On: Athletics at the 1904 Summer Olympics: Men's Marat...

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> While Fred Lorz was greeted as the apparent winner, he was later disqualified as he had hitched a ride in a car for part of the race.

and

> The actual winner, Thomas Hicks, was near collapse and hallucinating by the end of the race, a side effect of being administered brandy, raw eggs, and strychnine by his trainers.

What in the world

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'It was a different time'

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There’s a great photo from the 70s of a football player resting during the super bowl halftime, enjoying a smoke and a beer

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Here's a picture of the Italian sprinter Cipollini smoking a cigarette during a Tour de France stage in 95.

https://bicyclingaustralia.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/02...

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While cycling! I would think the wind probably smoked most of the cigarette for him

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Likewise, here's Johan Cruyff, arguably the greatest soccer football player of his time, smoking at half time of the 74 world cup final.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DVjC1SIWkAU1MCQ?format=jpg&name=...

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This is actually Reinout Scholten van Aschat, a Dutch actor who played Cruyff in a TV series

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Thank you! I did wonder why it was such a good quality image from the 70s. He was a famous smoker though of course.

More recently, Dimitar Berbatov was a known regular smoker. Also Jack Grealish but I think that's just when he's out drinking.

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Not a beer, but a soft drink (https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/just-because-len-dawson-e...)

And that wasn’t exceptional. See for example https://smoking-room.net/johan-cruyff-smoking-and-football/

And that’s decades before the publication of “Cigarette smoking: an underused tool in high-performance endurance training” (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3001541/) ;-)

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> Improper correlation or extrapolation of data can result in dangerously flawed conclusions. The following paper seeks to illustrate this point

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Len Dawson of the Kansas City Chiefs. He just passed away last week.

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Yeah, it's not like now where they just give them EPO, insulin, HGH, thyroid meds, and ECA.