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January 30, 2024

The Enhanced Games: Peter Thiel backs drug-fuelled Olympics-style competition

The Enhanced Games will be the world’s first actively pro-performance enhancement sporting event


Enhanced Games founder Aron D'Souza

The Enhanced Games — an Olympic-style competition where athletes can take performance-enhancing drugs — is today announcing a “single-digit million-dollar” raise ahead of a planned first event in the summer of 2025.

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Kai Nicol-Schwarz

Kai Nicol-Schwarz was a senior reporter at Sifted. He covered AI and UK tech.

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