The project was founded by entrepreneurs Aron D'Souza and Maximilian Martin in 2023 and has attracted backing from prominent investors including billionaire Peter Thiel and Donald Trump Jr.
by cmaia1503
The project was founded by entrepreneurs Aron D'Souza and Maximilian Martin in 2023 and has attracted backing from prominent investors including billionaire Peter Thiel and Donald Trump Jr.
by cmaia1503
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i blame The Onion for manifesting this timeline
This reminds me of the old SNL skit “the drug Olympics”
This is so…pointless? I don’t care about any of these ‘achievements’ when you know they’re not real.
This is sponsored by Peter Thiel, so I’m a hard no on watching anything that freak supports. Not that I had any interest in this nonsense to start with.
The Olympic rings tattoo is an ironic nice touch.
conceptually I’m not against this. professional athletes of all kinds use PEDs in all different ways. and natural athletes deserve a level playing field in normal competitions.
but the list of backers is…. yelch.
I have mutuals with a former Olympian competing. Their professional athlete career was winding down & they are getting paid very well (I think $100K?) just to compete
soooo we’re cool with this, but against trans people in sports and/or taking hormones at all… stupid as fuck people with no brains lmao
It’s fascinatingly poorly organized. Apparently insurance was super hard to get (shocker). The tech bros decided to redesign the sports stadium in a way with way worse sightlines. More stuff I don’t remember. This video covers it pretty well: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpaT9_H4ohA](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpaT9_H4ohA)
lol this is so dumb
So Russia gave up trying to break the rules of the standard Olympics and created this instead?
This seems extremely stupid. The athletes that participate on this will forever be marked by participating on this event.
So?
Why is anybody encouraging this?!?!
sounds like a way for someone to like… die?
SNL called this in the 80s
https://youtu.be/jAdG-iTilWU
Beating the WR by “just” .02 goes to show how *INCREDIBLE* that WR is
surely everyone will finish alive
This was literally a SNL sketch
https://youtu.be/jAdG-iTilWU?si=Wv9weXsNGVuTEOPO
I’m not surprised athletes, specifically former Olympians are getting into this. The prize money is attractive (surpasses most normal track events) and the only tradeoff is not ever being able to compete in the Olympics again (which many were aging out of anyway). There’s also the risk of irreversible damage to one’s body but that’s true for any athlete.
Watch them all underperform.
They should have to ballmax to compete. Let’s see them swim with melon sized scrotes.
Thiel is gonna read this and have his interest piqued.
…Okay but why though?
Like I just don’t see the logic behind this.
SNL did this skit already
Yeeeeeah someone’s going to die at this competition.
Damn, I don’t want to watch someone die though. This seems like a good way to be traumatized by live video.
I wonder if there will be any deaths
From a scientific perspective, I actually think it would be interesting to see the differences between times/scores of fully doped up athletes compared to “all-natural”.
But with everyone who is backing this, it can go get fucked.
People need affordable housing not drug olympics.
I know that for contact sports, being juiced is especially dangerous because of the risk of injury and death it posed to the opponent. Not looking forward to the headlines about that