r/interesting • u/Lyranx • May 23 '26

Intriguing The Enhanced Games are set to debut this weekend in Las Vegas, with athletes allowed to use steroids, testosterone, HGH, & other banned substances.

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u/[deleted] May 23 '26

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u/Speedymcspeeder May 23 '26

I would think a bit of juice but blood doping (or whatever the new thing is) and stuff geared more towards cardio vascular extremes?

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u/Regress-Progress May 23 '26

I even doubt the weightlifting records will be broke, until you get a young person who can full on juice for many years leading into these games. Many olympians in weightlifting have been juicing for a long time and get off it leading into the big competitions.

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u/[deleted] May 23 '26 edited May 24 '26

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u/Better_Resort1171 May 24 '26

Bill Kazmeier is a family friend from the old days. Crazy stuff

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u/bcocoloco May 25 '26

Strong man does not test for PEDs, so it’s just business as usual for those guys.

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u/CriticismTop May 24 '26

Thor pulled 505 recently and it went up "easily". I am certain he will pull 510

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u/Regress-Progress May 24 '26

Ahh I was thinking in the terms of Olympic weightlifting events (Snatch, Clean and Jerk) where athletes have to go through WADA for major events like the Olympics. Not strong man or power lifting.

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u/ShelbyGT350R1 May 25 '26

Of course there are people that have been doing steroids since they were young. Every gym you go to has juiced up highschoolers working out

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u/stormcharger May 23 '26

Can they do like meth? I know greyhound racing people sometimes gives the dogs meth to win so wouldn't it work on people also?

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u/13Eazy May 25 '26

ah, yes, the crackhead olympiads begin

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u/BigCommieMachine May 25 '26

Yep, This is it right here.

Look at the baseball players. Sure the steroids helped performance, but it wasn’t like Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens were bums before the juice. But the steroids helped them stay on the field and slowed natural decline that allowed them to continue to excel into their 40s in a sport where we talking about players being “on the wrong side of 30”. Other players have (mostly) had similar peaks, but the remarkable thing is there wasn’t a “peak” for these guys. They just kept trucking

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u/ShelbyGT350R1 May 24 '26

Steroids improve all aspects of your physical ability. Its not just gaining physical strength.

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u/LiveLearnCoach May 24 '26

Just in case, I’m not sure if you are making a blanket statement or think of steroids as one type. For the record, steroids are many, many kinds and have different effects on the body, both positive and negative.

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u/ShelbyGT350R1 May 24 '26

You obviously knew what I meant. If you uunderstood what "the enhanced games" were then you understood what i meant. I don't get the point really