against my will i saw a video of the ‘enhanced games’ (sports event with allowed doping in vegas, paid by tr*mp jr & peter th*el) and besides the athletes already hogging perverse world record money sums we gotta talk about how they all look like this??
bonus: a non-enhanced swimmer just showed up and beat some testosterone steroid maga buddies in the backstroke lmaoo he said watch and learn
A pro-doping Olympics alternative debuts in Las Vegas next month. The investors behind it are not sports fans. They are betting on a far lar
Transhumanism, stripped of its emancipatory veneer, reveals itself as biopower’s purest form—where doping is duty, augmentation is obedience, and the posthuman body performs not for itself but as an image consumed in the endless circulation of capital. What appears as overcoming the human is actually the spectacle’s triumph: the reduction of existence to optimized data, and the celebration of self-annihilation as freedom.
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So I fell down the rabbit hole of the enhanced games, along with the general zeitgeist around steroid use. It is certainly something I'll tell you that. The mere existence of the event is a scandal in and of itself and incredibly disappointing.
The enhanced games are backed by the usual group of billionaires that you don't trust. Peter Thiel is a top name here. Because of that, I refused to watch the Enhanced Games, but I did see the headlines that came from it. Turns out, yeah, nothing really big happened there. That was the problem because of how these games were advertised.
The idea was to push human limits and break all the world records. There were even former Olympic Athletes, some of whom already had records.
The athletes all lined up and failed to break most records. The only one broken was by a swimmer who was wearing a banned suit. He wasn't even juiced. The winners of the 100-meter dashes not only couldn't qualify for the Olympics, but nothing would have even been recorded because of the steroids. Some of whom were also not on any PEDs. I mean, you gotta have a control group, I guess
Any athlete who would have had a chance wouldn't have even joined because they have better careers in the actual Olympics, and this event would be a permanent black mark. Which is why the athletes that did join are either washed up or just looking for an out. The whole thing kinda put a lampshade on the fact that talent in a given sport is just as important as physical ability and strength.
You know what, tangent time. There are a few big reasons why PED's aren't allowed in sports. There is the unfair advantage, of course, or at least we thought there was, but there is also health. Bodybuilding is largely suffering from a steroid epidemic. It's not acknowledged on stage, but it is well known that the Mr. Universe lineup is largely showing signs of steroid abuse. They call it a roid gut for a reason. Arnold Schwartzenager has taken notice and decided to put a lampshade on it by having the contestants pose in ways that emphasize the roid symptoms. Without saying it, he showed that he is aware of what's happening. Granted, even he did steroids at one point, but he did it in moderation and is still alive because of that.
Something that these steroids have been doing to these bodybuilders is killing them. It is a legitimate concern in the community that someday a contestant is going to drop dead on stage because his heart gave out. It already happened backstage. A lot of these guys actually get winded while moving around, and others get diagnosed with sleep apnea and need a C-Pap machine to help them breathe at night. These are guys in their 20s and 30s; they often even look decades older than they actually are. I remember seeing a picture of one of these bodybuilders and thought he was in his forties, only to find out that he was younger than me. It's so bad that smaller circuits have popped up that do test for PEDs and specifically emphasize the classic physique. On the larger circuits, though. There is that fear of someone dying.
Everything mixed together is why the Enhanced Games were largely a dud. No one wants to blow up their career; the people involved couldn't even qualify for the Olympics, and people know about the health risks. There is another reason too. With steroids associated with cheating, the event kind of ruins the image of the talent that goes into pro sports. There is an admiration for pro athletes, and advertising that they are using drugs that are used to cheat, it just ruins any excitement that people had going into this. The games have been used to advertise supplements, because of course they were. A joke taken literally by billionaires who missed the entire point of it. What else is new?
Luckily, nothing official will ever come out of these games, except for medical bills that will inevitably come because of the steroids. The open use of PEDs has been denounced by the Olympics and associated regulatory bodies, and any attempt to present records that could have been broken would be immediately dismissed.
Reportedly clean athletes finished first in marquee events at the Enhanced Games — or Steroids Olympics — while just one world record was br
Just one “enhanced” athlete technically broke a world record during Sunday’s events, while reportedly “non-enhanced ” — or clean — athletes took home first place in a number of the marquee events.
Investors in the steroid-laced sporting event included Palantir’s Peter Thiel, 1789 Capital’s Donald Trump Jr., biotech entrepreneur Christian Angermayer and the founder of the games, Australian businessman Aron D’Souza.
“The Enhanced Games represent the future — real competition, real freedom and real records being smashed,” Trump Jr. said in a statement revealing his involvement.
The Enhanced Games were created in 2023 but the inaugural competition took place this Memorial Day weekend. Athletes who participated were offered the option to compete clean or to use substances that were banned by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) but approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), like testosterone and testosterone esters, human growth hormones, stimulants, metabolic modulators used with anabolic agents, erythropoietin and anabolic steroid agents, according to Enhanced Games. . . .
Greek swimmer Kristian Gkolomeev was the only athlete at the Enhanced Games to “break” a world record and receive the $1 million bonus. Gkolomeev, who wore a synthetic “supersuit” that is banned in the Olympics, swam the 50-meter free in 20.81 seconds. It was the night’s final event.
"If these games did anything, it’s remind us that the corporatised world of sports is a mess that should be fumigated from snout to tail. We all know that doping permeates our favourite events, that the exclusion of trans women from competitions is pure bigotry based on junk science, and capitalism has marginalized working class fans and athletes alike. We watch our beloved teams play even though we know they’re owned by sleazy billionaires who would sink their clubs’ legacies for an extra dollar. And despite it all, we still love the essence of competition, of community, and of watching people try their best. The Enhanced Games isn’t about the love of the game; it’s a smarmy exercise in profit over people."
- The Enhanced Games is a Stupid Scam of Toxic Masculinity and Optimisation Culture by Kayleigh Donaldson, Pajiba
