"Enhanced Games"--where doping is legal and encouraged!--to debut in Las Vegas

There's already a sport where drug usage is not only permitted, but implicitly condoned: professional wrestling, especially any bouts/fighters with dirtball scumbag Vince McMahon is involved. Hell, he's probably these wrestlers' dealer.

Did someone tell Junior that coke is not considered a PED?

I think it's tremendous. At last the athletes will be on an equal footing

Peter Thiel is just looking for athletes to bang

This is actually unbelievably pathetic.

^ Yep. Few, if any, big name athletes will join something so gimmicky. And the Trump connection will alienate people

As experiment and provocation and brainstorming the future, it's interesting.

No, it's not interesting. Just a vanity event for right-wing edgelords and Peter Thiel shills

What athletes would want to be associated with this?

The founder was the guy that helped Peter thiel sue gawker apparently he was the go between the lawyer and thiel.

Hi!

R4 also judging by the founders instagram follows I’m guessing that he is similarly motivated...he even follows the new fire island account.

Digging around more and apparently the enhanced games founder is also involved in New Fire island. I have to wonder if Thiel has also offered funding for Aron’s other project.

Bored rich people are boring.

Eddie Izzard - Stoned Olympics

I’ll do great in the Women’s swimming competition.

There’ll be at least one Olympic god medalist there - long retired, though.

*Gold, obvs

R13, yes, this and the "new Fire Island" are the projects of Aron D'Souza, Peter Thiel's "friend"

Both projects seem like scams

We're living in the most absurd timeline.

I was just about to look for that one, R20!

Who is pictured at OP?

Datalounge: this is MAGA and Trump and doping druggy garbage.

Also, Datalounge: “ABSOLUTELY NO DRUGS IF YOU WANT TO PLAY!!! Alcohol and poppers and weed are ok. And mushrooms. And maybe some E. BUT NO DRUGS!”

Lance Armstrong and Marion Jones will finally be able to compete again. Yay!!!

I also think Serena Williams and Rafael Nadal should join. *wink wink*

R23 = Donald Trump Jr

[quote]Who is pictured at OP?

swimmer James Magnussen from Auistralia

James Magnussen has trashed his reputation, all for a chance to remain relevant. He's also endangered his health.

I don’t know anything about all that R27. But he’s handsome as fuck.

Couldn't they (Thiel and D'sSouza) just invest in the Fyre Festival? It would've been easier.

My understanding is that the enhanced games is more of a promotional event for Peter and Aron’s steroid telahealth thing.

But a trans should compete in women’s sports? What’s the difference?

The contrast between pre PEDs in R26 and after using them in R17 is startling, even accounting for the time difference.

Magnussen looked pretty much the same until recently and he said in the documentary that he put on too much weight at first on the PEDs. He’s pretty much unrecognisable in R17.

Having said that, he’s always had a reputation for being a bit of a dick - even when he was winning Olympic gold. He led a group of swimmers bullying other swimmers including young teenaged women during the London Olympics where Australia performed well below expectations.

Will there be a figure skating competition?

R34 sadly not. The events listed are pretty limited right now. Just four swimming events, two running events and two weightlifting events x2 for men’s and women’s for a 16 total events.

I hope the blowback from the overdoses eats their asses.

Can we please not put ‘blowback’ and ‘eats their asses’ in a sentence together.

The Australian sports media are huffing and puffing with indignation. How could "our" James do this? Not surprisingly Peter FitzSimons is leading the pack. The same journalist that makes wishy-washy statements about "being more inclusive" when it comes to fairness in women's sport. Since I subscribe to that paper I couldn't resist leaving a comment: Why is raising testosterone cheating but lowering it inclusion? Of course it wasn't published

^ Welcome to the Datalounge, Peter Thiel!

It's a shitshow that only exists to sell supplements

This is what trans people should join.

When somebody's heart seizes during an event...

Hi OP. It’s just the one Mint, not Mints. Don’t give him any extra credit.

R41, why would they want to associate with Donald Trump Jr and a bunch of right-wing Peter Thiel lackeys?

It seem like very few athletes in general want anything to do with this

R40 That and its an excuse to ogle roided up athletes.

R15 "Eddie Izzard - Stoned Olympics"

THAT grifter and hopeless cross-dresser who only owns like two outfits, continues to have a man's hairstyle with a bit of lipstick. He'll do anything for attention. Scammed that gay comedy night on Netflix though has done no activism. Best he could do : "I'm a lesbian in a man's body". Any truck driver would say that...