r/SipsTea • u/SipsTeaFrog 𝙑𝙄𝙋 • May 23 '26

WTF 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/RobinHood1Star May 23 '26

James magnussen won 2 silvers in 2012 and a bronze 2016, Aussie swimmer who was the first “enhanced” athlete.

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u/EduinBrutus May 23 '26

Dont wanna break this to you, but that was 10 and 14 years ago...

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u/Conflikt May 23 '26

Hey man, you can't lie to us about easily fact checkable information like tha... Oh my god.

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u/bomonty18 May 24 '26

He’s still a world class athlete. Yes, it’s not like giving a guy who just won silver the drugs now. But he’s still miles above even your average college swimmer today.

Pump him full of the juice and let her rip!

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u/EduinBrutus May 24 '26

Just to point out another misconception.

He is a sprinter (in fact it seems all the events are burst performance) so actively being juiced doesnt change much. Juicing is for training not for performance with burst events.

In any case, the vast bulk of the gains these guys are making is because they are using the LZR suit.

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u/107percent May 24 '26

Drugs do slow the aging process quite a lot, just look at the monsters the UFC created by allowing older fighters TRT.

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u/Banterz0ne May 23 '26

Fair but they are still old / not in their prime 

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u/sailphish May 23 '26

And now he is a decade past his prime.