Wednesday, October 17, 2012

Doping in Cycling Races

As a joke on this whole steroid abuse scandal in cycling, I would love to make a little video comedy sketch where two cyclists racing in the Tour de France are riding next to each other, and while they are riding, they’re each trying to inject the other one with a syringe of steroids, in order to try to get the other one disqualified. And so they’re essentially fencing with these syringes while they’re racing side-by-side, and right when it looks like one of them is about to win and inject the other one, someone rides up right behind that guy and shoots him up in the buttocks with a syringe of steroids, ruining his chance to strike, and making him curse in pain and surprise. And then the guy who shot him up whizzes past those two racers to lead the race. Then the camera pans back to show the rest of the field of cyclists racing, and they’re all holding syringes full of steroids trying to sneak up on each other and inject one another with steroids to disqualify them.

(This is based upon the idea that if someone tests positive for steroids, they get banned and lose, and since apparently everyone was cheating with performance-enhancing substances, it’s not really that much of a stretch to think that they might try to cheat by incriminating each other with steroids, and that the silliest way to show this would be with them actually trying to inject each other during the race. Also, it would be the ultimate excuse for testing positive: somebody else sabotaged me during the race! Or maybe they could even leave syringes on other riders’ bicycle seats, like when school kids put a tack on someone’s chair: when they sit down, the syringe would inject them with steroids in the buttocks.)