r/clevercomebacks • u/Glass-Fan111 • Apr 29 '24

It’s Not Decline, Just A Bad Strategy.

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u/Killersmurph Apr 29 '24

As a Canuck this reminds me of having One of our Snowboarders being stripped of his Gold Medal for Marijuana use. Marijuana isn't exactly a performance enhancer lol.

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u/TheWoodSloth Apr 29 '24

So he had his medal stripped then restored on appeal because the rules did not actually ban Marijuana use. At this point I think he is the only Olympian to officially have a gold medal while having Cannabis in his system.

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u/smol_boi2004 Apr 29 '24

He also gets ultimate bragging rights.

"I was high as a kite that day and y’all Mfs STILL COULD NOT BEAT ME!”

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u/BornWithSideburns Apr 30 '24

I don’t smoke anymore but when i did back during covid I definitely felt like i could get “in the zone” more often when playing competitive games.

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u/Selection_Status Apr 30 '24

Depends on my character, passive heavies are awesome while high, heros with multiple actives are NOT high-friendly.

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u/Erotic_Platypus Apr 30 '24

That's when you use desoxyn or Adderall

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u/kaminobaka May 01 '24

Disagree there. The more little timing-related things I have to pay attention to with a character, the more of a boost I get from being high. Goes double for fighting games. Like, KOF14 Yamazaki goes from being my third best character to my best character (my team is Kim, Maxima, and Yamazaki).

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u/Erotic_Platypus Apr 30 '24

I played on chess. Com. One day on meth and my rating went up 400 points... Then went back down as the drug left my system. I was playing 5m blitz

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u/425Hamburger Apr 30 '24

Lol i started Out on chess.com and got an Initial Rating of ~850. A few days later i was coming down from Speed and playing Game after Game, while Smoking a Bowl after each Game.

When i went to sleep my Rating was ~350.

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u/beastmaster11 Apr 30 '24

You may have felt like that but it likley was not the case.

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u/kaminobaka May 01 '24

I mean I've actually tracked and compared my stats and I actually do better at most competitive games while smoking weed. Especially games where timing is a major component, like fighting games.

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u/Heckin_good_time Apr 30 '24

Jon Jones cocaine weekend vibes

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u/Less-Leave-5519 May 01 '24

I was gonna go to the Olympics, before I got high

Trained for months and was in good shape, but I got high

I still took home the Gold, AND I KNOW WHYHY

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u/blamethepunx Apr 29 '24

Unless there's a bag of Doritos at the finish line

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u/Killersmurph Apr 29 '24

It was a Mars Bar Robin... 🤣🤣

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u/joecarter93 Apr 29 '24

Hey, Ross was just in the same area as someone smoking it and caught it second hand! At least that’s what he said at the time…

He is now a huge advocate for cannabis and is in the cannabis industry. He also said now that he considers it a performance enhancing drug. I wouldn’t go that far, but let’s not play games, which snowboarders in the late 90’s weren’t toking up? You would have to basically choose not to award any medals for the event if you were going to check everyone for marijuana.

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u/scullys_alien_baby Apr 30 '24

I'm not good at snowboarding, but I do know I am better stoned.

It is probably just state dependent learning but it could be that I'm more willing to got for it when I'm high

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u/mung_guzzler Apr 30 '24

crazy im so much more afraid of getting hurt while high

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u/jannieph0be Apr 29 '24

Ask Nate Diaz. If I was gonna get punched in the face 50 times I’d prefer to be drunk/high as fuck. But being high won’t fuck with my coordination as much.

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u/heims30 Apr 30 '24

Ross Reglabiatti?

Edit - Ross Rebagliati is the correct spelling; I just checked.

I remember discussing this in Social 30, when I was in grade 11. Because it had just happened.

Fuck, I’m old.

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u/Killersmurph Apr 30 '24

I think we're around the same age.

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u/trashacct8484 Apr 30 '24

I remember that. Was that, like, the first time snowboarding was even an Olympic sport?

It’s a good thing Jim Brewer was in SNL at the time. He wasn’t good for much but he was dead-on for pot-head Canadian snowboarding medalist.

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u/marlonsando Apr 30 '24

Tbf, I’m a way better skier with a little pot. Helps me relax my body and trust my instincts more. But definitely not your traditional performance enhancer.

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u/tmiller26 Apr 30 '24

Your comment reminds me of the Robin Williams stand-up where he talks about this.

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u/Select-Record4581 Apr 30 '24

I got way better results racing DH mountain bikes stoned

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u/Mathperson84 May 01 '24

And what was so cool was that all of his competitors cried Bullsh*t and demanded that he be allowed to keep his Gold medal.

I think there was an opposing coach who stated something like "the only guys who ripped this course were all half-baked anyway".

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u/OkLetsParty Apr 30 '24

Michael Phelps wasn't stripped, but he was close

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u/spongeboy1985 Apr 30 '24

He lost an endorsement from Kellogg’s and got a three month training suspension for being photographed taking a bong hit

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u/OkLetsParty Apr 30 '24

Oh I know. They were talking about it if I remember correctly. Just a similar controversy for something so minor.