“The future of sport is here: We are on a mission to redefine superiority through science, innovation and sports.”
The goal of an ambitious without shame, or at least choosing words. However, the “redefining the superfinch” is not enough for improved games, a startup that plans to hold a Olympic -style competition next year in Las Vegas.
The project also seeks to “re -invent sports knowing.”
Translation: Not only allowing PEDS, not only encouraging their use, but celebrating their use.
Or in Juice Among the authors of the improved games, “We are the pioneers of a new era in sporting competition that adopts scientific progress to push the limits of human performance.”
Breaking the world record in swimming or swimming events will pay compensation for one million dollars for athlete, which is one of the many performance rewards that promised to reinforce. Where does the money come from? It is said that investors include Conservative billionaire Peter Thil, Saudi Prince Khalid bin Alwad Al Soud, and Donald Trump Junior.
From the boldness of the message to the deep pockets that finance the project for athletes who have been seduced by the possibility of gaining large money and setting global records, the improved games deserve a closer look.
Why enhanced games in the news?
The President of the International Anti -Doping Agency (WADA) with a warning last week At a meeting of sports leaders in the Summer Olympic Games, Warning that improved games pose a threat to everything that is sacred and decent in global sport.
“This initiative seeks to normalize the use of drugs that are likely to be dangerous,” Panca said. For the health of sport and the purity of sport, of course, it must be stopped.
“With the approaching Olympic Games for 2028 in Los Angeles, we cannot allow what should be a celebration of the sincere sporting endeavor that is overwhelmed by this satirical attempt to undermine clean sport. We will urge the American authorities to find legal ways to prevent this initiative.”
With a press conference at the Summer Olympics 2024 on July 25, 2024, in Paris.
(Michelle Uler / Associated Press)
Pay the banka warning to unify the eye in some circles. The Senate for Consumer Protection, Technology and Data Privacy will Hold a hearing Tuesday, entitled “Wada Al -Asham: Swimming in denial of Chinese stimulants.”
WADA refused to investigate the claims of 23 Chinese swimmers testing positively for PED before the Tokyo Olympics. With LA games in 2028 and Salt Lake City Games in 2034, the Senate Committee also plans to address claims that the inconsistent WADA application led to unfair competitions affecting American athletes.
The CEO of USAADA Travis Tygart Banka accused the reinforced games to distract her from the upcoming Senate session, Tell Associated Press“Panca’s discontent equals his wrong information or his ignorance on how free democratic societies and markets work.”
This does not mean that Tygart is A-OK with an endeavor that encourages the use of PEDS and the resulting polluted achievements.
“As we said again and again, for all the clear reasons, the improved games or any other open competition is a bad idea,” Tigart said in the comments. By email to Agence France-Presse. “If he really wants to ask the United States to do something, it must appear and ask the Senate to do something.”
The first global sports body back is the global water, which A base passed two weeks ago This is prohibited by any swimmer that supports improved games – even if they never compete – to represent their country again.
Former Olympic athlete Michael Phelps, (from the left) Travis Taigart, CEO of the American Anti -Doping Agency, and former Olympic athlete Alison Schmid, the oath during a sub -committee session of supervision and investigations in Capitol Hill on June 25, 2024.
(Nathan Howard / Getti Emaiz)
the a base It applies to those who “support, support or participate in sporting events that adopt the use of scientific developments or other practices that may include prohibited materials and/or prohibited methods.”
When and where will the improved games be made?
The improved games will target universal records in swimming and lifting weights The world resorts At Las Vegas on the weekend memorial, 2026.
Swallow swimming events are a 50 -meter and 100 meter free race, 50 meters and 100 meters. The weightlifting will include kidnapping and cave. The path events will include 100 meters and the obstacles with a length of 110 meters.
Chef Ray Garcia, ¡VIVA! It is located inside the World Las Vegas resort on Thursday, June 24, 2021.
(Maria Tagger/Los Angeles Times)
Each event will carry a prizes of $ 500,000, with $ 250,000 for each winner. In addition, the rewards will be paid for global records, including one million dollars for records in the 100 meters and 50 -meter free race, which the improved games site describes as “the final tests of raw human speed”.
The improved games will be held inside the resort. The competition complex is characterized by a four -laxative swimming, a six -laxative racing path and a weightlifting stage.
Who came with this and why?
Founder and head of improved games Aaron de Souza, Australian businessman. D’Aza was a crusade to create an alternative to the Olympic Games, which is believed to not compensate for athletes fairly.
It calls for the use of PEEDS, on the pretext that athletes must have the freedom to make choices around their bodies and that WADA is working as an anti -science police force “for the International Olympic Committee.
Previously, D’Aza led Thil lawsuit against the media Gawker Hulk Hogan, which led to one of the largest invasion of privacy provisions in history, is the subject of the book.plot” By author Ryan Holiday.
D’souza is a founder SergonTechnology Infrastructure Company in Australia, New Zealand and Hong Kong. He sold his share in the company in 2018.
(LR) attends Amy Chua and Peter Thiel on the eve of the opening hosted by Uber, X and Free Press in Cafe Riggs on January 19, 2025 in Washington, DC.
(Leigh Vogel / Getty Images for Uber, X and Free Press)
The extent to which the billionaire will finance investors, such as Thiel, Alwaled Al Suud and Trump Jr. For improved games, unclear. Money is not a problem, if the data is on The event site He believes: “We are supported by some of the world’s owners of capitalists in the world, allowing us to work independently without government financing and taxpayers.”
D’Aza The Associated Press told the Trump Junior group, called 1789 Capital, brings “millions of numbers” to improved games. Trump Junior made A video clip of its partnership, This includes the appearance of his father, President Trump.
“This is related to American excellence, innovation and domination on the world stage – which is about the Maga movement,” Trump Junior said in a statement accompanying the financing announcement.
D’Aza is pleased to support the first family in America and other money that has been money.
He said in a video call in February: “Knowing that some of the most important numbers in American social and political life supports improved games more important to us than any investment.” “I have the great wealth at work alongside many members of the administration and other prominent figures of the Trump movement over the years, so they are very suitable.”
D’Aza and his team express the noble goals beyond juicy athletes, score records and pay the winners of the race. Last week, d’souza Publish a lot on LinkedIn:
“This is not only about reinforcement. It is related to economic freedom. About a option for athletes. About breaking the monopoly that old institutions enjoy human performance.
“In improved games, we are not apologists: we are not retreating. We will fight – in the courts, in the public arena, and in the field of ideas – for every athlete who has been associated with, salaries or disposal of it.”
Why do you prevent performance enhanced medications anyway?
the Sanitary risk list Associated with the taking of anabolic steroids – which does not enjoy the medical use approved by the United States government – is long and frightening:
Men may see their breasts and prostate gland grow and shrink their testicle. Women may get a deeper sound, body hair grow and lose hair on their head. Both men and women may destroy tendons or develop liver tumors, severe acne, high blood pressure, heart problems, issues related to anger and depression.
The improved games say that the competition will be under the supervision of a medical team, but by the time the games begin, the damage caused by PEDS may have already evolved.
“Protection of athletes is our top priority,” declares the improved site. “Every competitor will undergo a strict medical description, in the latest model before participating in the competition.”
The first athlete showing results from the use of the improved gaming system Christian GalleumeovAn unprecedented Greek swimmer in four Olympics.
In February, GKOLOMEV swized two hundred seconds than the world record of 50 meters with a time of 20.89. He was wearing a full -body open water suit by the world.
“I am like a driver in the car, but I need the team behind,” Gokolomewf said during a reinforced game last month in Las Vegas.
Christian Gallemeniof is competing in Greece in the semi -finals of men, 50 meters long, during the European Water Championship, at the Milan Jill Moscatirovich Sports Center in Belgrade, on June 22, 2024.
(Andrej Isakovic / AFP via Getty Images)
Many believe that breaking the records under the influence of PEDS is meaningless.
Paul IFRIM, Luger Romanian, who finished twenty in the 2010 Winter Olympics, responded to the D’Asza LinkedIn post by this comment:
“I won my place in the Olympic Games through hard and clean work and fixed dedication for many years. Integrity, clean play, respect, and perseverance are what inspires and form real athletes. Your argument for” strengthening “drugs, which is considered” compensation for athletes “, is a sample of these principles.
“What is the message that we send to the ambitious young athletes? Cheating and cutting angles is a good way to succeed? These are pity excuses for undermining the true spirit of competition. You are fake to enhance this agenda. The real athletes pass through the grains and honor, and not shortcuts and the two sons.”
Tygart, CEO of USADA, had a similar reaction: “While those behind improved games may look forward to rapid profit, this profit will come at the expense of children around the world who believe they need risks to chase their dreams. We wish this investment be achieved in athletes who are currently training in the real and safe way.
“It is the role model of this world that it needs, and they are the ones who deserve our support – and not some of the dangerous clown that puts profit on the principle.”
Counter -point It was published last summer By anti -doping expert Michael Ashindin, who helped establish a sports passport system and develop a blood -enhanced drug test (EPO).
Initially, opposition to improved games, not Ashindin, as he wrote that Wada’s failures in anti -doping in the Olympic Games make an applicable alternative.
“Today, I defend the concept of improved games to coexist with the Olympic movement, provided that the athletes do nothing illegal,” Ashinden wrote. “I realized that not following the rules of WADA was not very radical after all ….”
“I acknowledge that by providing incentives for recordings, improved games implicitly encourage the use of performance reinforced materials. But by providing a gold medal, the Olympic movement also stimulates the use of performance enhanced materials ….
“Although it might be the bitter birth control pills for the Olympic movement, it was expected that it would create sports marketing under their supervision an environment that makes the disruption of companies.”
