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9. Popeye takes weightlifting Gold amid doping claims.
Sat Aug 4, 2012, 09:44 AM
Aug 2012

Popeye angrily denied doping claims last night after winning a succession of gold medals at the Olympic weightlifting.

Judges became suspicious after the ageing and visibly out of condition sailor underwent a remarkable transformation moments into the competition, after ingesting a large quantity of what he later claimed was spinach in a pause between lifts.

One judge commented, ‘It was incredible – the guy ate a whole tin of this green substance – through a pipe – in about two seconds, and went on to lift almost eight times his own bodyweight in the next round. I mean, we almost ran out of weights – he was just balancing them on his finger like a bread-stick. The idea that a chain smoking, 55 year old sailor could give that kind of performance unaided simply defies belief.’

http://www.newsbiscuit.com/2012/08/01/popeye-takes-weightlifting-gold-amid-doping-claims/

In the men's Imitiating James Mason all contestants were classed as complete pants with all medals awarded posthumously to James Mason.

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