Inside the Enhanced Games, Where Athletes Compete on Steroids. And Growth Hormones. And Adderall.
I stop him, and clarify: “The same people? The athletes?” “Probably. Yeah.” “Are you sure?” He goes on to describe, not the athletes, but people he knows personally who are “dosing themselves with experimental gene therapies,” including one that “allowed [a former colleague] to gain 3 kilos in his ass because that’s the site he injected.” When we get back to the athletes he says, “you have your nutrition, your standard supplements, then the substances the IOC prohibits. And then there’s the stuff that’s new and emerging—that even the Olympic Committee doesn’t know about and has no means of testing for. That’s what we’re really talking about.” He leans in. “There are two things the very wealthy have been trying to escape. One is taxes—they’ve already done that. The next is death. Many of the technologies being used in the Enhanced Games are advents of extremely wealthy people spending enormous sums in strange clinics on therapies for themselves. The Enhanced Games is just the demonstration—the implementation—of what they’ve already done to their own bodies.” Roth …
