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Exploring the Potential Impact of Enhanced Games on Various Aspects of Sports
Exploring the potential impact of enhanced games on athletes, including revisiting retired athletes, focusing on FIFA, risks of breaking world records, interest from male and female athletes, and the CEO's challenges in scaling.
Today, we bring you a guest who's sending ripples through the sporting and political landscape. Aron D’Souza is the President of the Enhanced Games, the first pro-choice and pro-science alternative to the Olympics. A lawyer by trade, Aron led Peter Thiel’s infamous litigation against Gawker Media involving wrestler Hulk Hogan, a relationship that has led to the PayPal founder becoming one of the Enhanced Games major backers.
Supported by some of the world’s top venture capitalists, the Enhanced Games describe themselves as the Olympics of the future. The major difference? Athletes are allowed to take performance enhancing drugs.
Now, the ethos of the Games is simple. Provide an environment that allows science in sport to flourish, and pay the athletes fairly in the process. Critique of the Games has focused on the risk to athletes' health and the undermining of integrity and fairness in sporting competition.
In today’s show, we discuss:
The use of performance enhancers:
Improving athlete pay:
Changes in wider sport:
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