Theyre also a harsh reminder of the performance-enhancing drugs athletes use to win gold.
Theres a long history of athletes circumventing the rules, Oliver explained on Sundays episode ofLast Week Tonight.
In the 1904 Olympics, one of the marathon runners rode 11 miles in a car.
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Today, the cheating goes far deeper.
Enter anti-doping chaperones, who have the job of making the sure the athletes dont cheat their drug tests.
Things can get even more awkward when they must maintain unobstructed views while collecting urine samples.
(That last one was thrown in for laughs, of course.)
Find out what he has in mind in the clip below.
