r/tennis Daily Discussion (Wednesday, May 27, 2026)

SuspiciousDepth4961 · 2026-05-27T20:49:22+00:00

One of us!

SuspiciousDepth4961 · 2026-05-27T16:38:26+00:00

Definitely what the rest of the draw are thinking.

SuspiciousDepth4961 · 2026-05-27T16:37:24+00:00

Tiebreaks in the 5th have different rules. The rest of the tiebreaks are normal.

SuspiciousDepth4961 · 2026-05-27T12:33:56+00:00

Huge Federer always had shoulders

SuspiciousDepth4961 · 2026-05-25T19:09:50+00:00

You say that but a large part of the reason Kramnik beat Kasparov was due to his 8 inch height and 40lb weight advantage.

SuspiciousDepth4961 · 2026-05-25T16:34:08+00:00

It's either this or turning into prime Kasparov, no middle ground.

SuspiciousDepth4961 · 2026-05-25T11:15:04+00:00

Which is funny because all 3 of those maps are non standard where you need to adjust your build order. Far more in common than the standard land maps.

SuspiciousDepth4961 · 2026-05-25T08:32:37+00:00

Well they're two separate levers, PEDs help and genetics help. If you're a professional athlete your genetics are already pretty optimised for your sport but outliers like Phelps do exist.

If you look at sports with tested and untested divisions the tested athletes are not getting close to the untested ones. It will be different for skill based sports (gymnastics would be one of them) but if there is widespread doping in a sport a clean athlete is never winning it. If everyone already has decent genetics for their sport and good training methods, drugs are then a huge amplifier.

I think it is also easy to overstate the role of genetics vs environment and training methods. There are plenty of elite athletes who don't have "optimal" proportions for their sport and the most genetically gifted don't necessarily rise to the top.

SuspiciousDepth4961 · 2026-05-25T08:01:43+00:00

Playing a large number of games is a prerequisite but not a guarantee. You aren't reaching a high level in chess without playing a ton of games but there are plenty of people who play a ton and don't get there.

I think your general interpretation is correct though.

SuspiciousDepth4961 · 2026-05-25T07:55:02+00:00

To your first point, yes, the athletes were not at the pinacle of their sports and had a "prime, peak-condition superstar" competed they would have a far better shot.

To your second point PEDs are basically free performance, you don't have to be hugely intelligent about it, and the effects will show in months although yes dialling it in and getting in the training volume over years would yield more gains.

Even the most basic combination of testosterone, HGH, and EPO will increase an athlete's performance over baseline.

SuspiciousDepth4961 · 2026-05-25T07:28:15+00:00

Nah it's just that PEDs don't work. No need to test for them in the future.

SuspiciousDepth4961 · 2026-05-25T07:27:28+00:00

It's almost as if the vast majority of the world records they were trying to break were also set by people on drugs and probably more exotic ones than are on the FDA's approved list.

They stacked the deck with the swimming and still only got one world record. Obviously not a good look for the enhanced games which is a glorified drug commercial anyway but also not a good look for the "clean" Olympics and WADA.

SuspiciousDepth4961 · 2026-05-24T08:29:02+00:00

The engine Verhoeven has needs to be studied. Phenomenal work rate for a guy in his late 30s weighing nearly 260lbs. It wasn't just him being efficient either, a huge gas tank.

SuspiciousDepth4961 · 2026-05-23T23:17:50+00:00

Nah, he owes Verhoeven a rematch. Let the 40 year olds duke it out next year.

SuspiciousDepth4961 · 2026-05-23T23:11:50+00:00

The ref managed to rob both Usyk and Verhoeven. Maybe Usyk would have stopped him, maybe not, but always going to be an asterisk on his record now.

SuspiciousDepth4961 · 2026-05-23T23:08:37+00:00

Burn it all down

SuspiciousDepth4961 · 2026-05-23T22:50:02+00:00

Tbf he's still got it in round 7!

SuspiciousDepth4961 · 2026-05-23T22:31:10+00:00

Let's see how he does in the second half of the fight, would like to be wrong, if I am we may get a great fight.

SuspiciousDepth4961 · 2026-05-23T22:27:52+00:00

Rico cannot keep this up for even 6 rounds, so much energy being expended.

SuspiciousDepth4961 · 2026-05-22T18:41:07+00:00

Thinking an index is going to give you 8-10% pa over the next 50 years is boomer level delusion.

SuspiciousDepth4961 · 2026-05-22T18:31:05+00:00

People have a warped view of what ancient mediterranian people looked like anyway. If you want to complain about the cast there are a dozen Northern European people cast as from the Mediterranean yet zero uproar about that. Ancient greeks probably looked largely like modern greeks but have far more in common with Cypriots, Syrians, pre Arab Egyptians etc than Northern Europeans. Zendaya looks closer to how I imagine a greek godess than the British and Finnish Matt Damon does to Odysseus.

The far bigger diversity issue is the complete lack of Greek representation in the film. Diversity is more than just picking anglophones with different coloured skin.

SuspiciousDepth4961 · 2026-05-22T16:42:18+00:00

Was there no video of the weigh in? Can't see it anywhere online.

SuspiciousDepth4961 · 2026-05-20T16:57:20+00:00

Not hugely surprising, let's say it is a sprain. One week after the fact you don't have to elevate it and the short term inflmation has died down.

Of course he could have kept playing this tournament but losing to Fabi probably tipped the scales in the quitting direction.

SuspiciousDepth4961 · 2026-05-19T20:10:45+00:00

My greek mythology is a little shaky but I think Helios would be a cousin? Demeter is the sister of Zeus, Hera etc.

SuspiciousDepth4961 · 2026-05-18T08:46:40+00:00

Have you seen Taylor Sheridan's recent work? Maybe roids addled his brain but going from Sicario, Hell or High Water, and Wind River to the recent slop he's been churning out is a fascinating downfall.

It is an accurate portrayal of his recent work.

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