Well, it’s finally happening. The Enhanced Games kick off today at 3:30 PT / 6:30 ET in Las Vegas (lol ofc), and they’re streaming it live HERE
The Enhanced Games website sells products aimed at the “biohacking” crowd, from a $119 GHK-CU copper peptide cream, to offering a telehealth service that gets you testosterone or GLP-1 injections. One of their backers billionaire Christian Angermayer (who famously owns the largest triceratops skull ever discovered) said: “Humans want to optimize themselves, throughout history. (…) None of us, including me, will ever break a world record. But maybe you want to lose weight. There’s so many stories we can tell.” So basically this a very expensive commercial to attract customers to a much larger performance-enhancement and longevity business.
– Aron D’Souza (helped Peter Thiel with his Gawker lawsuit, rank vibes overall)
– Peter Thiel (y’all already know who this asshole is)
– Christian Angermayer (dumb fuck who thinks “Dinosaur fossils are the ultimate collectible”)
– 1789 Capital (an investment fund that Dumbass Trump Jr in part of)
– probably a bunch of other rich sacks of shit
28 athletes on the roster are former Olympians, 6 of them have medaled. Unsurprisingly, a couple of them have gotten in hot water for either missing tests, failing tests or trying to tamper with the investigation. Swimmer Hunter Armstrong (2x Gold), and sprinter Fred Kerley (Silver and Broze medalist, currently serving a two-year suspension) have chosen to compete without enhancements (lol ok what’s the point then).
Hafþór Júlíus “Thor” Björnsson (aka “The Mountain” from GOT) will try to break his 510 kg (1,124 freedom units) deadlift record.
Funnily enough, there’s as sprinter named Shania Collins competing, who had to decide between going to Quantico for DEA agent training and training for the Enhanced Games in Dubai (UAE always at the scene of the crime). ESPN did a feature on her, she was a former national champion who eventually just couldn’t keep up, she seems to think this is bc everyone else was doping (“Am I out of touch? No, it’s the children who are wrong!”)
ONTD, do you think billionaires are so into biohacking bc they know if a hell exists, their eternal afterlife will be spent running across a burning desert while flakes of fire rain down from the sky? Or are they just still salty about not being popular jocks in high school?
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