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New York Times
23 Nov 2024
Calum Marsh


NextImg:Aron D’Souza’s Enhanced Games May Happen. Should They?

On a recent morning this fall, Aron D’Souza was at home in London expecting a long-anticipated delivery: a vintage set of the “Great Books of the Western World,” a collection with over 50 volumes of philosophy, history and literature published in the 1950s by Encyclopaedia Britannica, including “Faust,” Freud’s “On Narcissism” and “The Hippocratic Oath.”

“It’s like 200 kilos’ worth of books,” Mr. D’Souza said in a video call. “This is now my task over the next decade, to read all of these books.”

“The Hippocratic Oath,” which is a guide to ethical standards in medicine, should be an interesting one for Mr. D’Souza. In the summer of 2023, Mr. D’Souza shocked the sports world with an announcement that he was creating a new event called the Enhanced Games, which he said would be a far-ranging athletic competition seeking to challenge the Olympics by allowing participants to use a variety of banned substances, including performance-enhancing drugs.

Reactions after the announcement were overwhelmingly negative: Critics, including representatives from antidoping agencies and sports commissions, called the concept a “clown show” and said it was “dangerous and irresponsible,” while the International Olympic Committee told multiple news outlets that the Enhanced Games did not “merit any comment.”

Since then, the furor over the Games has largely settled down, even if the core question about whether they should exist still remains. It’s now up to Mr. D’Souza and his team to actually plan them.

ImageA man in a zip-up fleece, light blue shirt and tan pants sitting on a staircase.
Aron D’Souza, a venture capitalist, was previously known for playing a critical role in Hulk Hogan’s lawsuit against Gawker. He is now running the Enhanced Games.Credit...Gabriella Demczuk for The New York Times

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