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Michael Phelps is breaking some serious records in Rio with 21st Olympic gold added to the astonishing collection, but it isn’t why his name pops in every second twitter update. What got the world upset are the mysterious red dots covering his body. They’re not crop circles, tattoos or Zika virus marks but a hint that US Olympic team personnel tried to relax their golden boy before the gold rush. What is interesting is that cupping, both big Michael’s recovery secret and probably the most googled term in the last few days is not new nor a new trend in any sport including swimming. What has made it take over the headlines is Phelps using it during the medal harvest. In a black and white world we live in we could have either blamed Michael for some kind of new mysterious alien meta doping or proclaim the method as pseudoscientific and paradoxically laugh at the US team preparation methods while watching them conquer the podium with 27 medals.
So what is this cupping exactly? It’s a form of alternative medicine in which a practitioner tries to restore the physiological balance in the body by using local suction leaving the cool red dots as a side effect. Wikipedia, the world’s most trusted medical fact gold mine also says it is a pseudoscience.
Is it really and is there any rational reason to use it? Who will have the last laugh?
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