It's swimming, I would've thought the drugs would help
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People TwitterLet’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.
Wait, that's a real thing??!!
Swimming is very, very technique based.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
Yeah.... I think probably the only real ped that would be useful would be something like blood doping in between races for better recovery?
And no erratic emotions with an underperforming penis.
Hey, some of us have that without using drugs
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.
Sounds like a blood bath.
I want to live in the world as you imagine it.
I dunno man, blood bowl is insanely brutal
Isn't that water polo?
No. No it isn't.
But, damn me if I don't like the way you think.
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?
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
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.
Those fucking ghouls would have The Running Man going on if we let them.
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.
Sounds like the Arcadion raid series in FFXIV. Just with significantly less corporate espionage and regenerating ancient lizard.
