Enhanced Games respond to White House “Deep Concern”; Invite Collaboration with IOC

• The Enhanced Games respond to “deep concern” comments
  from the White House with a pledge to unwavering commitment to fairness in sports competition, supported by rigorous science.
• Invites IOC/Olympics to join a science-based partnership with the Enhanced Games.
• Fully support President Biden’s goal of a natural Olympics – which the Enhanced Games make more achievable.

March 18, 2024 – In response to the recent statement by the White House expressing “deep concern” about the Enhanced Games and President Biden’s aspirations for a natural and honest Olympic Games, the Enhanced Games affirm its essential role in creating a fair environment for Olympic athletes in any competition they might choose to participate.

Of crucial note are recent scientific findings, including research commissioned and funded by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) itself, which underscore the existing prevalence of performance enhancements among elite athletes. This data, originally published in the Journal of Sports Medicine in 2018, uncovered that a staggering 44% of elite athletes had utilized banned performance enhancements within the past year.

Dr Michael Sagner, MD, scientific advisor to the Enhanced Games, emphasized, “Whilst the aim of an enhancement-free Olympics is a noble one, it is not and has never been true. Olympic drug testing is ineffective and full of loopholes. This is also partly because they do not have baseline clinical data on elite athletes using performance enhancements. The Enhanced Games, with our medical oversight and screening apparatus, will create this unique data which will benefit not only the tested sports community but also Longevity Science in general as many compounds can be repurposed to combat illnesses such as frailty which are endemic in modern society.”

The Enhanced Games pledge to share all data created on an anonymised basis with the Olympics, so that the IOC can finally develop effective tests, thereby making their competition truly fair and natural.

It is furthermore notable that research conducted by Professor David Nutt at Imperial College London and published in The Lancet confirms that performance enhancements pose significantly less health risk than commonly accepted substances like alcohol, tobacco, and cannabis.

In a bid to foster informed discourse, the Enhanced Games extend an invitation to the IOC and the White House to engage in collaborative dialogue, just as the British Parliament did by convening the First Conference on Human Enhancement in collaboration with the Enhanced Games last month.

Dr Aron D’Souza, President of the Enhanced Games, said, “President Biden, please trust the science and recognize that the Olympics will never be clean until there is an Enhanced Games. This is why we are offering to cooperate with the IOC and the White House in order to make the Olympics truly clean, natural and fair. The Enhanced Games are no competition to the Olympics, but an entirely new event which is very complementary and has an important place in a science-based society.”

Dr D’Souza adds: “We urge President Biden to engage with the Enhanced Games on what is an inevitable evolution in sports. As a champion of science, President Biden has the opportunity to help the 44% of athletes who have used performance enhancements to come out and safely compete. Only with a formal partnership between the IOC and Enhanced Games, can Olympics drug testing finally be effective and ensure the integrity of their games.”

For more on the topic of human enhancement, please read the opinion piece of Enhanced Games Co-Founder and lead investor Christian Angermayer: https://christianangermayer.substack.com/p/the-future-is-enhanced

On the 30th of January 2024, the Enhanced Games announced the closing of its Series Seed funding round with the participation of leading venture capitalists including Christian Angermayer’s Apeiron Investment Group, PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel, and former Coinbase CTO Balaji Srinivasan. 

Since then, the announcement of the multi-million dollar round (which gives Enhanced the financial foundations to deliver a world-class sporting event) has been covered by more than 30 news article, including Forbes, Business Insider and The Independent.

If you would like to interview the President of the Enhanced Games, please contact us on our Media Enquiries page.

Since the 20th of June, 2023, 580 media articles have been written about the Enhanced Games, globally.

The top 16 media articles have been compiled below.

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The drug testing program enforced by the Olympics and the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) is oppressive and ineffective. What’s worse, it’s dishonest.

Dishonest

The Olympic Games aren’t as ‘drug-free’ as many would claim them to be. Whilst most athletes make best efforts to comply with the WADA code of conduct, a significant proportion of athletes take WADA-noncompliant enhancements, supplements, and medications. Indeed, a 2011 WADA commissioned study (granting guaranteed anonymity to respondents) found that 43.6% of ‘WADA-compliant’ elite athletes had used banned supplements in the past year, commenting that “doping appears remarkably widespread among elite athletes”.

Oppressive

Under WADA’s current system, all athletes (even minors) need to be able to provide blood and urine samples at any given point in time, without notice. Athletes must continually provide their location, notifying WADA of their ‘whereabouts’. Whilst we understand the sentiment behind this Orwellian practice, we believe that athletes have a right to privacy and bodily autonomy. (Source: WADA’s ISTI Guidelines for Sample Collection.)

Ineffective

Further undermining WADA’s drug testing program is its ineffectiveness. A 2022 report commissioned by WADA and conducted by Prof. James Skinner of Loughborough University found that “anti-doping policies are not implemented consistently across nations”, as “the depth of policy implementation and compliance varies significantly between [WADA] Code signatories”. 

Jamaica’s failed drug-testing regime is a powerful case study for the inconsistent implementation of the Olympics’ WADA-compliance. Renee-Anne Shirley, formerly the executive director of the Jamaican Anti-Doping Commission (Jadco), disclosed in 2013 that “only a single out-of-competition test had been conducted by Jadco between March and July before the London Olympics”. (Source: The Independent.)

It may be of interest to note that Olympians competing for Jamaica have won 86 medals in track & field athletics, and that the current ‘natural’ world record for the 100 metre sprint was set by a member of the Jamaican Olympic team, with the WADA regulations enforced by Jadco. As the drug-testing program for members of the Jamaican Olympic team is significantly worse than the testing program enrolled by wealthier countries (like the United States and Australia), global competitions like the Olympics are inherently unfair.

It is time for the sports world to seriously reconsider its stance on performance enhancements.


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