leckmich Posted May 24 Posted May 24 (edited) Otherwise known as 'Doping Olympics', professional athletes take FDA-approved drugs to compete in this games. It started last weekend in LA. They get USD 1 million if they break a world record. Some olympics medallists are taking part in it. Cheating or not? Here is a BBC programme about it https://www.bbc.com/audio/play/w3ct8mf8 Edited May 24 by leckmich Quote
leckmich Posted May 26 Author Posted May 26 lol, u can see it that way. but there was a clean athlete who beat a doped athlete though. actually not a loser olympics, because they stand to gain a lot mmonetarily. much more than an olympinas would probably earm in a life time apparently. ' "Yet of the 22 personal best performances produced across 79 individual efforts on the day, three were produced by swimmers that were not on the juice: Egyptian Sohib Khaled and American Hunter Armstrong. Hunter Armstrong competed without being "enhanced", but he might want to lose the T-shirt before his next comp. (Getty Images: Enhanced/Bryan Steffy) With that, they claimed $175,000 and $522,000 respectively in prize money and, in theory at least, can continue their competitive careers with reputations tarnished only by association. The other two non-enhanced athletes competing on the day — Tristan Evelyn and Fred Kerley — ran off with the two blue riband prizes in the 100m sprint — albeit miles off the world record marks they were chasing. "They gotta do better than that," Kerley said of his doped-up competitors after beating them to the $350,000 prize that came with winning his event." The sporting spectacle of the Enhanced Games was underwhelming but the financial rewards were not - ABC News Quote
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