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Peter Thiel, co-founder of PayPal, is involved in the founding of the Enhanced Games, an Olympic initiative that not only accepts the use of doping substances, but promotes it.
This was revealed on Wednesday when Thiel was listed among the games’ main investors. In contrast to the traditional Olympic Games, where the use of doping substances is strictly prohibited, it should be allowed here.
But despite the innovative approach, doctors warn about the potentially harmful side effects of steroid use.
This is a machine translation of an article from our US colleagues at Business Insider. It was automatically translated and checked by an editor.
Peter Thiel supports the attempt to create an Olympic Games where the use of performance-enhancing drugs is welcome.
The co-founder of PayPal and Palantir was in one Press release on Wednesday as one of several VCs investing in The Enhanced Games. Also named were Christian Angermayer’s Apeiron Investment Group and former Coinbase CTO Balaji Srinivasan.
“Just as the ancient 1896 Olympics were revived and renovated for the Victorian world, the Enhanced Games renew the Olympic model for the twenty-first century,” said Aron D’Souza, president of the Enhanced Games, in a statement Press release from Wednesday: “In an age of accelerating technological and scientific change, the world needs a sporting event that embraces the future, particularly advances in medical science.”
Doctors warn against steroids
The Enhanced Games are planning “health checks before and after the competitions” as well as “advanced screenings to check for previous illnesses, e.g. B. the heart risk,” says Dr. Michael Sagner, MD, of King’s College London, who is a member of the Enhanced Games Scientific and Medical Advisory Committee, said in the press release.
Doctors warn that the… Taking steroids can have harmful side effectsincluding mood swings, loss of bone density and an increased risk of serious infections.
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Die Olympics ban the use of hundreds of medicines and drugs, including categories such as stimulants, anabolic steroids, and hormone and metabolic modulators. Many of these agents can influence athletes’ performance by accelerating muscle growth, improving blood circulation, or increasing energy and concentration.
Just this week it was Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva was retroactively disqualified from the 2022 Beijing Olympics after the Court of Arbitration for Sport ruled that she had violated anti-doping rules.
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