One of my interests in life is weightlifting. It's an unusual sport with only a fairly limited amount of publicity. The only goal is to lift more weight than your opponents. That's it. Simple. It is the test of absolute human physical effort. It's awesome to watch these people lifting incredible weights. I know that the sport at the pro level is awash with drugs. They are fairly open about that. There are "natural" events where lifters are tested to be drug free. I went to the Pro Raw Big Dogs event over the weekend. It was awesome. I think I was the only guy there who weighed less than 100kg, was clean shaven and had no face piercings or visible tattoos. --- 2017-10-16 bradmac@freeshell.org