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Re:Chess’s Cheating Crisis by AtlasBarfed on Monday October 19, 2020 @12:53PM (#24828206)
With the carbon fiber shoes, there is now essentially mechanical, uh, "assistance" in running.

Improvement of equipment is always a massive gray area. Cycling (aside from electric motors) has aerodynamic bikes, wind tunnel access. XC skiing has environmentally bad teflon wax. Swimming, theoretically the most naked/equipment-less sport, has sharkskin suits and buoyancy aids.

There are other advantages like expensive altitude tents.

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Re:Chess’s Cheating Crisis by medium_burrito on Monday October 19, 2020 @02:13PM (#24829111)
Wax and aerodynamic equipment certainly make a difference, but a bucket of fresh Amgen red blood cells is even better- and for cycling at least, works uphill, whereas aero doesn't matter under 18mph.
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