Higher, Faster, Stronger. But mainly Higher.

The scourge of banned drugs will never again blight a modern Olympics, summer or winter.
The International Olympic Committee has decided at a meeting in Lucerne that all countries can use whatever drugs they can concoct to make their athletes go higher, faster, stronger.
The decision was taken after a spate of positive drug tests took some of the gloss off the recently-completed Sydney Games.
It is, in effect, an admission by the IOC that not only has the cost of testing for banned drugs become prohibitive but that testing methods simply cannot keep pace with the new designer drugs being pumped out of the world's laboratories, both government-sanctioned and private.
The "Drugs are now OK" edict was pushed through the IOC meeting by its vice president, Canadian Dick Pound. His victory on this controversial issue strengthens his chances of taking over when current President Juan Antonio Samaranch abdicates in the middle of next year to finally spend more time with his wife and family.
"Our message to competitors at Athens in four years time – and at the winter games at Salt Lake City in between – is simple: pop 'em, inject 'em, wear 'em as patches if you want til you drop if you think it's going to help you."
Pound said IOC members had decided that, instead of looking at the downside of widespread drug taking in sport, "let's see what advances can be made in sports performance and an understanding of the physical capacities of the human body by the use of whatever drugs the companies can come up with".
"It's like the United States space program of the 60s," Pound explained. "Sure it cost a lot of money and a lot of people were opposed to it, but it did give us many advantages now taken for granted in every-day life, such as Teflon coating and the Apollo 13 movie."
Pound paid tribute to the United States Athletics Association for working tirelessly behind the scenes to get the new ruling through.
"The USAA first came to me during the Sydney Games and they were absolutely livid with the world-record times being set over and over again by Dutch couple Inge de Bruijn and Pieter van den Hoogenband in the Sydney Olympic pool.
"They said the USAA's medical advisers had told the US team it was absolutely impossible to take pseudo-methlyappleline-hydrate4-complexB2 version1.2 to that extent without it being detected – or fatal. As a result, the US team was restricted to half what the Dutch pair were injecting on the orders of Pieter's dad, the sports doctor at PSV Eindhoven where both swimmers train.
"That Aussie boy Thorpe was shattered too," Pound said. "He was using even less than the Americans because he was concerned about how fast his foot size was growing. And he ended up losing his 200m crown and world record as a result."
Pound said he had heeded the USAA's plea that all the world's sports people should be able to use the latest drug enhancements available.
"When you think about it, there's the greatest sports nation in the world saying, 'let's make it an even playing field. Just because we've got the money and technical know-how to get our athletes to pop thousands of legal pills a day to supplement naturally-produced performance enhancers and get away with it even though it might make their hymens misty, why should the Bulgarian weight lifters be banned as a team just because the poor bastards are still using 60s drugs that are now, finally, being detected?'.
Pound added: "I was rendered a little emotion, I must admit, when the USAA officials came up to me in Catalina's restaurant and said, 'Dick, the US winning the most gold medals isn't the most important thing at the Olympics; it's time all the nations can compete as equals'."
Pound said a classic example was the embarrassing sight at the Olympic pool of Eric "the Eel" Moussambani from some forgettable African country struggling to complete 100 metres of the pool.
"As far as we know, Eric was the only poor bastard at the Olympics not on drugs," Pound said. "His wasn't a bad time all things considered."
The IOC vice-president said a "Drugs are OK Policy" would have prevented a series of other drug scandals at the Sydney Olympics, including:
. World shot put champion Mr Marion Jones showing the world's media a series of needle puncture marks and claiming they were a knee surgery scar, after testing positive for having 1000 times the allowed amount of the steroid nandrolone in the average body and three times in his.
.the Hungarian hammer thrower and gold-medal favourite Mihaela Leminte, being ordered off the field just before the start of competition after she allegedly tested positive for steroids abuse and eating more than half of her spare hammer-chain during the warmups.
.French sprint star Marie Jose Perec's emotional pre-race flight from the Olympic Village and Australia after allegedly being accosted at her hotel in Darling Harbour and getting another women on the French team pregnant.
.The Rumanian gymnast Andreaa Raducan being stripped of her individual gold medal after her team doctor foolishly gave her pseudo-ephedrine when what she wanted was the real thing.
.The entire China swimming team missing the Olympics after turning up at Peking Airport and discovering they'd forgotten their passports.