{"id":28329,"date":"2025-10-15T22:52:56","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T22:52:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=28329"},"modified":"2025-10-15T22:52:56","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T22:52:56","slug":"this-thiel-backed-venture-allows-doping-in-its-own-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=28329","title":{"rendered":"This Thiel-backed venture allows doping in its own sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Backed by Peter Thiel and Donald Trump Jr.\u2019s 1789 Capital, the Enhanced Games aims to disrupt the Olympics with a competition that allows athletes to dope. Launching in Las Vegas in May 2026, the games promise $1 million bounties for breaking world records and lean on a business model reminiscent of Red Bull\u2019s, using the spectacle as marketing for future enhancement products.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today on TechCrunch\u2019s Equity podcast, Rebecca Bellan spoke with Aron D\u2019Souza, co-founder and president of the Enhanced Games, about the business of enhancement, what it means to build in the longevity space, and who gets to do it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Subscribe to Equity on Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify and all the casts. You also can follow Equity on<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EquityPod\"> X<\/a> and Threads, at @EquityPod.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Backed by Peter Thiel and Donald Trump Jr.\u2019s 1789 Capital, the Enhanced Games aims to disrupt the Olympics with a competition that allows athletes to dope. Launching in Las Vegas in May 2026, the games promise $1 million bounties for breaking world records and lean on a business model reminiscent of Red Bull\u2019s, using the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28330,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[4217,992,9098,7263],"class_list":{"0":"post-28329","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-doping","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-thielbacked","11":"tag-venture"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28329\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}