From the bleachers it may look like pure glory. But from the athlete's perspective, qualifying for the Olympic Games resembles nothing so much as a prison drug raid. "It's tremendously embarrassing," says U.S. national-team oarsman Ty Bennion. "You've just given the performance of your life. Your family and friends think you're going off to sign some sort of official documents. But you're headed off to the bathroom so that two International Sampling Officers can watch you pee into a cup."
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