Enhanced Olympics

PostRe: Enhanced Olympics by **Vermilion** » Mon Jul 03, 2023 9:17 am

Moggy wrote:This guy entered the javelin competition.

That's just Trowbridge town centre on a normal day.

PostRe: Enhanced Olympics by **Oblomov Boblomov** » Mon Jul 03, 2023 10:14 am

My instinct says this is an abominable idea that can only lead us further down the late-stage capitalist dystopian nightmare we are already sliding towards, that will inevitably result in exploitation and abuse of human beings for the benefit of the ultra rich.

But... I don't actually think the premise will get anywhere meaningful, so fortunately won't have the opportunity to properly develop into the horror show described above.

Then again, if there is some brand of science given the licence to operate 'legitimately' for this purpose, who knows where it could lead. Of course, as mentioned previously, your average person isn't going to get anywhere near world records no matter what they pump themselves full of, but just outside your elite 0.00001% group of athletes is the 0.00001% below them, who absolutely will stand to gain the additional tenths of a second (or whatever) they need to rise up to that WR-breaking category and probably beyond it.

PostRe: Enhanced Olympics by **Tomous** » Mon Jul 03, 2023 10:28 am

Very little chance the 100m record is broken in this anyway when you consider every top sprinter ever bar Usain Bolt was doping at some point in their career...

PostRe: Enhanced Olympics by **Rex Kramer** » Mon Jul 03, 2023 10:31 am

Why stop at legalising drugs in sport, let's go full cybernetics.

PostRe: Enhanced Olympics by **Lex-Man** » Mon Jul 03, 2023 11:28 am

Yeah baseball where the Pitcher has a cannon strapped to their arm, firing balls at 500mph.

Vermilion wrote:
Moggy wrote:This guy entered the javelin competition.

That's just Trowbridge town centre on a normal day.

PostRe: Enhanced Olympics by **Lex-Man** » Fri Feb 09, 2024 2:34 pm

*BUMP*

Apparently this thing is actually happening.

Ex-world champion James Magnussen says he will take banned drugs in an attempt to swim faster than a world record.

The Australian, 32, will come out of retirement to compete in the Enhanced Games, where doping is allowed.

Magnussen will try to swim faster than the 50-metre freestyle record, though it would not be official because there would be no drug-testing regime.

"I'll juice to the gills and I'll break it in six months," said Magnussen, who will be paid $1m (£792,000).

The men's 50m freestyle world record of 20.91 seconds was set by Brazilian Cesar Cielo in 2009, though he was wearing a performance-enhancing, non-textile swimsuit that was banned a few months later.

The Enhanced Games was founded by Australian businessman Aron D'Souza in 2023 and would not be subject to World Anti-Doping Agency rules.

It is planned to include athletics, swimming, weightlifting, gymnastics and combat sports, though no date or venue for the event has yet been set.

However, the proposal has attracted criticism. Last year the UK Anti-Doping Agency said it was "extremely concerned by the concept of an Enhanced Games".

"The premise of sports competitions that allow performance-enhancing drugs is unsafe, dangerous to athletes' health and wellbeing, and flies in the face of fair play," it said.

D'Souza told the Australian Associated Press said: "An Australian swimmer, the most important sport in the Australian psyche. I am just so proud that it's another fellow Aussie.

"I have no doubt now that James has done this publicly there will be dozens, hundreds of athletes [ready to join]. My phone is blowing up."

Magnussen, who won 100m freestyle world titles in 2011 and 2013 and Olympic silver at London 2012, has a personal best of 21.52 in the 50m that he achieved 11 years ago.

Despite being free to take whatever performance-enhancing drugs he likes, Magnussen says he does not want to take any risks with his health.

"I thought it was an interesting concept from the first time I heard it," Magnussen, who retired in 2019, told Sydney's SEN radio.

"We're pretty aware as Olympians, particularly in Australia, that performance enhancements are going on in other countries, but it's not a level playing field internationally.

"I want to go to America, I want to get the right advice and take the right supplements.

"I'd like to document it through video form. Show how it can be done safely, properly, and create an athlete we haven't seen before."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/swimming/68248821

PostRe: Enhanced Olympics by **Rex Kramer** » Fri Feb 09, 2024 2:38 pm

"I'll juice to gills" doesn't exactly scream wanting to take of their health.

PostRe: Enhanced Olympics by **Curls** » Fri Feb 09, 2024 2:49 pm

Makes himself look really poor IMHO.

PostRe: Enhanced Olympics by **Moggy** » Fri Feb 09, 2024 2:50 pm

I saw a comment somewhere from somebody who said there should be a performance de-enhanced Olympics.

Instead of drugs to improve times, they take drugs that will have a detrimental effect. Get the 100m runners to smoke a gram of weed before the race. Get the swimmers on ketamine. Imagine the javelin throwers after mushrooms or the pole volters on coke.

The times would be awful, but it'd be entertaining as strawberry float.

PostRe: Enhanced Olympics by **Vermilion** » Fri Feb 09, 2024 2:53 pm

Moggy wrote:I saw a comment somewhere from somebody who said there should be a performance de-enhanced Olympics.

Instead of drugs to improve times, they take drugs that will have a detrimental effect. Get the 100m runners to smoke a gram of weed before the race. Get the swimmers on ketamine. Imagine the javelin throwers after mushrooms or the pole volters on coke.

The times would be awful, but it'd be entertaining as strawberry float.

I'd happily sit down and watch that. :lol:

PostRe: Enhanced Olympics by **Peter Crisp** » Fri Feb 09, 2024 4:01 pm

I suppose I'd be interested in something like a marathon like this to see how far the human body can go.
It would most likely completely wreck the body of the person doing it though.

PostRe: Enhanced Olympics by **Tomous** » Fri Feb 09, 2024 4:09 pm

World Record holders after athletes drugged up on everything fail to beat their world records:

PostRe: Enhanced Olympics by **Tomous** » Fri Feb 09, 2024 4:13 pm

Moggy wrote:I saw a comment somewhere from somebody who said there should be a performance de-enhanced Olympics.

Instead of drugs to improve times, they take drugs that will have a detrimental effect. Get the 100m runners to smoke a gram of weed before the race. Get the swimmers on ketamine. Imagine the javelin throwers after mushrooms or the pole volters on coke.

The times would be awful, but it'd be entertaining as strawberry float.

I like that for maximum chaos, you give the psychedelics to the people throwing a huge spear :lol:

PostRe: Enhanced Olympics by **Moggy** » Fri Feb 09, 2024 4:20 pm

Tomous wrote:
Moggy wrote:I saw a comment somewhere from somebody who said there should be a performance de-enhanced Olympics.

Instead of drugs to improve times, they take drugs that will have a detrimental effect. Get the 100m runners to smoke a gram of weed before the race. Get the swimmers on ketamine. Imagine the javelin throwers after mushrooms or the pole volters on coke.

The times would be awful, but it'd be entertaining as strawberry float.

I like that for maximum chaos, you give the psychedelics to the people throwing a huge spear

That's the fun, proper crowd participation :shifty:

PostRe: Enhanced Olympics by **Rocsteady** » Fri Feb 09, 2024 4:29 pm

Tomous wrote:World Record holders after athletes drugged up on everything fail to beat their world records:

Hah, exactly.

Even to your point further up the page - he's never been caught but its almost a guarantee that Usain Bolt used PEDs.

Modern PEDs are absolutely incredible; from EPO to every anabolic under the sun, it is vanishingly unlikely that someone even as naturally gifted as Bolt would be able to beat known juicers.

The Olympics already are the drugged games. Just for now you need to time your cycle and you can't go absolutely off the wall with dosage ala prime Holyfield.

PostRe: Enhanced Olympics by **aayl1** » Fri Feb 09, 2024 9:32 pm

Rex Kramer wrote:"I'll juice to gills" doesn't exactly scream wanting to take of their health.

Also gills is already enough of an advantage in swimming he doesn't need the juice.

PostRe: Enhanced Olympics by **Moggy** » Fri Feb 09, 2024 9:42 pm

aayl1 wrote:
Rex Kramer wrote:"I'll juice to gills" doesn't exactly scream wanting to take of their health.

Also gills is already enough of an advantage in swimming he doesn't need the juice.

Talking of the Juice, this is the Olympic event we all want to see.

Enhanced Olympics

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