The Enhanced Games will allow athletes to use substances banned by the World Anti-Doping Agency Wada) in D’Souza’s words performance medicine technology” to give them the opportunity to push the limits of humanity”.
On Feb 10, D’Souza landed a major coup when Australia’s retired world champion swimmer James Magnussen agreed to take banned performance-enhancing drugs to make an attempt at beating Brazilian Cesar Cielo’s 15-year-old 50m freestyle world record for US$1 million S$1.35 million).
“We want athletes who have the potential to break world records and we're going to really focus on those best athletes and pay them well,” the Enhanced Games president told Reuters in an interview.
“I do have some current national and world record-holders who are ready to jump ship because, I’ll be honest, it was hard before James because dealing with these athletes who are so cagey, they’re so worried about their reputation.”
The London-based Australian announced in January that he had attracted big-name investors in PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel, German tech investor Christian Angermayer and former Coinbase chief technology officer Balaji Srinivasan.
D’Souza’s vision is of a Games where athletes, competing for themselves and not their countries, are allowed to use pharmacological or technological assistance to achieve the best results they can and be richly rewarded for it.
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