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From the "you-can't-make-this-up" files, I have some bizarre news on the new ultra weird way for Olympic athletes to get a big time edge. Apparently, it's been discovered that inserting performance-enhancing drugs through tattoo needles increases the effect of the drugs. By how much you ask? By a ton.
Research in Germany has shown that delivering DNA vaccines via tattoo was 16 times more effective than injecting through the muscles or veins as the vibrating tattoo needle prepares the body's immune system and increases the body's response to the drug.
What this means is that athletes can take smaller doses and "fly under the radar" in dope tests. Of course, there's the dead give away on your body of a tattoo. So, if you're attempting to do this, I'd advise against you getting "I use PEDs" tattooed on your bicep.
But here's my question. How in the hell did anyone find out about this? I mean, this is perhaps the weirdest way to cheat I've heard of in forever. And unless someone said to themselves, "Hey, maybe if I tat myself with PEDs, it'll help even more!" I can't see how anyone came to this conclusion. I'd love to have been a fly on the wall when this technique was discovered. Chances are it involved a weighlifter and a heroin addict.
In addition to the bizarre tattoo deal, athletes are also combining the erectile dysfunction drug Viagra with doses of nitrous oxide, or laughing gas. Both drugs increase the flow of oxygen in the blood stream and therefore boost sporting performance.
So if you see any athlete on the gold medal stand with a raging hard-on while laughing uncontrollably, odds are pretty good he cheated.
So yeah, should be an awesome Olympics, to say the least.
Olympic athletes using use "drug tattoos" to cheat at winning gold [Sky News]
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