{"id":68001,"date":"2018-11-20T14:46:12","date_gmt":"2018-11-20T13:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/11\/20\/beers-on-ice-canadian-curlers-show-why-sport-and-alcohol-dont-mix-well-andy-bull\/"},"modified":"2018-11-20T14:46:12","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T13:46:12","slug":"beers-on-ice-canadian-curlers-show-why-sport-and-alcohol-dont-mix-well-andy-bull","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=68001","title":{"rendered":"Beers on ice: Canadian curlers show why sport and alcohol don\u2019t mix well | Andy Bull"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The antics of a curling team in Alberta\u2019s Red Deer Classic saw them end up in hot water after they were thrown out of a competition for being somewhat worse for wearEach winter the World Anti-Doping Agency publishes an updated list of prohibited substances. Last year they made one major change, though no one really noticed them do it. They decided to lift their ban on alcohol which had been in place since the Agency was formed in 1999. Wada argued that you don\u2019t need a laboratory test to tell whether someone\u2019s drunk, and besides the change only affected the four sports, archery, air sports, automobile racing and powerboating, who rigorously enforce the ban on the understandable grounds that aeroplanes, arrows, speed boats, and sports cars don\u2019t make great chasers.Of course Wada isn\u2019t in the business of regulating performance inhibitors. And, after many centuries of diligent research, there\u2019s now a broad understanding that while alcohol may do wonders for your libido, temper and estimation of your own talents and abilities, it doesn\u2019t do much for your athletic prowess. Different sports reached this conclusion at different times. Marathon runners were still using booze to fortify themselves during races in the 1900s, footballers were still taking occasional snifters of brandy to revive themselves at half-time in the 1950s, cyclists were still swigging champagne on mountain climbs in the 1970s. The list gets shorter every decade. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/blog\/2018\/nov\/20\/beers-on-ice-canadian-curlers-alcohol-red-deer-classic\" target=\"_blank\">Beers on ice: Canadian curlers show why sport and alcohol don\u2019t mix well | Andy Bull<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The antics of a curling team in Alberta\u2019s Red Deer Classic saw them end up in hot water after they were thrown out of a competition for being somewhat worse for wearEach winter the World Anti-Doping Agency publishes an updated list of prohibited substances. Last year they made one major [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68001\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}