Team USA for the Paris Olympics has dissolved after bagging gold against the hosting nation in the Finals. However, the fun is not over yet, as the offseason is still on. And the comic duo Kevin Durant and Anthony Edwards did not fail to deliver off the court as well. After securing the fifth consecutive gold medal for Team USA in basketball, no doubt the team called for a big celebration. But Ant-Man and KD could not live it well as per their latest revelation. Was it just a joke or a sarcastic humor?
In their recent appearance with Jalen Rose on a panel, the Wolves star and Durant shared a lot of banters on the stage. However, one of the post-victory statements that Anthony Edwards said left fans in splits. “Really celebrating the locker room for real cuz me and Steph had to take like a drug test or something. It’s only right. They gave Steph one, “ Anthony Edwards went on with his funny rant. Further moving ahead with his jibe on Curry, Edwards said, “He was supposed to got one after the first Serbia game.”
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What Edwards was implying there was about Stephen Curry‘s performance against Serbia in the semi-finals. Chef Curry cooked the Serbian squad solely with his nine three points, stacking up 36 points. Apparently, his performance was so unbelievable that Anthony Edwards believed he should have gone through a drug test. Obviously, it was to check if the Golden Boy was on performance-inducing drugs. However, it was all just a funny exchange on the stage. Even Kevin Durant went like, “What?!!…” when Edwards mentioned the “drug test” on the panel.
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Though Edwards revealed the facts in a casual way, did the athletes really get tested in the Paris Olympics?
Anthony Edwards was not joking about the drug test!
Apparently, what Anthony Edwards said on the panel was just a casual banter. However, he was not completely wrong about it. Doping is not allowed in the Olympics, as we all know. That’s why, in 1999, the World Anti-Doping Agency came into power to maintain discipline at Summer games. So, from the perspective of the United States, every athlete goes through a test who is “participating at an event or competition sanctioned.”
And this includes both the Olympics and Paralympic athletes. These players go through in and out-of-competition drug tests at intervals as per the schedule of the testing agency. However, the selection is random in such tests. The players who carry a high probability are the ones securing the top spots. For example, Team USA must have gone through a test before and after the Paris Olympics final to test their doping level.
No doubt they got out clear. That’s why Anthony Edwards and Kevin Durant were able to ride their jibes. But it was hilarious how Edwards was presenting such a serious piece of info to the fans in his way. That’s Anthony Edwards for you. Keep visiting our page to get more of such updates from the hooping world.