Cody Miller Explains the Enhanced Games—With out the Spin

I’ve been a Cody Miller fan for a very long time, which comes from a deep respect for his dedication to the game as a professional, and since I’m intimately conscious of how a lot time, vitality, and mastery it takes to provide his YouTube channel, CodyMillerAdventures. I do know, for years, Cody has been working two full-time jobs.

Signing onto to the Enhanced Games was a curveball, however not wholly sudden after I thought it by way of, which is partly why I requested him to return on the podcast.

For the file: SwimSwam has no business or monetary affiliation with the Enhanced Games. We are overlaying it journalistically. That will make some folks uncomfortable. But discomfort isn’t a disqualifier when the second is that this consequential. The Enhanced Games characterize a historic inflection level in sport. This isn’t a conceit league with a single benefactor. It’s backed by Peter Thiel, founding father of Palantir, and by 1776 Capital, the enterprise fund related to Donald Trump Jr.. Add a reputable path towards going public, and you start to know the size of capital, affect, and ambition behind this mission. That context issues.

In the podcast, Cody sheds actual gentle on the monetary aspect of the league with out disclosing his private contract phrases (although I did simply ask him to to simply give it up). Instead, he frames the deal in sensible, lived phrases, evaluating it to what his Olympic journey paid, demanded, and price him. It’s not theoretical. Cody talks truthfully about incentives, threat, and actuality.

He additionally solutions the toughest query head-on: How do you clarify this resolution to children who look as much as you? No ducking that one. Cody airs it out.

One query I pressed was private. Part of the Enhanced Games messaging leans on the road that they’re “honest about performance-enhancing drugs,” which carries the subtext that conventional Olympians aren’t, that they’re all quietly dishonest. As somebody who mortgaged his life to change into an Olympian, that framing hits a nerve. Cody responded, citing nameless survey analysis suggesting {that a} significant minority of elite athletes admit to doping. He shared the sources, and I’m linking them right here for transparency, not endorsement.

I don’t like these numbers. I don’t like these research. But Cody supplied, and I’m sharing right here based mostly on his podcast reply.

One smaller however telling second: neither of us really knew the Enhanced Games’ age restrict. Cody thought it was 21. I believed it was 25. We had been each improper. Based on present public data, the minimal age seems to be 18 (except the league corrects that).

The podcast runs an hour and two minutes. We coated plenty of floor,  economics, ethics, messaging, private value, and the way forward for sport. If there are questions you want I’d requested Cody, drop them within the feedback.

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