{"id":1437,"date":"2026-08-03T07:11:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T03:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/?p=1437"},"modified":"2026-08-03T03:10:25","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T03:10:25","slug":"roids-were-all-the-rage-at-the-enhanced-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/?p=1437","title":{"rendered":"Roids were all the rage at the Enhanced Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-caption=\"Cody Miller just after winning $250,000 at the Enhanced Games.\" data-portal-copyright=\"\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.theverge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/05\/268551_Enhanced_Games_ALoius_0074.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;crop=0,0,100,100\" \/><figcaption>\n\tCody Miller just after winning $250,000 at the Enhanced Games.\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap has-text-align-none wp-block-paragraph\">In Las Vegas, the blazing sun beats down on a makeshift Olympic-length pool. Cody Miller stands on the starting block of lane one. His arms are raised in victory. MC Hammer&#8217;s &#8220;U Can&#8217;t Touch This&#8221; thumps over the loudspeakers as he rips off his swimming cap, throwing it to the ground. Miller lets out a guttural scream, muscles and veins bulging. He&#8217;s just won the men&#8217;s 50m breaststroke at the inaugural Enhanced Games. Miller&#8217;s wallet is $250,000 fatter than it was 26.55 seconds ago &#8211; a new personal best time for the two-time Olympic medalist.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none wp-block-paragraph\">Is Miller&#8217;s win thanks to his polyurethane swimsuit, which was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/olympics-why-some-types-of-swimsuits-are-banned\/\">banned after the 2008 Olympics<\/a> as a f \u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/features\/937620\/enhanced-games-performance-enhancing-drugs-science-health-sports\">Read the full story at The Verge.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Source: <a href='https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/features\/937620\/enhanced-games-performance-enhancing-drugs-science-health-sports' target='_blank'>Read the original article on www.theverge.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cody Miller just after winning $250,000 at the Enhanced Games. In Las Vegas, the blazing sun beats down on a makeshift Olympic-length pool. Cody Miller stands on the starting block of lane one. His arms are raised in victory. MC Hammer&#8217;s &#8220;U Can&#8217;t Touch This&#8221; thumps over the loudspeakers as he rips off his swimming [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1438,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1437\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}