Enhanced Games

[Rita_Poon]

Enhanced Games: Doped swimmer claims 50m freestyle 'world record'

Organisers of a controversial event allowing banned performance-enhancing drugs say a swimmer has broken a long-standing world record.

www.bbc.co.uk

Doped up to the eyeballs to trim 0.02 off a record. A record that's stood since 2009.

 

[chrismpw]

This isn't sport. Only rs would be interested in these records.

 

[cronullasharks]

I hope it descends into roid rage fuelled chaos

 

[COYBL25]

Enhanced Games: Doped swimmer claims 50m freestyle 'world record'

Organisers of a controversial event allowing banned performance-enhancing drugs say a swimmer has broken a long-standing world record.

www.bbc.co.uk

Doped up to the eyeballs to trim 0.02 off a record. A record that's stood since 2009.

Think Lance Armstrong has been doing mountain bike comps in Russian controlled countries for a good for years now where there’s no testing.

 

[longers]

Having a drugged-up Olympics is a great idea, but they are doing it all wrong.

No one wants to see normal events where people trim a bit of time off world records, I want to see Javelin on ketamine, Archery on shrooms and so on.

 

[Rita_Poon]

Having a drugged-up Olympics is a great idea, but they are doing it all wrong.

No one wants to see normal events where people trim a bit of time off world records, I want to see Javelin on ketamine, Archery on shrooms and so on.

There is another aspect here, it could be possible to lock pistorius into his starting blocks and engineer the spring in his blades to launch him on the gun down the 100 meters. Is there a minimum number of footfalls required to say the race has actually been run?

 

[Yarrgh]

Enhanced Games: Doped swimmer claims 50m freestyle 'world record'

Organisers of a controversial event allowing banned performance-enhancing drugs say a swimmer has broken a long-standing world record.

www.bbc.co.uk

Doped up to the eyeballs to trim 0.02 off a record. A record that's stood since 2009.

Need more dope!

Maybe that 2009 was swam in a pool of liquified monkey testicles? No wonder it has stood the testes of time.

 

[verreauxi]

I think it would be much more fun to watch the drunk games. For each competitor, before every event you need to do X tequila shots based on your body weight. The cycling crashes, the vomit in the pool, the archery...

 

[Rita_Poon]

Need more dope!

Maybe that 2009 was swam in a pool of liquified monkey testicles? No wonder it has stood the testes of time.

I cba looking, but there were different swim suit rules back then. They've been outlawed since. Hang on a second.

MEN 50m FREE RECORD HOLDERS​

The current world record for the 50 freestyle long course is held by Cesar Cielo (BRA), who set the mark on December 18, 2009 at the CBDA Open – Brazilian Championships, in a time of 20.91. (For World, Olympics and World Championship records you can view them here.)

In short course meters the world record was also broken during the super-suit era, with Roland Schoeman (RSA) breaking it at his own national championship meet in August of 2009 in 20.30. Florent Manaudou (FRA) eclipsed this mark at the 2014 FINA World Short Course Championships in a 20.26.

BUT !

Ah, that's long course (50m pool), so the 19.90s by Jordan Crooks is a short course record. 19.90 for 50m. (December 2024)

 

[goldfinchmule]

I think it would be much more fun to watch the drunk games. For each competitor, before every event you need to do X tequila shots based on your body weight. The cycling crashes, the vomit in the pool, the archery...

Gymnastics would be so good.

 

[Rita_Poon]

I think it would be much more fun to watch the drunk games. For each competitor, before every event you need to do X tequila shots based on your body weight. The cycling crashes, the vomit in the pool, the archery...

 

[Yarrgh]

Having a drugged-up Olympics is a great idea, but they are doing it all wrong.

No one wants to see normal events where people trim a bit of time off world records, I want to see Javelin on ketamine, Archery on shrooms and so on.

I like the idea of some form of drug decathlon. It's the decathlon on 10 popular recreational drugs. The real fun comes about when you have to choose which drug is for which event individually.

Daley Thompson might pick mushrooms for the high jump, and acid for long jump and ketmine for the hurdles and think he is losing out to another decathlete* who chose speed, coke and ecstacy, only for him to then overtake him when the events and drug combinations swing into Daley's favor.

In fact, the more I think about it, I like it.





*you try naming another decathlon doer if you also think track and field is a snoozefest. Impossible. Just Like are there any other swimmers than Duncan Goodhew?

 

[Yarrgh]

I cba looking, but there were different swim suit rules back then. They've been outlawed since. Hang on a second.

MEN 50m FREE RECORD HOLDERS​

The current world record for the 50 freestyle long course is held by Cesar Cielo (BRA), who set the mark on December 18, 2009 at the CBDA Open – Brazilian Championships, in a time of 20.91. (For World, Olympics and World Championship records you can view them here.)

In short course meters the world record was also broken during the super-suit era, with Roland Schoeman (RSA) breaking it at his own national championship meet in August of 2009 in 20.30. Florent Manaudou (FRA) eclipsed this mark at the 2014 FINA World Short Course Championships in a 20.26.

BUT !

Ah, that's long course (50m pool), so the 19.90s by Jordan Crooks is a short course record. 19.90 for 50m. (December 2024)

Do they need lifeguards at international level swimmy tournaments? Because it seems a little redundant unless they get into a little heavy petting or divebombing in the shallow end inbetween matches/ halves/swimouts?

 

[Rita_Poon]

Dean Macey, but he made Gbamin look like iron man.

 

[Rita_Poon]

Do they need lifeguards at international level swimmy tournaments? Because it seems a little redundant unless they get into a little heavy petting or divebombing in the shallow end inbetween matches/ halves/swimouts?

yes, it's the law.