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The Enhanced Games appear to be a real thing this time. They've successfully taken a past-his-prime Olympic swimmer who never finished better than 5th in the Olympics, and drugged him up scientifically and taken him to break the 50m record. As a kind of proof of concept.
Which is fascinating to me in that, having been a huge baseball fan and seven years old in 1998, I've been massively cynical about drug use in sports. While there are obvious differences between sports and time periods with open and unconstrained drug use versus tested and hidden drug use, I pretty much assumed that all top level athletes were likely pushing the rules a little bit.
And what we're seeing here is Gkolomeev, who never medaled in the Olympics, drugging up openly and within a short period breaking the record. What this tells us is that swimming in the Olympics is pretty clean. Because otherwise, someone else would have already broken that record, there wouldn't be any margin left for the enhanced games to enhance. Reading about in the WSJ, it didn't even sound like a "crazy" cycle he was on, nothing that would get him good odds in the old T Nation bodybuilder Death Pool. So if just a decent open cycle gets you a world record, then we know there's not a ton of drug use in olympic swimming.
The Enhanced Games might in an empirical sense actually be a great thing for the Olympics, an effective proof that the Olympic athletes remain clean. If the Enhanced Games' break the records, then we know the olympic record is clean. If they don't, it's suspicious.
Though either way I hope the Enhanced Games bring back Tug of War.
Oh man I've been wanting this to exist for so long
Funnily enough, now that I'm a ~decade or so older than when I first started daydreaming about "how fun would no rules roid-maxxing sports + cybernetic enhancements be", I now actually find the idea horrific.
I know the athletes would consent, and be paid quite well, etc. But the idea of twisting your body into some insane sports golem just feels wrong.
Getting older is lame, no fun allowed!
The idea is of course that other people twist their bodies into some insane sports golems. If it also ends up killing traditional professional sports, all the better.
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