somebody gave Thiel idea of methhead olympics
somebody gave Thiel idea of methhead olympics
The Enhanced Games promises to lure athletes away from the Olympics with vast payments
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/11485138
Peter Thiel, the billionaire co-founder of PayPal, has joined a multi-million dollar investment in the controversial Enhanced Games, a proposed Olympics-style mega-event without drug testing.
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The idea is the brainchild of Dr Aron D’Souza, the Australian lawyer who helped mastermind Thiel’s proxy war against news media organisation Gawker, which led to Gawker’s bankruptcy in 2016.
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But in a recent interview with The Independent, D’Souza was defiant, and outlined how he hoped the Enhanced Games would not only shake up the world of sport, but would provide a public platform for life-extending science to thrive.
“This is the route towards eternal life,” D’Souza said. “It’s how we bring about performance-medicine technologies, that then create a feedback cycle of good technologies, selling to the world, more revenue, more R&D, to develop better and better technologies.
“And what is performance medicine about? It’s not about steroids and getting jacked muscles. It’s about being a better, stronger, faster, younger athlete for longer. And who doesn’t want to be younger for longer?”
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Whelp they have at least one taker:
@gerikson @skillissuer In 6 months he's going to juice up and shave .6 seconds (3%) off his own personal best time in the 50M freestyle that he set 11 years ago.
@carlitoscohones @gerikson @skillissuer and go off to meet his ancestors very soon after