Magnussen, 32, was additionally requested by hosts on the Howdy Sport Podcast concerning the idea and whether or not the person dubbed the “Missile” would take into account taking medication to see how briskly he may swim.
“I’m a few years out of retirement now. I’ve stored myself in cheap form in retirement,” Magnussen instructed the podcast.
“They’ve mentioned they’ve a billion-dollar particular person backing them. In the event that they put up one million {dollars} for the 50 freestyle world report, I’ll come on board as their first athlete. I’ll juice to the gills and I’ll break it in six months.
“You may’t train expertise to a swimmer after which juice them up. You’ve obtained to get a pre-existing quick swimmer. You’re not going to get swimmers ok.
A screenshot from the web site of the Enhanced Video games, which desires to create Olympic-like competitors for drug-using athletes.
“I don’t know heaps about it [doping] to be trustworthy. I believe you simply go the pure testosterone. Pump your ranges as much as a superhuman stage after which flip right into a freak present.”
Magnussen is a former world report holder within the 100m freestyle. He gained world titles within the occasion in 2011 and 2013. He got here second in his favoured occasion on the London Olympics by one-hundredth of a second.
Magnussen is assured that he would be capable of decrease his private greatest time within the 50m freestyle (21.52 seconds) to interrupt Cesar Cielo’s drug-free mark (20.91s) that has stood since 2009.
Cielo’s time was clocked within the supersuit period, which Magnussen mentioned he want to even have at his disposal.
Enhanced president Aron D’Souza.
“I’m going to wish a kind of supersuits to drift me,” Magnussen mentioned on the Howdy Sport Podcast. “If I get unbelievably jacked, I’m going to sink. Juice and a swimsuit, completely happy days.”
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A spokesman for the Australian Olympic Committee instructed this masthead in August: “The Olympic motion is devoted to wash sport and athletic excellence.”
Enhanced Video games organisers haven’t introduced a fee construction for athletes however say will probably be profitable, ought to the idea get off the bottom.
“All athletes competing within the Enhanced Video games shall be paid,” mentioned an announcement on its web site. “Eligible athletes will obtain a base wage and compete for prize winnings, which shall be bigger than some other comparable occasion in historical past. The precise prize pool and compensation construction shall be introduced in mid-2024.
D’Souza is assured there are “a whole bunch” of athletes able to put their arms as much as compete.
“These are individuals who have by no means competed publicly as a result of they’re enhanced, and so they’re breaking world information of their basement and sending us movies of it,” D’Souza mentioned final yr.
“Our purpose is to create essentially the most participatory sports activities occasion in historical past.”
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