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Ok, but give them 1 year and a salary to train, make every event into Cool Runnings.
Also only allow 26 year olds so we have a level playing field.
If one of your players breaks the lucky egg, that’s it you’re out.
I'd love this. There'd be a lot of great stories about the training and everything leading up to the event.
The montage of each athlete from start to game day would be so much more impressive. I don't sports betting, but I'd absolutely start the day the athletes are selected.
As funny as Peter Thiel's Steroid Games would be, seeing regular ass people become somewhat good at a thing is more interesting than seeing a 1-in-100million freak of nature do something even further beyond my own experience than what pro athletes already do.
Steroid games sounds disgusting. I'm not surprised to learn that Thiel is one of those guys that is into steroid freaks. Yuck. It is horrible for the people taking them, and gives them lifelong problems, like those poor woman the Stasi in East Germany were tasked with doping without their knowledge to win in olympic competitions, swim team I think idk if others too, during the cold war.
Just awful, they might still be around, normally I support the right to use drugs, but anabolic steroids are just awful and have few if any legitimate uses.
I'd be a bit more interesting if they only got a month or two to train - if it's a year then they ought to get pretty good (too good)
If you don’t give them enough time to train then this wouldn’t be as interesting as you think it’d just be a lot of injuries
A year gives them a chance to actually condition themselves. Anybody can achieve that transformation or something close with dedication. A month though, and even the best training in the world isn't going to make up the difference between a randomly selected athletic and nonathletic person.
But the point is that it is your average joe that hasn't trained to see how the average person would fare.
The average Joe can go try random sports today. You can even watch people try new things for the first time.
The point is to inspire people by showing what dedication and support can do to elevate Average Joe.