Name: Mat Fraser on Doping in the Olympics
Uploaded: 2021-03-12T16:31:15.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Mat Fraser on Doping in the Olympics' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-03-12. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Mat Fraser on Doping in the Olympics' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-03-12. Transcript available.

the Joe Rogan experience but it's like USA is one of very few countries that
competes clean and so it's like how do you compete you know yeah so he had this
outside pressure of to like produce an athlete whether it was the right way or
wrong way isn't that fucked up that statement that you just said but I know
it to be true when you said the USA is one of the few countries that competes
clean that's it's actually true oh it's and so strange I remember at the Junior
Worlds that I competed that the winning guy in my weight class snatched more
than what I clean a jerked like this like 18 year old kid and he like power
snatched 155 kilos it was where's it from I want to say he was like somewhere
over
in Europe and I'm pretty sure it was like the whole podium got popped it's kind
of
like I remember like the 2008 Olympics like the 94 kilo class they started
testing down and it's like like currently it's like ninth place guy has the
bronze
medal because they just kept testing down down down so did they pop them right
after the competition or they pop them I think it's like years later because it's
like at the time with the drug they don't know how to test for right and so
they
save the samples and then years later they figure out how to test for this
stuff
did you see Icarus I I watched like the first bit of it uh yeah I haven't seen
the whole
thing yet it's fucking nuts yeah it's nuts I mean it's just crazy like if there's
a
sport with money people are gonna start bringing drugs into it well the the
crazy thing about
that was it was the Russian state sponsor they sponsored the entire dope they
they doped everyone
that guy uh Gregory uh Rechenkov yeah the guy who is the supposed anti-doping
guy from Russia
he said the only people they didn't dope were the figure skaters because uh
they they found that
the figure skating it actually interfered with uh fine motor skills really yeah
so so made the women
too manly so kind of funny about that my parents were both figure skaters whoa
and so they they're both
olympians 1976 like no yeah paris freestyle and my dad talks about like he
would be in the locker room
and like different countries they he was like they just had their syringes on
the on the bench oh
my god and he was like you'd come in after your session on the ice and he's
like the german team's
just there like like they're not even hiding it because it was legal it well
they didn't test yeah
they didn't know right you know but the american team did that too back then
supposedly oh really
yeah i was reading this thing about bruce jenner where they're talking about
all the that they gave
him when he was winning the decathlon and then they gave to every apparently
post when it was uh
post the the uh eastern europeans winning like a lot of weightlifting
competitions and then it was
clear that they were experiencing experimenting with different kinds of
steroids i remember reading the
article uh like they were testing it at york barbell and like i remember
reading these journal entries
from the lifters and some uh they they were bolting the bars like to the ground
or to squat racks and
they would take the drugs and then just push on the bars as hard as they can
because their theory was like
the heaviest bar you can lift is the one you cannot and it was like huh and
some of these lifters are
saying like yo these pills or these injections are where everything is coming
from like this is where
all my gains are coming from and then others were like no no it's the training
methodology like the
drugs have nothing to do with it i'm just hitting all these personal records
hmm yeah maybe a little bit
of both i think i think i know which one which one's helping out for sure sure
but i mean you know you
don't just taking the drugs doesn't make you stronger you have to actually lift
the weights yeah for sure
the drugs are helping like this the idea that the drugs don't help i've
actually seen someone argue
that before oh i that steroids are useless and if you train properly they
actually get in the way i was
like what are you talking about what are you talking yeah i mean there's been a
couple people that
like in crossfit that got popped and they're like oh the drugs weren't even
doing anything and it's
like oh silly boy of course they were yeah they work there's a reason why they're
so prevalent and
there's a reason why they test for them yeah they don't test for things that
don't work they're not
testing you for cheerios you know they're just they're testing you for that
really works i mean like
the one guy the one guy that he was on the podium at the games and then got
popped oh i competed against
them month like six or eight months prior and like the the one stat like he was
snatching like 260 or 265
and then he shows up to the games and snatches like 290 and he's taken he
almost hit 300 and he's like
no no the drugs had nothing to do with it it's like i bet they did yeah i don't
believe that
it's like like you've been in the sport for years like if you're just a
beginner you can make progress
like that but i'm like you've been in the sport for years yeah and then in the
last six months
you just had this huge spike in your performance and you're like oh no it's
just because i became
dedicated it's like i'm not buying it dedication yeah so important to be
dedicated now how often do
they test everybody i mean pretty often do they show up randomly yeah yeah so
we have out of competition
drug testing um you know it's like when i did weightlifting we we're on like
the nan program so no
advance notice so you had to give if you're in the olympic sports you're tested
by the olympic
association you have to give one hour a day of where you are and they show up
they don't call
nothing so like everyone put from like 5 to 6 a.m i'll be in my dorm room and
like if you're leaving
for the airport at like 4 50 you'll see someone sitting outside the dorm just
like looking at their
watch waiting for 5 a.m to hit and give the knock and like they'll follow you
they come with you to
school work doesn't matter what you're doing will they make you miss a flight
uh yeah probably i'd assume they would but i mean like i remember having to
talk to professors of like
i have an exam and like i didn't have to pee so i'm like the guy's got to come
to class with me
and having to like explain to a professor of like hey like these guys are here
for drug testing i
compete in the sport is it okay if they just sit there in wow yeah so the cross
creepy i mean it's
weird like i've had it before where they showed up at 5 a.m i didn't have to
pee and i'm like yo it's
5 a.m i'm going back to bed and they're they're like yep we'll sit right here
so they just sit in
the room while you're sleeping yeah they just pull up a chair and they'll just
sit there just stare at
you while you go back to bed how can you sleep while this guy just like put on
the tv or something for
him and like you just go back to bed i mean after a while you get used to it of
like the first time
having to take a drug test in front of someone it's weird like yeah they're
inspecting you they have to
look closely yeah making sure it's not rubber and uh and then i mean now it's
like i don't even break
conversation it's like it happens so often every competition out of competition
you get to know the
guy that's like in your region for drug testing did crossfit always have drug
testing i i don't know i
don't know enough about the history i think it's newer um but yeah with the
crossfit drug testing it's
i remember the first time i got drug tested when i first got on the sport i was
like i think these
guys are doping like i don't believe it and i didn't know about the drug
testing protocols
and then i had to sign up for it because i was doing well enough in the sport
and then i get a
phone call of like hey this is so and so from drug testing where your name got
pulled and i was i was
honestly excited because i'm like oh sweet they do regulate this this is great
so i was like yeah
i'm at the address that i listed come on in doors unlocked and he's like oh no
no we'll be there tomorrow
i'm like what i'm like you're called you're giving me a day's notice i don't
like that at all like you
can flush your system out in a day right a lot of things i have to assume that
if if you know what
you're doing you have a plan b like you have to assume that you're going to get
tested at some point
right how can they i know that the usada stopped allowing people to use ivs
because one of the things
they said about ivs that allows you to flush your system out you can test
negative i never knew the
reasoning i remember it was coming up like those iv bars that like they just
jam pack it full of
vitamins and whatever like these super doses and it's like started it's like a
hangover cure right
right um and i remember that was getting pitched like other people around me
were doing them and
they're like you should do this and i'm like all right my livelihood depends on
not breaking the
rules so i'm like and i'm contacting people at crossfit like hey is this
allowed and it's like
right there in the rule book of like no ivs over 50 milliliters or something
equivalent to like a
tablespoon or two tablespoons so i was like okay that's not allowed not doing
that but yeah i mean
so you can't even do iv vitamin trips interesting yeah but you can do some ivs
like i said no ivs i
think if it's a medical emergency so like if you're super dehydrated yeah so
like if you're in trouble
and like getting hospitalized or like there's a a need for it i think it's
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