Jesse Owens. Should the 1936 US Olympics team be posthumously stripped of their medals for cheating with Benzedrine drugs?

[USLegionary]

Turns out the Nazi in 2nd place won🥇

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-scientific-american-guide-to-cheating-in-the-olympics/

Yes if they cheated

No because Nazis bad

Don't care

[Weapon77]

I don't really care. Things that far in the last literally don't matter anymore, so dwelling on it is fun trivia at best (because it's trivial). Sure, they might've been cheating with drugs, but we don't know how many others were cheating. I find it hard to believe that Nazis forced their men to take cocaine and other shit to stay awake during the war but suddenly decided to play fair during the Olympics.

[USLegionary]

The Olympics convinced them

[Staximus]

Pretty sure they were all on it, not just him. There has always been cheaters at the top level of any kind of competitive sport, game, race, etc. It's like you were never going to be competitive in any sport during the 80's and 90's unless you did steroids. Back in the early 1900's they used to put cocaine up the nose of racehorses right before the race, the jockeys would whip each other, etc. There's always cheaters. Always.

[USLegionary]

I think the mob used to decide the winner of horse races

[HippieVeganJewslim]

Why should using drugs making it illegal? They only make the player better at the sport.

[USLegionary]

Drugs beat the nazis

[HippieVeganJewslim]

Das ist eine gute Sache!

[Guy13]

Too much to deal with in present to worry about 1936

[Adaeva]

Of course not. They didn't violate the rules in effect at the time. Beside, it is likely that no one from the 1936 is still living. I am opposed to rewriting history books.

[GoodGuyBreakingBad]

Yes, if they cheated with the use of Benzos

[Pudsmucker]

If they took some kind of illegal substance they should lose their medals.

[BeMuse]

You don't think the Nazis were on Pervitin?

[BeMuse]

Germany was the center of the world cocaine trade in the late 1920s to early 1930s along with many drugs. The Nazis were fucking addicts of every sort.

[USLegionary]

After the success of the US Olympic team yes. German army was issued it. Its a little known part of blitzkrieg

[BeMuse]

Not just the German Army. It was even a standard drug given to house wives to be more efficient at cleaning the house. Soldiers brought it from their civilian life during the first invasions. Then the military began issuing it believing it had some benefit in combat before realizing the side effects and how crashing from it could negatively impact men in the field. The Weimar Republic/Nazi Germany was a drug fuel culture. They bought something like 90% of the Peruvian cocaine crop. They were neck deep in opiates. During the mid to late 1920s there were enormous profits in The Weimar Republic due to drug exports. Drug dens and gay orgy houses were everywhere. The entire culture was a perverted commie shit hole.

[BeMuse]

*fueled

[BeMuse]

They would boost Hitler up with a cocktail of random drugs every day. They used concentration camp labor to manufacture drugs for IG Farben-Bayer and other pharma companies.

[BeMuse]

Soldiers and doctors that were assigned to concentration camps to carry out genocide were often given Pervitin due to it's dissociative properties. It made it easy to kill people without feeling anything. After Nazi scientists were scooped up by the USA during Germany's fall, those same Nazi doctors/scientists under project paperclip were the foundation for the MK Ultra Project and later derivatives like Project Monarch.

[Sevenpointfive]

if they cheated then yes they should

[strateguy632]

yawn