The Enhanced Games

[DodgyGeezer]

there is a move by an Aussie to hold an olympics style games where doping is allowed - I guess the idea is to see just how far humans can push themselves with (presumably) no rules.

The question is though, as sports fans, or even participants, are we ready to watch/enjoy this or is it something that wouldn't interest you in the slightest?

I have to admit that it would be interesting (morbid curiosity?) to see just how fast a 100m or 200m could actually be run in by an 'enhanced' athlete. What about swimming where someone could be juiced AND have the advantage of a super-slippy swimsuit. Would there be differences in endurance events? How different could things be in throwing events?



https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/swimming/68248821

[DodgyGeezer]

wong said:

These enhanced atheletes would statistically have much shorter life spans.

the sad thing is that for many athletes the chance of an Olympic gold now vs the possibility of an early death at some point, gold gets the vote (I seem to recall that there was a survey about this many years ago)