It’s official. Win gold at the Olympics with Cialis

There are now new uses for existing drugs (and some new drugs) that will fly under the radar of the World Anti-Doping Agency’s tests. Perhaps some of the better informed athletes have been using these techniques at the Olympics at Beijing (all of us know besides, that there are nine million bycycles in Beijing). If so, we’ll never know.

So what are these new methods? Well, let’s start with the go-faster tattoos. I really like these extreme ideas. Researchers at the Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum - the cancer research center in Germany - have shown that tattooing is sixteen times more effective than injections in delivering a drug into the body.

But the most interesting ideas are the use of Cialis and nitrous oxide gas. The point is that both operate as vascular dilators - they open up your blood vessels. Blood flows increase and bring more oxygen to those working muscles faster. The advantage of Cialis is that it stays in the body for longer - it’s not called the “weekend” pill for nothing.

So the next time you see a runner coming down the street towards you covered in tattoos, popping pills and breathing from a gas canister, don’t be afraid. It’s just another sportsman.