Teh One Who Knocks
10-06-2014, 11:06 AM
Matt Payton for Metro.co.uk
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As anyone who ever attempted it will tell you, milking a cow is a true art and these people travel all over the world to compete.
The winner of this year’s world tournament at Branzi Fair, Italy was Gianmario Ghirardi who along with her bovine companion, Mirka, produced 8.7 litres in two minutes.
However, there have been accusations of doping as this year’s top three competitors all produced over seven litres in two minutes.
This might seem normal to uninitiated but the previous world record was a lowly two litres.
As reported by i100 the 2013 champ, Maurizio Paschetta, said of the great leaps in production: ‘For a competition at this level I would have expected strong anti-doping checks on the cows and milkers to protect the animals and guarantee transparency of the top positions.’
However, the assistant president of the organising body responded: ‘We checked the cows for any tampering for an hour, then there are eight judges.’
The question this raises for us laymen is what performance enhancing drugs could possibly be used to help milk production.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgYE7cx4vwk
http://i.imgur.com/eb1PdTz.png
As anyone who ever attempted it will tell you, milking a cow is a true art and these people travel all over the world to compete.
The winner of this year’s world tournament at Branzi Fair, Italy was Gianmario Ghirardi who along with her bovine companion, Mirka, produced 8.7 litres in two minutes.
However, there have been accusations of doping as this year’s top three competitors all produced over seven litres in two minutes.
This might seem normal to uninitiated but the previous world record was a lowly two litres.
As reported by i100 the 2013 champ, Maurizio Paschetta, said of the great leaps in production: ‘For a competition at this level I would have expected strong anti-doping checks on the cows and milkers to protect the animals and guarantee transparency of the top positions.’
However, the assistant president of the organising body responded: ‘We checked the cows for any tampering for an hour, then there are eight judges.’
The question this raises for us laymen is what performance enhancing drugs could possibly be used to help milk production.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgYE7cx4vwk