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You Can't Even Trust Horses These Days
The Sporting Blog — Four horses have tested positive for performance-enhancing substances at the Olympics and will be disqualified, including a horse from Norway who may have been the horse ridden during the bronze medal effort in an equestrian event. (It being Norwegian, you can get one positive thing from this story: the state of Norway paid for its prohibited drug, whatever it was, because they have socialized medicine. No American tax dollars wasted, dammit.) ...

Four Horses Banned From Olympics Jumping for Doping
Larry Brown Sports — ... over my conjecture that half the athletes in the games — if not more — are on something illegal. Just read Game of Shadows to answer all your track questions, and take your wildest guess about wrestlers, martial artists, rowers, and basically anything else where additional strength can help you. And as nieve as it sounds, I can’t get used to the fact that people would actually be pumping horses with illegal steroids. Gross. But apparently it’s happened and caused horses to be kicked out of the games: ...