this post was submitted on 27 May 2026
647 points (99.5% liked)
People Twitter
10010 readers
896 users here now
People tweeting stuff. We allow tweets from anyone.
RULES:
- Mark NSFW content.
- No doxxing people.
- Must be a pic of the tweet or similar. No direct links to the tweet.
- No bullying or international politcs
- Be excellent to each other.
- Provide an archived link to the tweet (or similar) being shown if it's a major figure or a politician. Archive.is the best way.
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
The only enhancement he used (but everyone else on the pool was using it too) was a swimming suit so efficient, that it got eventually banned by the IOC for being deemed an unfair advantage. Also, most of the "enhanced" competitors were just returning from retirement, there's only so much you can compensate with steroids.
Oh, and furthermore: jacking up a la Broly is actually a terrible idea for swimming specifically, because the extra bulging muscle is actually inefficient for hydrodynamic drag.
Can confirm, gym / lifting lifestyle makes you in to a shape better suited as a boat anchor than a torpedo. Also probably about as buoyant.
I read an article a little while ago about one of the swimmers who was training for these games and it talked about exactly this, how the changes to his body shape and composition were bigger drawbacks than the added strength from the enhancements.
If this event ends up going for a while and has enough interest I would expect people to figure out an optimal way to dope to find the balance.
Steroids that make you bigger are the main public understanding of PEDs, but there are plenty of other types that increase stamina or speed recovery from individual races. 10% more blood flow would be huge for a long swimming event than more muscle mass.
The advancements will be to the suit. It will become more like speed submarining than swimming.
But aren't we talking about so little time that a little boost of energy could help you win?
Yes, generally, but at a certain point, the amount of energy gained from sheer muscle is unfortunately negated by the amount of drag from the muscle's additional volume. That's why most swimmers are relatively lean, with good core muscles.
I'm talking more of a speed type substance, not muscle gain.
Its ok to just write meth you know
I'm not sure if they allow actually illegal substances in the Enhanced Games, though
Steroids are illegal in America, I'm sure meth is legal somewhere
America.
https://www.drugs.com/mtm/desoxyn.html
I was assuming otc. I have a meth prescription
You have a prescription for desoxyn? That's incredibly rare
Nah, I call it meth but it's just Vyvanse and Adderall. An amphetamine but not methamphetamine
So, not meth at all?
Nope not meth at all
Yeah, an energy boosting substance should be more apt for quick sprints. Again, as I mentioned above, most of the "enhanced" athletes are coming back from retirement - giving 120% from a degraded muscle can (and here, did) give less of a payback than giving 100% from a muscle in its prime.
The opposite I think, meth doesn't magically make you stronger or faster (it just feels like it does) but it keeps you going for longer.
Specifically, mentally going. The majority of olympic level athletes are not 'flagging' due to not being able to keep their mental focus while pushing through pain/fatigue, it's due to actual physiological reasons as your energy stores deplete and muscles suffer damage.
That's just them taking the wrong performance enhancing drugs. I would imagine that something that would lead to huge swelling of the hands and feet might be good for increasing how much water they can push against.
HGH does that.
Yeah.... I think probably the only real ped that would be useful would be something like blood doping in between races for better recovery?
i would have thought there's be like a blood oxygen thingy. or blood something else re- like... what's it called. sorry, can't remember the word. too much weed. 4:, uh, 4:57 if you want to be precise 4:20 was a bit ago. when you give platelets. they take the blood out and pull out the platelets, put the blood back in. i'd think there'd be something you could do with iv bullshit, something more intense with APHERESIS HAHA THATS THE WORD. i think that's the word.
juice up right before the meet so you can voom. not even with anything that illegal, just with, idunno, making sure your electrolytes are the right balance.
Blood doping
Isn't that what Gatorade is for?
psh gatorade that can't be legal