Ancient training manual discovered

[Johnka]

German archaeologists recently deciphered a marble tablet found at the Roman town of Alexandria Troas (Turkey). What was the Roman secret creating the best Olympians? Flogging them for poor performance.

It seems that little has changed over the last two millenia - sex and drugs are favorite pastimes for athletes:

The experts, who deciphered the 1800-year-old marble plate with the rules set out by Hadrian, said athletes caught living the high life by "drinking too much or womanising" instead of practising were whipped for being "undisciplined".

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[Jean-Paul]

Wow... What a find. I thought at first this was going to be some spoofy article written by TC.

Glad to see that things don't change much.

[Chris Correia]

We hit with sticks. Is that still considered flogging?

I wonder what the performance enhancing substances of the day were?

[Jason B]

Originally Posted by Chris Correia

We hit with sticks. Is that still considered flogging?

I wonder what the performance enhancing substances of the day were?

Oats.

[russ]

athletes caught living the high life by "drinking too much or womanising" instead of practising were whipped for being "undisciplined".

So true. Look what happened to Danny King just recently when he showed up to the gym after a night of heavy drinking:

[Mahler]

The only difference today is that the punshment IS the training.

[GG300]

Womanising and Drinking at least no one around here does any of that.

[finboy]

"The more things change, the more they stay the same."