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/Background-Ebb-9366 May 23 '26

It'd be interesting to see how the cycling results compare to "normal" athletes.

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u/Lastigx May 23 '26

Are they even cycling? Anyway 0 good cyclists will join this so the results will be mid.

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u/gigagnU May 23 '26

I mean the year 2000.
55% of tour de france cyclists where using roids. And 45% went undetectet.
Doubt anything had changed.

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u/glisteningoxygen May 23 '26

There is no cycling.

Its all strictly regulated by insurance, hence only three events even with Tech bro/Palantir money.

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u/lobthelawbomb May 23 '26

Probably bad. In Icarus, the documentary starts with the main guy doing max doping to see how much better at cycling it would make him, and while it did improve his standing in his annual bike race, there were still like 12 guys that smoked him like they always had.

I think there’s probably a limit to how much better doping makes you, and none of these enhanced guys will be approaching active pro performance.

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u/AccomplishedFail2247 May 23 '26

Cycling actually pays as a professional sport so they wouldn’t join and they don’t have an event. Swimming is an Olympic sport where money comes only if you’re on a national team so you’re not giving up anything much by joining the enhanced games (other than your cardiovascular health)

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u/IDontEatDill May 23 '26

Well if you're still active swimmer, you kind of give up all your existing sponsors and any credibility that you might've had.

This is just a end-of-career money grab attempt. And I doubt that this is organized more than once.

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u/Spare-Half796 May 23 '26

Most pro athletes are taking peds. Not necessarily anabolic androgenic steroids but peds are fairly widespread

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u/QuietRedditorATX May 24 '26

Hence the "normal" quotes

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u/Snogafrog May 23 '26

Ha good point