There is a new tournament funded by the likes of Peter Thiel that allows athletes to take drug-enhancing drugs. They claim that they will be the new Olympics, whatever this means.
Image prompt: A humorous scene at the Olympics, featuring two athletes in a sprint race. On the left, a traditionally fit athlete, poised and running with a focused expression, embodies the classic image of health and athleticism. On the right, an exaggeratedly muscular athlete, bursting with an absurd amount of muscles, runs with a comical expression, mouth overflowing with colorful pills, epitomizing the extreme of performance-enhancing drugs. The contrast highlights the ridiculousness of "The Enhanced Games", set against the iconic Olympic rings in the background, under a bright, clear sky.
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This is great. This way we can spend more resources on actually improving human abilities through effective and publicized pharmaceutical interventions, not merely watching people using poorly researched not-yet-banned substances and grinding their health to the oblivion from early ages for the dumb sports.
@ChinmayTheMathGuy What's going on with horse racing? Are they drugging the horse and using and abusing them in exchange or capital gains?
Nah I think this is bad. You're just creating an incentive for people to slowly kill themselves basically. Imagine how shitty it'd be if there was competition, and whoever could chain-smoke the most cigarettes without getting dizzy would win.
@jBosc In pro bodybuilding it has been like this for decades. Steroids are banned for Mr. Olympia and yet everyone and their mom knows that the guys on stage are roided out of their minds. They're likely to die younger, but they don't give a damn, they want to look like the biggest chicken on stage. If they aren't the largest loaf of bread that ever walked the earth, they're not happy.
It looks ridiculous and is unhealthy as hell, at the same time it's somewhat interesting to see what the (enhanced) human body can do in the limit.
For me personally as long as all participants are in it by their on choice and are informed about the implications it's up to them. So I'm neither for nor particularly against it.
@jBosc Do you think there's any significant scientific knowledge being gained from these people being willing drug test subjects?