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Enhanced Games’ Aron D’Souza: “The Olympics are broken”

Enhanced Games’ Aron D’Souza: “The Olympics are broken”

Update: 2024-05-03
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Would you watch an Olympics where everyone was doping? The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Aron D’Souza, co-founder and president of the Enhanced Games, to talk about launching a new competition where everyone is pharmacologically enhanced (6:00 ), the events (10:00 ), why he started it (14:50 ), meeting Peter Thiel (18:20 ), leading the Gawker case (19:30 ), the response from the Olympics (23:00 ), how it could go wrong (26:00 ), making sure noone dies (28:10 ), adding robotics and cybernetics (32:20 ), the funders (35:00 ), lining up media rights (39:00 ), the most recent doping scandal (41:00 ), and the coming legal fight (41:45 ).

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Enhanced Games’ Aron D’Souza: “The Olympics are broken”

Enhanced Games’ Aron D’Souza: “The Olympics are broken”