WEEKLY GROSS-OUT: Doping

Doping is not cool. It gives athletes an unfair advantage and has been responsible for many an occasion where a drug cheat's national anthem has been played at a medal ceremony instead of that of a non-doper who was more deserving of the gold all along. And that, my friends, is why the International Olympic Committee has stripped American cyclist Tyler Hamilton of his 2004 gold due to doping and ordered him to return the medal that he won in the Athens Olympics. The IOC also ruled that the riders who finished behind Hamilton (i.e. all of them) in the individual time trial in Athens will now be moved up in placement. That means Ekimov Viatcheslav Ekimov of Russia will now get the gold medal, Bobby Julich of America will get the silver, and Michael Rogers of Australia will now get the bronze.