Enhanced Video games: audacious plan for sporting occasion with out drug testing | Medication in sport

An Olympic-styled competitors for drug-taking athletes is being launched by an Australian entrepreneur.

Melbourne-born, London-based businessman, Aron D’Souza is the president of Enhanced Video games, a coalition of athletes, medical doctors and scientists. He plans to stage the inaugural video games of no drug testing in December subsequent yr, with two high-profile Australian athletes amongst these expressing curiosity.

The competitors is difficult the Olympic Video games mannequin which, he says, is damaged.

“The IOC (Worldwide Olympic Committee) has successfully been a one-party state working the world of sport for 100 years,” D’Souza informed AAP. “And now the opposition celebration is right here. We’re prepared for a combat. I do know they will play soiled. I do know they will threaten us. However finally we all know that we’re morally right.”

5 sports activities classes – observe and subject, swimming, weightlifting, gymnastics, and fight sports activities – will probably be on this system of the Enhanced Video games, to be held yearly.

Australia’s Olympic chef de mission for Paris 2024 and former Olympic gold medallist Anna Meares says she is appalled by the idea. “It’s a joke, to be trustworthy. Unfair, unsafe — I simply don’t assume that is the proper method to go about sport,” she stated.

D’Souza stays defiant: “Athletes are adults … and so they have a proper to do with their physique what they want – my physique, my selection; your physique, your selection,” he stated. “And no authorities, no paternalistic sports activities federation, must be making these selections for athletes – notably round merchandise which might be FDA regulated and accredited.”

D’Souza stated there was nice curiosity about any restrict to human endeavours. “It’s not only a query of can we break the nine-second 100 metre, I’m positive we’ll,” he stated. “I need to see a 40, 50, 60-year-old break world information as a result of efficiency drugs is the rod to anti-ageing, it’s the path to the fountain of youth. Nothing will enhance the productiveness of our society greater than stopping ageing. It appears like science fiction now however we stay sooner or later, have a look at the rise of synthetic intelligence and different applied sciences.

“And the explanation why anti-ageing has been so stymied within the scientific group is as a result of tons of of thousands and thousands of {dollars} of taxpayer cash all over the world goes to fund anti-science authorities – ie WADA, USADA, Sports activities Integrity Australia – whose job it’s to cease scientific progress. The fact is that the IOC and WADA have created an unsafe system which has compelled using efficiency enhancements underground.”

A location for the inaugural Enhanced Video games was but to be settled however a metropolis wouldn’t must spend exorbitant funds to host, as Olympic cities do, he stated. “By decreasing it from 13,000 (Olympic) athletes to perhaps a few thousand, no specialist infrastructure – as an alternative of costing $100 billion to ship this, it’s going to price double-digit thousands and thousands,” D’Souza stated.

D’Souza stated competing athletes can be given shares in Enhanced Video games, a for-profit entity which he was self-funding but additionally attracting curiosity from traders in California’s Silicon Valley, the placement of many start-up and international tech corporations together with Apple and Google.

“For those who take part, you’re going to get inventory within the league and be a co-owner and that’s actually vital to us as a result of that’s going to be a chance for athletes to generate wealth,” he stated. “I assumed that should you had been an Olympian and received a gold medal, your life is made – it’s not the case. It’s unhappy to see individuals who have achieved the best stage of human excellence and so they’re dwelling an objectively impoverished existence. On the identical time you’ve gotten these sports activities bureaucrats incomes thousands and thousands.”

The Enhanced Video games web site bears an inventory of ‘enhanced world information’ which celebrates the achievements of athletes stripped of medals and information for doping.

“The IOC has dedicated itself to vilifying enhanced athletes,” it reads. “Every Olympiad, one other cohort of courageous athletes units new world information, solely to have their medals revoked, their careers suspended, and their names dragged via the mud. It’s time to finish this oppressive cycle. The Enhanced Video games hereby reinstates the world information set by the next athletes and commends them for his or her bravery.”

The record contains seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong, who was later stripped of his medals for testing optimistic to performance-enhancing medication.