The head of the US Anti-Doping Agency characterizes the idea as a “dangerous clown show”.
Major investors finance new types of sports competitions that allow the use of performance-enhancing substances. The purpose is to find out what the human body is capable of with the help of scientific inventions.
The name of doping-friendly competitions is Enhanced Games. The organization on the website the Games are characterized as the “Olympics of the future”. The chosen sports are athletics, swimming, gymnastics, strength sports and martial arts.
In the new games, for example, the use of various doping substances and stimulants is allowed. Doping testing is not organized at all. Competitors must be of legal age.
Enhanced Games justifies its line with the fact that many are already using performance-enhancing drugs at the Olympics, and doping testing at the Olympics is ineffective.
The organization claims that allowing the use of substances makes the games more fair.
Enhanced Games revealed in its announcement earlier this week that a tech investor and a billionaire are among the crowdfunders financing the project Peter Thielformer CTO of cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase Balaji Srinivasan and biotechnology investor Christian Angermayer.
President of the organization, an Australian entrepreneur Aron D’Souza says in the release that the goal of the doping-friendly games is to focus on breaking world records.
Expert: Dangerous fooling around
Enhanced Games claims on its website that the goal is to organize the safest international sporting event ever.
Participating athletes are scheduled to undergo extensive health checks, with the help of which the aim is to find out the possibility of health risks.
Experts do not accept Enchanced Games’ claims about safety.
Such competitions would probably be illegal in several US states, estimates the director of the US Anti-Doping Agency Travis Tygart news channel for CNN. He added that it is not a real sport but a “dangerous clown show”.
The organization promises that all participants will be paid a fair compensation. Registration for the games opens at the end of this year.
The date of the first competitions is not yet known.