This was found at Russian Swimming. The coin next to the hand is a Russian Ruble for scale purposes. Here is a link to Russian Swimming detailing how Vlad Savich was identified as a gene doper. Apparently his hands were the give-a-way! Duh! Look at those things, they are the size of a hand paddle.You would think gene dopers would go for a more internal approach such as altering the red blood cell count but these webbed hands executed through cadaver grafts and immune system modification are summarily chimeric.
Right now the site is getting pretty hammered so you may have a long wait trying to get through. I will see if I can find a mirror site. Here is a direct link or you can copy/paste the link below: [Link] http://www.swimming.ru/index.html
Thanks to Diana Drozdovska who provided the link and translation.
3 comments:
Lets hope that's an April Fools hoax
SSSSSH!
Wouldn't it be a blast to see someone actually show up on the blocks beside you with webbed feet and hands! Gills would be a spectacular bonus! I wonder what it would cost to have a couple of minutes of special effects showing a swimmer from nowhere at a nothing meet (say Uzbekistan) but clearly with webbed feet and hands plus working gills, swim a 23 something 100 meter freestyle (basically porpoising throughout the race) and then say that FINA was holding up the world record ratification pending an investigation into possible gene doping! Wouldn't that clip make the rounds!
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