[ExI] "Olympics on steroids" takes a high-tech, F1-style angle on athletics

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"Olympics on steroids" takes a high-tech, F1-style angle on athletics
By Loz Blain   February 07, 2024

<https://newatlas.com/sports/enhanced-games-olympics-steroids/>
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It seems the Enhanced Games are on like Donkey Kong, with
multi-million dollar investments from Peter Thiel and other
high-profile VCs. Performance-enhancing drugs are welcome – indeed,
this could become an early preview of a transhuman Olympics.

You could argue the Tour de France beat them to it – or indeed the
regular Olympics themselves; of the top six fastest men ever to run
the 100-meter sprint, only Usain Bolt has never tested positive for
banned substances.

And maybe we're being too precious about the sanctity of the human
body, in an age where bionics, brain chips, AI, gene editing and all
manner of transhumanist technologies are coming within reach. If this
stuff can make us better, maybe we should let it, and maybe the
Enhanced Games are a symbolic step in that direction.
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