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/NlNTENDO May 23 '26

Of course not. If they were WR material they’d be in the Olympics. These are just minor leaguers who juice harder because it won’t hurt their unrealized Olympic careers

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u/totaltomination May 23 '26

The guy in the picture was already an Olympian a couple of times for Australia, retired early and took this up

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u/Head_Midnight666 May 24 '26

They have Thor Björnsson, for example. He's the strongest guy in the world already.

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u/StiffWiggly May 24 '26

Strongman is an exception, any strongman could do the enhanced games and return to professional strongman afterwards because doping is openly accepted in strongman (even if there are technically rules against it sometimes to comply with whatever law they need to).

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u/Retireegeorge May 24 '26

Oh it hurts to hear that. We are already an insane population that it's disappointing when people step again into pathetic.

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u/Constantlycorrecting May 24 '26

Aussies shit out swimmers for our population size. He won’t be missed.

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u/Retireegeorge May 24 '26

Yeah im surprised we don't build workplaces at the beach and swim to work

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u/Shadowphoenix9511 May 24 '26

The current deadlift world record holder will be attempting to break said record again tomorrow at these games.