The Enhanced games are on right now where you are perfectly allowed to take as many performance enhancing drugs as you want.
And despite this, only a few world records were broken. People are expressing disappointment asking how come all these guys fully doped up on the best gear still can't beat the Olympics in most places?
Because the average person has no idea on what it takes to become a World #1
Most Olympic events are not won by pure brute strength alone. The are grueling hours of training to build the aerobic/anaerobic fitness. The honing of the biomechanics required to perform that one action in as perfect a way as possible to achieve the required level of performance. The coaching and support structure to enable the above is costly, very costly. If you're not in an Olympic program funded by the state, where is your money coming from?
What drugs do is mostly help you to train harder for longer - it does not substitute for training and coaching.
Therein lies the difference. Athletes in the Olympic program are driven to put in those grueling hours of training because of the "payday" at the end - recognition. Recognition that may even, in the correct sport and commercial market, result in significant monetary gain. What's in it for these "enhanced" athletes outside of bragging rights within a small circle of like minded? What's going to drive them to train 6 hours a day, 6 days a week? More importantly, who is going to be willing to put in that kind of money to train to that level just for a chance at a $1m prize for breaking a "world" record?
Or then again, maybe if juiced athletes can't beat clean athletes, then what they've been saying all these while is right - everyone is doped up, they just figured out how not to be caught
