The athletes that openly take drugs to compete in these games will be banned from all other contests, so anyone who is already competitive isn’t going to take part.
A top-tier athlete without PEDs is gonna outperform lesser athletes who use them.
Damn transitional people, winning all the medals with their unfair advantages
Drugs can’t compensate for skill and technique.
…this isn’t a weird green text meme?
Holy fuck, the Enhanced Games are real? And looking into it, it’s backed by Donald Trump Jr and Peter Thiel.
Holy fuck actual dystopian future
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Those fucking ghouls would have The Running Man going on if we let them.
Iv always wanted to watch something like this, but yea knowing who back it, fuck it. Kinda curious how some of the other sports worked out in relation to the non doping counterparts.
Right? People dope in all sports, I’m fine with people being allowed to do it openly. I’m sure since it’s Thiel and Trump it’s awful somehow though
I kinda get most sports and comps not allowing doping, arguments for and against.
But yea, all the doping, bionics and shit, lets just see what we could do. For funsies.
The problem is that with the potential damage to the body and their career this is exactly what happens. Only the retired or mid performers are willing to actually take on the experiment. Top athletes already use some forms of doping but are very protective, since they have more to lose. Only those with nothing to lose will go all in on the enhancements.
I get the reasons for not doing it, but it seems clear that a lot of people are still doing it. Testing is always lagging the new methods of getting around it.
I’m curious if, with the world going crazy for LLM’s, we will see it used to make novel compositions of existing chemicals that constantly outpace the labs tasked with finding the doping.
It’s one of those things where it sounds kinda cool until you think about it for more than 5 seconds. If it takes off there will be people inventing all sorts of new horrifying ways to destroy their bodies and end their lives.
And if they have a category for prosthetics and surgical enhancements hooo boy there’s going to be some scary shit coming out of that
He was just doped up on exercise and high on life. Gonna need an asterisk next to that win.
And his name is literally Armstrong. Nominative determinism smh.
What in the Andrew Ryan is the fucken “enhanced games”?!
The newest “circus” that American Billionaires are using to distract the masses.
Nah, it is more to identify the drugs that work and to sell them in a drug store linked to the games.
And no erratic emotions with an underperforming penis.
Hey, some of us have that without using drugs
Sounds like the Arcadion raid series in FFXIV. Just with significantly less corporate espionage and regenerating ancient lizard.
Tottenham firing their next manager
how does he aim with such a tiny arm
Wouldn’t tiny arms be better? Less leverage force?
Carefully.
Skillfully
The only enhancement he used (but everyone else on the pool was using it too) was a swimming suit so efficient, that it got eventually banned by the IOC for being deemed an unfair advantage. Also, most of the “enhanced” competitors were just returning from retirement, there’s only so much you can compensate with steroids.
i would have thought there’s be like a blood oxygen thingy. or blood something else re- like… what’s it called. sorry, can’t remember the word. too much weed. 4:, uh, 4:57 if you want to be precise 4:20 was a bit ago. when you give platelets. they take the blood out and pull out the platelets, put the blood back in. i’d think there’d be something you could do with iv bullshit, something more intense with APHERESIS HAHA THATS THE WORD. i think that’s the word.
juice up right before the meet so you can voom. not even with anything that illegal, just with, idunno, making sure your electrolytes are the right balance.
Blood doping
Isn’t that what Gatorade is for?
Oh, and furthermore: jacking up a la Broly is actually a terrible idea for swimming specifically, because the extra bulging muscle is actually inefficient for hydrodynamic drag.
I read an article a little while ago about one of the swimmers who was training for these games and it talked about exactly this, how the changes to his body shape and composition were bigger drawbacks than the added strength from the enhancements.
If this event ends up going for a while and has enough interest I would expect people to figure out an optimal way to dope to find the balance.
The advancements will be to the suit. It will become more like speed submarining than swimming.
Steroids that make you bigger are the main public understanding of PEDs, but there are plenty of other types that increase stamina or speed recovery from individual races. 10% more blood flow would be huge for a long swimming event than more muscle mass.
But aren’t we talking about so little time that a little boost of energy could help you win?
Yes, generally, but at a certain point, the amount of energy gained from sheer muscle is unfortunately negated by the amount of drag from the muscle’s additional volume. That’s why most swimmers are relatively lean, with good core muscles.
I’m talking more of a speed type substance, not muscle gain.
Yeah, an energy boosting substance should be more apt for quick sprints. Again, as I mentioned above, most of the “enhanced” athletes are coming back from retirement - giving 120% from a degraded muscle can (and here, did) give less of a payback than giving 100% from a muscle in its prime.
Yeah, an energy boosting substance should be more apt for quick sprints.
The opposite I think, meth doesn’t magically make you stronger or faster (it just feels like it does) but it keeps you going for longer.
but it keeps you going for longer.
Specifically, mentally going. The majority of olympic level athletes are not ‘flagging’ due to not being able to keep their mental focus while pushing through pain/fatigue, it’s due to actual physiological reasons as your energy stores deplete and muscles suffer damage.
Its ok to just write meth you know
I’m not sure if they allow actually illegal substances in the Enhanced Games, though
Steroids are illegal in America, I’m sure meth is legal somewhere
Can confirm, gym / lifting lifestyle makes you in to a shape better suited as a boat anchor than a torpedo. Also probably about as buoyant.
That’s just them taking the wrong performance enhancing drugs. I would imagine that something that would lead to huge swelling of the hands and feet might be good for increasing how much water they can push against.
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Yeah… I think probably the only real ped that would be useful would be something like blood doping in between races for better recovery?
Easy money
I first read it as “enchanted” and for a fleeting moment I was in a world of magical swimmers until I read further and realised what it actually was. It was just like when I first came across “fantasy football” and thought it was about orcs and wizards playing American football.
We need a Blood Bowl of swimming.
Isn’t that water polo?
I was thinking of magic speed boosts and magical hindrance to your opponents in a swim race but if there’s a board game version of water polo you can clock people in the head and cast magic I’ll take that too lol
so something between olympic swimming and mario kart?
No. No it isn’t.
But, damn me if I don’t like the way you think.
I have friends who specifically sharpened their toenails for water polo. While I liked watching the swimmers in their tights, knowing they would happily drown each other in blood drawing contests beneath the water was a mild turn off.
Earlier this morning I heard someone say something that made me think that maybe I should have participated in competitive sports when I was younger.
Then I read your comment and realize that I was right to avoid that particular insanity.
You have to find the right group. There’s a fine line between competitive and ‘need to win’ drive. I can think of at least four large groups in my life that have broken apart specifically because there were some people in them that suddenly thought they could ‘dominate’ and everything shifted (in their view) to make that happen. Suddenly they don’t want to play with certain people, they get mad about partners who didn’t ‘play as well as they should have,’ etc. The fun disappeared and they dragged everyone else down with them.
I’d say the goal should be to have fun, and if you can’t goof off in the middle of a game/match/whatever, you’re too deep into the ‘need to win’ mindset.
You’re not going to find a lot of high school level sports teams that aren’t big on winning.
These days, I go to the gym where everyone is welcome and we all try to encourage each other.
Sounds like a blood bath.
I’ll settle for an erotic zoo.
Furry convention after hours
I want to live in the world as you imagine it.
I dunno man, blood bowl is insanely brutal
Swimming is very, very technique based.
Skill issue.
Also swimsuit based. Although he wasn’t using any PEDs he was (mostly) using a type of swimsuit which is not allowed in more traditional competitions.
Was going to say, steroids wouldn’t even help much here, other than speeding up healing from the injuries you get because you’re swimming juiced.
Wait, that’s a real thing??!!
Aren’t we living in the greatest timeline?
I want to watch PCP boxing
Let’s not forget the fact that ones who actually used drugs will be banned from any other competitions for many months or even years.
So, these other athletes are likely not in the “top tier”. It would be good to hear opinion from someone experienced to tell if it’s true.
It’s mostly true. The biggest name from what I’ve looked into is Ben Proud. He won silver at the 2024 Paris Olympics in the 50m freestyle. But you are largely correct it is majority no names.
Then you didn’t look very close, because fucking Hafthor Björnsson competed there
I meant in the swimming, sorry for not clarifying. Though you could absolutely consider only looking at that event not looking very close, but that is why I said from what I’ve seen and not as a fact of the entire competition.
Though on the other hand you did only offer a single additional name so it doesn’t really dispute it being majority no names in my mind. Even 1-2 big names per event would still be pretty much majority no names depending how you define it.
Right. And the drugs won’t get them to top tier levels either.
Yes, because all the top tier athletes are also on drugs, they are just restricted to drugs that don’t stay in the blood for very long, or simply aren’t banned yet (remember that Ment was only banned a few years ago by WADA, so until a few years ago every athlete was free to use one of the craziest steroids on the market)
