Did Ryan Lochte ever consider the Enhanced Games? - Night Swim Podcast
Did Ryan Lochte ever consider competing in the **Enhanced Games**? 🏊♂️🔥 In this episode of the **Night Swim Podcast**, the Olympic legend discusses his thoughts on the controversial new sporting concept and whether he ever considered being part of it. Lochte shares his perspective on performance enhancement, elite competition, and the future of professional swimming. What does one of the most decorated swimmers in history think about the Enhanced Games? Watch the full conversation and hear Ryan's take.
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Video Transcript
I have asked this question to almost every guest, so I have to ask.
Have you ever considered joining the Enhanced Games, or would you?
Yes and no.
I would just for, like, giggles.
But, I mean, like I said, it doesn't matter.
Like, you could be taking, like, enhancements, you still have to do the work.
It's not, like, a freebie.
Like, just because you do enhancements, you're gonna be the best.
No, not at all.
So that was where I was, drew the line.
I was like, "I'm done with training.
I've done it more than anyone, and now it's time to move on and start coaching the younger generation."
So even if they paid me millions and millions of dollars, I couldn't do it.
Wow.
What do you think about Hunter Armstrong basically pulling, you know- See, but that's- he was estimating everybody, and then he pulls their card and See, that's what is so awesome about the Enhancement Games is, yes, you can be enhanced and participate, but you don't have to be enhanced and still participate.
And it's life-changing money, which, in swimming, we have not seen this kind of money before.
There's only maybe, like, 2% or 3% of the entire world that is luckily enough to make a living off of swimming.
That's it.
And this is life-changing for, like, people like Hunter, Cody Miller.
Like, he's doing it for his family, and he got paid a load of money, 10 times more than what he did at winning a gold medal at the Olympics.
So, and what I like about it is, I always told Phelps this when we first started being on the national team together, he's like, "I want to make swimming bigger than what it is."
And I'm finding my way to make swimming bigger now with the younger generation.
Yes, by coaching, but also I have this other business that I'm doing that's gonna change youth swimming around the world, and that's what I wanna do.
And that's what Enhancements Games is doing.
It's bringing more people all around the world involved in the sport of swimming, and that's what I want.
I wanna put swimming in everyone's living room- Word not just every four years.
