Published 3 months ago

A Drug-Friendly Olympics Just Took a Step Closer to Becoming a Reality

The Enhanced Games plans to be an inclusive sports league that allows all adults to compete, regardless of their natural, adaptive, or enhanced status.
Peter Thiel, a billionaire co-founder of PayPal, has invested in the Enhanced Games, which openly embraces the use of performance-enhancing drugs.
The Enhanced Games, backed by high-profile investors, will focus on individual sports with events in five core categories and will not conduct drug tests, claiming to be the safest international sporting event.

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BBC News

Olympians interested in Enhanced Games

Athletes scheduled to participate at this summer's Paris Olympics express an interest in competing in the Enhanced Games, where doping is allowed, says event founder Aron D'Souza.

3 months ago·United Kingdom

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The Guardian

Enhanced Games: drug-friendly sports competition gains prominence even as the backlash grows

Swimmer James Magnussen says he would ‘come on board as their first athlete’, but others view the proposed event as ‘scary and dangerous’

3 months ago·London, United Kingdom

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The Independent

Welcome to the Enhanced Games, the Olympics with NO drug testing

Seb Coe says ‘it’s a joke, unfair, and unsafe’. The head of US anti-doping calls it ‘a dangerous clown show’. Lawrence Ostlere talks to Dr Aron D’Souza, the Australian lawyer who wants to launch the Enhanced Games, a controversial Olympic-style mega-event in which doping is not just allowed but actively encouraged...

3 months ago·London, United Kingdom

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Reuters

Enhanced Games out to disrupt 'old, slow' Olympics with doped up athletes

Aron D'Souza believes he is about to join the ranks of the great entrepreneurial disruptors through his Enhanced Games which targets the "hypocritical, corrupt and dysfunctional" Olympic Games.

3 months ago·United Kingdom

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Daily Mirror

'Olympics on drugs' concept backed by PayPal billionaire chasing eternal life

The Enhanced Games, a zany idea which aims to pit drugged-up athletes against each other in the name of science and making money, has received funding from PayPal billionaire Peter Thiel

3 months ago·London, United Kingdom

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Sydney Morning Herald

Magnussen accepts $1.5m offer to ‘juice to the gills’ as Olympian puts hand up to coach him

Australia’s former swimming star James Magnussen says that for a seven-figure sum he would come out of retirement to compete in an Olympic-style event that allowed doping.

3 months ago·Sydney, Australia

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