failed to complete his drug test:
The IOC said the Hungarian delegation claimed Fazekas "was a deeply religious person who has always had difficulty to produce a sufficient quantity of urine in front of sample collectors."It seems a bit harsh to take a gold medal away from a guy simply because he has a little stage fright. Medalists face not only the competition in their event, but also must qualify in the post-event urinary qualification. It is tragic that Fazekas' bladder was not up to medal specifications; However, the performance of the bladder is part of the competition in these Olympics:Fazekas provided 25 milliliters of urine, one-third short of the required minimum sample. He refused to give another sample, saying he wasn't feeling well, the IOC said.
Two doping control officials cited "suspicions and allegations concerning certain technical methods and devices which would be used by certain athletes in order to avoid delivery of their own urine," the IOC said.I don't even want to think about that one. The catheter sounds nasty enough without even considering injecting someone else's pee into my body.The IOC was referring to cases of athletes who try to beat drug tests by using catheters to inject "clean" urine into their bladders.
At least we know how much is in a load of urine: 75 ml or about 2.5 fl. oz.



