Enhanced Games Founder on Trump Investment, Superhumanity, and Drug Use in Sports

The Enhanced Games Concept

• 💡 The Enhanced Games aim to create a new type of Olympics where athletes can openly use performance-enhancing substances.
• 🚀 The founder, Aron D’Souza, frames this as the liberation of human potential through science, drawing parallels to Formula 1 where athletes and engineers collaborate.
• 🎯 The goal is to showcase the athlete and scientist working together to achieve extraordinary feats, with technologies potentially diffusing to everyday applications.

Athlete Participation and Financial Incentives

• 🏅 The games plan to feature a select group of athletes, focusing on those who hold or have broken world records.
• 💰 To attract top talent, the Enhanced Games offer a compelling financial package, including a $1 million bonus for breaking a world record.
• ⚖️ This is presented as a solution to the low pay for Olympians, with the founder criticizing the International Olympic Committee (IOC) for its revenue generation versus athlete compensation.

Controversy and Competition Rules

• ⚠️ Critics, like Lord Coe of World Athletics, have called participation "moronic" and threatened bans, which D’Souza argues is anti-competitive behavior and a violation of antitrust laws.
• 🔬 The Enhanced Games will operate under a transparent system, allowing athletes to use substances that are legal and doctor-prescribed in their country of origin, under full scientific and clinical supervision.
• 🌐 The founder believes the medal tally will become a measure of a nation's scientific progress, encouraging more progressive laws on enhancements.

Health, Safety, and Personal Liberty

• 🩺 While acknowledging the risks associated with performance-enhancing drugs, D’Souza emphasizes that the Enhanced Games offer choice, unlike coercive past systems like East Germany's.
• 🧑‍⚕️ Athletes will undergo rigorous medical and scientific supervision, including echocardiograms, MRIs, and blood work, with advisors like Harvard's Professor George Church involved.
• 💪 The concept is linked to the idea of personal liberty and owning one's body, extending to pharmacological and biohacking enhancements, with aging itself viewed as a disease to be treated.

Investment and Political Alignment

• 🤝 The Enhanced Games have attracted investment from figures like Donald Trump Jr., Peter Thiel, and RFK, who support the mission of creating "superhumanity."
• 🇺🇸 This is contrasted with the current Biden-Harris administration's condemnation, highlighting an ideological divide on technological progress.
• 🌐 D’Souza states he supports any politician who believes in superhumity and technology, regardless of party, and has an Obama portrait in his home.

Media and Privacy

• 📺 Broadcasts will primarily be on streaming and social media, bypassing traditional legacy media like NBC or Fox.
• 🗣️ D’Souza views the Enhanced Games as a matter of freedom and choice, drawing parallels to the "my body my choice" thesis.
• ⚖️ He also discussed his role in the Peter Thiel-backed lawsuit against Gawker, framing it as a victory for the right to privacy.