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ELISE: So of course I said it wasn’t everything I hoped it would be. It was horrible. Everything about it was horrible.

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JESSICA: This week on the show, US national champion, Olympic bronze medalist, and NCAA champion Elise Ray.

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JESSICA: This is episode 31 for May 1, 2013. I’m Jessica O’Beirne from masters-gymnastics.com.

BLYTHE: I’m Blythe from The Gymnastics Examiner

JESSICA: And this is the only gymnastics podcast ever. And the best. Today we’re bringing you a special show devoted exclusively to our interview with Elise Ray. Next week we will be back with our regular show. And we’re going to have a special show. Scott Bregman will be here from USA Gymnastics. And he and Uncle Tim will discuss men’s NCAA championships which is basically like a whole preview of the world championships in Belgium later this year. We’ll also have a special give away. We’re doing a special contest. We’ll announce the winners next week of our Gymnerd challenge for April, make a meme. Until then, I want to remind you guys that you can support the show by recommending it to a friend, you can rate us or write a review on iTunes, you can download the Stitcher app and listen to us there without using up any space on your phone or mobile device. And the other way you can support the show is by donating and thank you so so much to everybody who has donated so far. You can find the donate button on our website on our about page or on our side navigation. Thank you all so so much. Remember you guys can always contact us at gymcastic@gmail.com by calling 415-800-3191 or you can call on Skype if you’re abroad. If y

JESSICA: Before we start this week’s show, I just want to let you guys know that this show is rated PG-13. So our show’s always rated PG-13, I just haven’t taken full advantage of that yet. So just like movies like The Avengers, Harry Potter, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, and, of course, The Hunger Games, that means that occasionally you’ll hear a naughty word on the show. It also means that we will occasionally lift the veil, proverbial veil on gymnastics and show that gymnasts are just like any other jocks. And they’re also just like us because they talk like us. I think gymnastics sometimes suffers because it has this teeny-bopper goody two-shoes image and I think it’s really healthy for us to let people come on the show and be themselves. I wish I’d had a role model like Kyle when I was a kid. And I also feel like if you know one naughty word on this podcast, or three or four, is the worst thing that kids come across on the internet, as Dvora once said on the show, then thank God, because there are way worse things than a bad word on this show. This show’s a great influence I think. In the end I have to make a judgment call about when it feels right, and in this case, you know, I talked to Kyle about this after the show. And I was like podcasts are intimate, they’re not the same experience when you get when you’re watching a TV show or something. And because of this, because we’re not on live TV, because we’re not on a stage, we’re not in front of an audience, you know our guests can really be themselves and you get to experience them in a way that you normally wouldn’t. And so you know that means that we let them be themselves and use the language they want to use and talk the way they would with their friends. And with that, let’s begin. Hope you like it.
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KYLE: It’s the Olympics, you work your butt off for your entire life to be there, and you should be able to

Saint Kitts and Nevis sprinter Tameka Williams has been sent home from the London 2012 Olympic Games over an adverse drugs finding.

Williams, who is the national record holder in the women's 100m and 200m, left the athlete's village yesterday hours after taking part in the opening ceremony.

The Saint Kitts and Nevis Olympic Committee says Williams has not failed a drugs test.

It is understood the sprinter admitted to using an unnamed substance that "falls outside the accepted medical code".

The 22-year-old Williams was Saint Kitts and Nevis' only female athlete in the London Games athletics competition.

The athlete, whose self-dubbed nickname is "Madam Speedy", is reported to be devastated and has denied ever taking illegal substances to enhance her performances.

Meantime, a female gymnast from Uzbekistan has become the second doping case at the London Games.

Luiza Galiulina, 20, tested positive for the banned diuretic furosemide and has been suspended from competition until the results of a back up B sample.

The gymnast was due to start competing today.

The first doping expulsion at London 2012 took place yesterday with Albanian weightlifter Hysen Pulaku testing positive for the steroids

Use of banned athletic performance-enhancing drugs at the Olympics

Competitors at the Olympic Games have used banned athletic performance-enhancing drugs.

History

The use of performance-enhancing tactics or more formally known as PEDs, and more broadly, the use of any external device to nefariously influence the outcome of a sporting event has been a part of the Olympics since its inception in Ancient Greece. One speculation as to why men were required to compete naked was to prevent the use of extra accoutrements and to keep women from competing in events specifically designed for men. Athletes were also known to drink "magic" potions and eat exotic meats in the hopes of giving them an athletic edge on their competition. If they were caught cheating, their likenesses were often engraved into stone and placed in a pathway that led to the Olympic stadium. In the modern Olympic era, chemically enhancing one's performance has evolved into a sophisticated science, but in the early years of the Modern Olympic movement the use of performance-enhancing drugs was almost as crude as its ancient predecessors. For example, the winner of the marathon at the 1904 Games, Thomas Hicks, was given strychnine and brandy by his coach, even during the race.

During the early 20th century, many Olympic athletes discovered ways to improve their athletic abilities by boosting testosterone. As their methods became more extreme, it became increasingly evident that the use of performance-enhancing drugs was not only a threat to the integrity of sport but could also have potentially fatal side effects on the athlete. The only Olympic death linked to athletic drug use occurred at the Rome Games of 1960. During the cycling road race, Danish cyclist Knud Enemark Jensen fell from his bicycle and later died. A coroner's inquiry found that he was under the influence of amphetamine, which had caused him to lo