“I am the fastest man in the world. But you’ve never heard of me.” These are the tantalizing opening lines of the promo video for the Enhanced Games, a prospective annual athletic competition slated to take place for the first time in December 2024. The idea is to feature the traditional Olympic disciplines of track and field, swimming, combat sports, gymnastics, and weightlifting without prohibiting the use of performance-enhancing drugs. The man behind this controversial proposal is the Australian litigator Aron D’Souza, who orchestrated Peter Thiel’s successful lawsuit against Gawker Media. This time, the enemy isn’t a muckraking website, but the International Olympic Committee and the World Anti-Doping Agencies—organizations which, in D’Souza’s view, are either irredeemably corrupt or “anti-science.” D’Souza, who is gay, has framed the mission of the Enhanced Games as being analogous to the LGBTQ community’s fight against bigotry. The organization’s logo is strikingly similar to the yellow and blue equal sign of the Human Rights Campaign. The nameless (and fictitious) narrator in the…
The Dangerous Promise of the Pro-Doping “Enhanced Games”
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