Jamie Pringle

Exercise physiologist by trade; occasional coach by practice. Wannabe ski racer, always.

[Mara Webster 🇬🇧🇺🇸 @Mara_Webster]

If anybody asks how I’m doing right now I’m going to send them this video as a representation of my current state of mind

[RS Archer @archer_rs]

It is estimated there are around 3,400 billionaires in the world. Imagine a scenario in which half of them decided to compete against Bill Gates in who could eradicate the most diseases, who could provide the most clean drinking water, who could most improve global education.

[Harry Eccles @Heccles94]

Mate, this is embarrassing.

You are literally not the shadow Home Secretary.

You’re not even an elected politician.

[Richard Hanania @RichardHanania]

Before Brexit, there were about 300K net migrants a year, mostly from the EU.

After Brexit, immigration shot up to 900K, and EU migration was negative.

It’s amazing how stupid Brexit was from every possible perspective.

Populism is a low IQ movement.

[Andrew Jones @AndyBeetroot]

Deadline of 19th June.

[Jamie Pringle @JamiePringle]

This. 100%

[Shawn M. Arent, PhD @ShawnArent]

The whole "most elite athletes are on drugs anyway" narrative is such a lazy take on human performance.

And it's mostly being spewed by people who have never worked with truly elite athletes or been an elite athlete.

The cognitive dissonance is real.

[Ross Tucker @Scienceofsport]

The #EnhancedGames package was a tepid, hollow affair. Missed its mark by more than its doped athletes missed the world records that had been so hyped. An illegal swimsuit was star of the show. I hope the anti-climax hurts the bottom line of this grift. Or they can sell swimsuits

[Tom Harris 🇬🇧 @MrTCHarris]

"I once spent £400,000 of other people's money on jewellery, cosmetics and a campervan and my wife didn't know anything about it."

[Steve Magness @stevemagness]

The enhanced games are a marketing gimmick.

It’s not for “science” or “hypocrisy."

It’s to market drugs to old guys in the bro world.

They don't care about the athletes. They aren't offering anything new or intriguing. It's a sales pitch for peptides, TRT, and sketchy supplements.

The athletes are to sell the product. And they've roped in people desperate enough to participate...mostly people who got busted and banned from actual sport...or need $$$.

The whole thing is based on a false premise.

First, they try to say, it's controlled/monitored so its safer. BS. The east German doping was controlled and monitored.

When the incentive is to go as fast as you can to win a million dollars, it doesn't matter what some doctor on your staff warns to these athletes, they will push the freaking limit.

And with that, any "science" you try to do is null and void. Because you have no clue what they're actually pushing...especially with a 1 million dollar prize.

Which gets me to point 2...

Second, anti doping works...not perfectly. But look at track, we've had world record holders and world champions who got busted and banned. Some of which are now in the enhanced games...

But more so what it does...it prevents people from going way overboard. With testing, you can't be the East Germans anymore... You'll get busted. So even if there is doping, it's scaled down, which reduces long-term consequences a bit.

Think of it like this, cyclists would turn their blood into sludge to get a boost...but they'd also risk dying by doing so. Anti doping prevents them from going that far.

It's not anywhere perfect, but it works much better than the naysayers think. And at worst it minimizes a no-holds bar drug escapade.

3. Transparency and Choice

When you make PEDS the baseline, you take away the choice. It's either risk longtime health or you have NO shot at the prize.

Yes, some will argue that it's either take them or not in normal sport, but in most sports that's not the case. You can still win a track and field world title clean. I know folks who I feel very strongly have. You can still be top 10 in the world, I've coached folks who have done so clean.

But when cheating is the default, there's no hope. You take away that choice.

4. The trickle down effect is real

Youth sports are insane. You normalize folks taking HGH, testosterone, etc. for the shot at millions...and crazy parent will do that with no supervision. They'll get the drugs for themselves from the enhanced games then dose up their children.

The more we normalize crazy, the more it pushes the incentives to make crazy normal.

I get that's where all of our society seems to be headed. But we have a choice. We get to say what matters, what do we value.

And the enhanced games is not it. The marketers don't have to win everything. We don't have to turn sport into a spectacle where you either have to take drugs that you potentially have to stay on for years or life just to compete.

I've been in sport at the highest levels. I've seen the dirty underbelly in person. But this is not the way.

It's not science. It's marketing. They've admitted the plan is to sell you peptides off this.

It's the latest way for some tech bros who think they own the world to market and sell false hopes and dreams to the guy who feels a bit inadequate because he peaked at scoring 4 touchdowns in a game at Polk High.

We're better than this nonsense.

[Bite Your Brum @BiteYourBrum]

Running to London because it’s £235 for a peak train ticket

[RS Archer @archer_rs]

This is the choice. A highly regarded and admired former Director of Public Prosecutions and head of the Crown Prosecution Service, fully vetted by the Security Service or a lying, corrupt, chancer with no political experience who sold Britain out and is probably a Russian asset

[єℓαιηє @elainesim28]

Please pray for my husband, he got stung by a bee in the forehead. He’s in the hospital now, his face all swollen and bruised.
He almost died.

Luckily I was close enough to hit the bee with a shovel.

[Covie @covie_93]

The people who promised to fix everything on day 1 are still out here blaming Joe Biden on day 467.

[Andrew Jones @AndyBeetroot]

PhD position available @UniofExeter with @MaurtenOfficial

https://t.co/Ag8naGTQ65

[Noa Gresiva @NoaGresiva]

Un hombre cegado por una bandera que le tapa los ojos. No ve que avanza hacia el vacío.

Banksy ha captado la esencia de la ultraderecha en el mundo. Es un maldito genio.

[Ben Cundall @kenbundall]

2/2: A few minutes pass and I turn away from the table and can’t believe my eyes, Ozzy Osbourne is walking towards us!

Except it wasn’t Ozzy Osbourne, it was the elderly gentleman’s wife 😭

Oops

[Ben Cundall @kenbundall]

🧵1/2: I’d had a few drinks in Florida and get seated next to an old guy at the poker table who’s got his phone in front of him with a screen saver of Ozzy Osbourne

“Big Sabbath fan?”

Stone silence

I assume he’s just some grumpy old rocker

[Have I Got News For You @haveigotnews]

Scientists say the universe is likely to end sooner than expected in 19.5 billion years, which is roughly the time it'll take Arsenal fans to stop moaning about last night's penalty decision

[Jonny Weldon @jonnyweldon]

9 year old me going through the Argos catalogue when my mum asks what I want for Christmas

[Ross Tucker @Scienceofsport]

Emergency pod is up. #Sawe runs 1:59:30 in London. We break down the eye-watering splits behind the performance, and offer insights on credibility & the future of a redefined sport, with hints that both Sawe, Kejelcha (1:59:41 debut) & others can improve: https://t.co/2RLOmWsGWO