Besides equipment modern medical care and rehabilitation has greatly improved for athletes. Major and minor injuries which affected performance are now treated and with proper physical therapy athlete’s may function even better then before the injury. Many see physiological therapy even without injury to maximize their potential.
And we have a lot of PEDs also. They aren’t always detected.
But today they are controlled and tested for (to a degree, I admit), while back then (some) athletes took anything their “doctors” gave them to be faster, stronger or more persevering without a second thought.
Certainly no longer the heyday that PED usage was in the past. At the same time we know far more about to use them effectively now and they are part of the improved medical treatment. I wouldn’t call them PEDs so much in those circumstances since there will be sound medical reasons to use them for recovery and rehabilitation from injury instead of while performing.
Don Novello’s brother was married to Antonia Novello, Surgeon General of the US from 1990-1993. I guess I missed this tidbit in Father Guido Sarducci’s column in L’Osservatore Romano.
I wonder if Lazlo Toth ever wrote her a letter with suggestions for a new uniform.
Pietà? I thought you said piñata.
No. Lazlo Toth, American!
“You send out letters, you get back letters, that’s for sure!”
From the article, bolding mine:
Sama-Bajau are noted for their exceptional abilities in free-diving.[92] Divers work long days with the “greatest daily apnea diving time reported in humans” of greater than 5 hours per day submerged.[93] Some Bajau intentionally rupture their eardrums at an early age to facilitate diving and hunting at sea. Many older Sama-Bajau are therefore hard of hearing.[24][92]
The Sama-Bajau have spleens much larger than average “letting them store more haemoglobin-rich blood, which is expelled into the bloodstream when the spleen contracts at depth, allowing breath-holding dives of longer duration” (Quoted form Wiki article and Sama-Bajau above)
Sapporo Diet Water exists.
Is it literally called “diet” water? Because the “Diet” is the name of Japan’s national legislature.
A Diet is in general an obsolete term for a deliberative assembly: cite. The Japanese bicameral National Diet is just one of those, and it is called Kokkai in Japanese. Diet is just a translation. In Spanish it is called Dieta Nacional (probably via English), in German it is called Kokkai.
It is literally called “Diet Water”. Here is a Reddit link: Reddit - Dive into anything
And if you thought Kosher was weird, there’s those Lutherans with their Diet of Worms
You made me spill my whisky though my nose! 
In reply to the previous post
Today I learned you can see ancient river beds (a.k.a. “ghost river beds”) on Google Maps. As an example, go to Google Maps, switch to satellite view, and look at the area between Chillicothe, Ohio and the Ohio River. You’ll see a light-green old river bed snaking its way from Chillicothe down to Wheelersburg. Pretty cool.
I could fill this tread with just the stuff I learn from Andrew Hickey’s podcast. This one is from a Patreon bonus episode.
This obscure B-side from an obscure band may well be the most sampled record in History. The drum break around 1:25 turns up in:
“I Desire” by Salt n Pepa
“Straight Outta Compton” by NWA
“Do You Know What I Mean?” by Oasis
“Little Wonder” by David Bowie
The themes for Futurama and Powerpuff Girls
and hundreds of other places.
One YouTube commentator notes that the drummer on the record, Gregory Coleman “died homeless and destitute in 2006.”
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The Amen break has its own Wikipedia article