Did that Russian pole vaulter cheat? I mean we came in second...did she swallow helium prior to her vault?

Question

There has to be a rational explanation...please, please...help me out here.

Answer 1

Of coz she cheated, she beat the americans.  

Answer 2

I think she did cheat. That whole blanket thing was the most bizarre thing I've seen in the olympics. They should have never allowed her to use the blanket, who knows what she was doing under there, someone should have put a stop to it. She's a professional athlete, if she can't compose herself without her blanky she shouldn't be there.  

Answer 3

xD

Answer 4

Sorry she is just THAT good!

She has set the last  6 world records,  The U.S. vaulter got her PO'd by saying the U.S. was going to kick some Russian butt!

Answer 5

Of course Russian pole vaulter Yelena Isinbaeva cheated when she broke her own world record and is still the only woman to clear 5 metres.

Every time she lay under her blanket to compose herself before her jumps, she was inhaling a prescribed gas of helium and oxygen. It is a well known cheating method for russian pole vaulters. Just Google it and you will find heaps of russian websites that describe this technique. Of course you need to be able to read Russian or use a translation service. What it does is it fills the lungs with gas and hence enables an uplift over the bar. Also she was drinking heaps of lemonade infused with concentrated amounts of oxygen.

Americans never take performance enhancing drugs do they...

Answer 6

possibly, they don't test for helium,

but you really shouldn't call some a cheat just because they won, that's kind of unsportsmanlike like the guys in Spain are.

Answer 7

I thought it was only the Chinese who cheated? or was it the Greeks?

Answer 8

lol did she beat the Americans? well then there must be foul-play involved...

Answer 9

LMAO...

Answer 10

she was better. the end.

Occam's Razor.