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[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.

[Athletics Integrity Unit @aiu_athletics]

Stay informed, learn what is new from January next year on the WADA Prohibited List.

You can find the full copy of the 2026 WADA Prohibited List, and the Summary of Major Modifications and Explanatory Notes here: https://t.co/VMpm0DR1qR

[Freedom from Torture🧡 @FreefromTorture]

The government is trying to get us to take this video down.

They'd hate it for you to RT

[A-A-ron @LinesAaron]

@dvh_ellis Whenever I (27yo) make mashed potato I bring up bodger and badger to my partner (26yo), she has never heard of them. When I describe it she has asked if it was a dream.

[VeryBritishProblems @SoVeryBritish]

Wigan v Sheffield United tomorrow

[A-A-ron @LinesAaron]

@RequestABet Quez Watkins (PHI) 100+ receiving yards & to score a TD

[Ragged Trousered Philanderer @RaggedTP]

This is not the queue, stretching miles, to see Queen Elizabeth's coffin lying in state.
This is the queue for a charity food bank in the capital city of the world's fifth richest country.

[Savan Qadir @savanQadir]

If you leave a dog poo, you will be fined £80 pounds, but if you do this to our beaches, you will get a tax cut.

[A-A-ron @LinesAaron]

After listening to BwF Craining Camp: Day 5. For next years Ospreys awards the bird pun for takesman of the year should be the Corn Crake-sman of the year. @Marissa_Morris @Bo_Wulf @ZBerm

[BH Apollo the Cat owner @GreenBagOG]

More people have died in the UK from covid then will vote for the next PM.

[Molly Ward, LCSW @therapywmolly]

We really need to stop the idea that we have to be in crisis to go to therapy

[Sylvain Perdigon @sylvain_anthro]

In 2014, this French weather presenter announced the forecast for August 18, 2050 as part of a campaign to alert to the reality of climate change. Now her forecast that day is the actual forecast for the coming 4 or 5 days, in mid-June 2022.

[Nick Pettigrew @Nick_Pettigrew]

The fact that in the last decade Martin Lewis has had to go from 'The guy who tells you who's doing two-for-one deals or how to get a good mortgage rate' to 'Here's what you can do to get emergency help to stop starving/freezing to death' speaks for itself.

[Darryl Morris @darrylmorris]

The BBC are setting up shortwave radio frequencies for the people of Ukraine to keep informed with the news as their TV towers are bombed and internet services attacked.

You don’t get that with a Netflix subscription.

[jason concepcion @netw3rk]

generally speaking we severely underrate how good people are at hiding their depression and other mental health issues

[robyn @robyn_emz]

looking forward to seeing the responses from drivers both on social media and real life who will absolutely not follow the new highway code changes towards cyclists and ultimately the road will never be safer until we fix motorists' attitudes and get proper infrastructure

[Chelsea Young @Chelseayoung568]

It's mad the sheer number of people who need reminding of this.

[A-A-ron @LinesAaron]

The Five Kingdoms of Football. Perhaps the most enjoyable piece of sports data writing I have read. An ingenious twist on data visualisation that really helps you work through how the data has been organised.

via @TheAthletic https://t.co/1FCLJZ0GnM