Post-event update:
YAWN.
I sent back my Peace Prize.
The highest low point for me was the guy standing on one leg after a demo clean & press. Nice!
The idiot commentator called it
"a bit of a physique display."
But the whole thing did remind me that
I don't give a fuck how fast a complete stranger can swim
or how much anyone else can lift.
I'll fess up. This post is all about me whoring
for the enhanced games.
They said my Peace Prize is in the mail.
This fella had to drop out of the C&J
so he did some strict presses as a demonstration
and did a one-legger ending on a big one.
Is that a great photo or what!
I noticed that many of the athletes are
older than the usual peak age.
That would tie in nicely with the test and peptide products
the company behind these games sell.
Forever young and all that.
I wrote a book on this but the title said it all in three words.
"Live. Die. Putrefy."
Destined to be the shortest self-hate bestseller ever!
https://www.youtube.com/@enhanced_games1/videos
https://www.enhanced.com/games
I believe they'll be free to view live online. There'll be weightlifting and strongman competition in this. Competing athletes receive a salary, lodging, food, drugs, medical team monitoring, proper training facilities, etc,. and the prize money is large. $250,000 for first placings.
Sounds to me like the old Soviet and/or Eastern European teams of the past.
Except the athletes know what they're taking.
The company behind these games also sells pharmaceutical products used to enhance performance and "quality" of life, coincidentally.
"Records at What Cost? A Critique of the Enhanced Games"
The deadlift competition should be a good view.
That Peace Prize really has me shilling here
so don't tell anyone. Come on! Look at this thing.
Not the rat fuck asslicking dealmaker holding it . . . the trophy I'm getting!
It'll help pay for a real website with real font control.
It'll help pay for a real website with real font control.
The lotto-draw for my soon-to-be-arriving peachy Peace Prize is now open.
Tickets are 10 bucks a pop, three for 25 or books of 10 for $120. This may work out better monetarily than last summer when I went door to door in a girl guide outfit selling cookies I stole from a store. Geez, ya meet the strangest people doing that.
On a side note relating to strange people, and we all know at least one if not several of these fucking assholes. Man, the DSM Manual is huge now, ain't it. Anyhow, here . . .
Orthorexia:
I enjoyed this interview with Mitchell Hooper.
Not just because he's a Canadian!
"Mitchell Hooper on the Enhanced Games,
PEDS, Heart Health and
The 1000 Pound Deadlift."
Some stuff in there, maybe, find out . . .
about using less gear in these enhanced games than
at the Arnold Classic or the World's Strongest Man.
bUy my Peace Prize Lotto Tickets
and fix this fucking font failure with money.
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I am really looking forward to seeing this film when it's available online . . .
Enjoy Your Lifting!
I actually think the swimming and track element of the Enhanced Games should be interesting. I assume the weightlifting is going to end up well short of the current world records (gasp - how could that be!?!?)
ReplyDeleteZounds! Go figure on the last line, eh.
DeleteI'm looking forward to seeing Mitchell Hooper take his shot after ALL that training and effort he's put in. What a cool guy.
The sprint event or events should be a real treat to view. Fast!
Let's see how it all goes . . .
Officially enhanced. Where and when can I watch the Unofficially enhanced lifters?
ReplyDeleteDuh, at any competition not taking place in a high school gym or a barn?
I guess a lot of ranked Oly lifters and other high-level athletes are worried that they'll get the I.O.C. boot and not be able to help launder money, burn taxpayers in every city that hosts the Olympics and all that profit-pocketing stuff. Just a guess.
ReplyDeleteWelp, that kind of ended up being pretty underwhelming. I appreciate the fact they paid out pretty well, even without breaking world records, but good grief. Hard to try and watch the events between all the shilling for their product line. International sport isn't above reproach, so at least we get to let the market decide. Watch "clean" sport rife with corruption, or watch a long infomercial with a little mediocre lifting sprinkled in.
ReplyDeleteYou too, eh?
DeleteI wound up just scanning through the live stream it once it was done. Real tacky, an advert for the real reason they put it on . . . sales.
I got one of my adult daughters hyped to watch it . . . this morning I got an email titled
"Tucked or Untucked"
which was more entertaining than all the events put together.
I had to update the damned post. Blasted annoying athlete-types and their money-grubbing handlers!
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