Australian Aron D’Souza wants to host an Olympic Games where doping is expressly permitted. He hopes this will lead to new world records and scientific findings. But there are contradictions.
“NZZ accent”: Will the Olympic Games involve doping?
Authors Antonia Moser, Nadine Landert
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Aron D’Souza likes to serve with a large ladle. He hopes that the Enhanced Games will result in nothing less than an improvement in human beings; he dreams of becoming a super human. D’Souza is a transhumanist and wants to improve the body as much as possible with medicine and technology. Doping substances are intended to help increase performance.
The major sports associations were skeptical about this idea, and one official described it as “nonsense”. But D’Souza cannot be dissuaded. He deftly counters any criticism and says it is safer for the athletes to take part in the Enhanced Games. The athletes would have to state exactly what they had taken and would be monitored by a doctor.
“Sports doctors, however, doubt this promise. The Enhanced Games may be safe in the short term, but the long-term damage of doping has not yet been sufficiently researched,” says sports editor Christof Krapf in the podcast. But D’Souza doesn’t let such contradictions stop him: He speaks of thousands of applications from athletes who want to take part in the Enhanced Games.
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