Guess What’s Not Outlawed in Peter Thiel and Don Jr.’s New Olympics?

At the Enhanced Games, which are scheduled for next May in Las Vegas, athletes are urged to take as many performance-enhancing drugs as their mortal flesh can bear. The founders, as WIRED reported in June, believe their experiment aligns closely with RFK Jr.’s MAHA initiative.

But what can we humans bear? This is an open question. Performance-enhancing drugs, which are mostly anabolic-androgenic steroids, have been linked to a gruesome array of disorders: cardiovascular, psychiatric, metabolic, endocrinologic, neurologic, infectious, hepatic, renal, and musculoskeletal. Also, of course, death. A recent study of 1,189 young Danish men who had been sanctioned for doping revealed that 33 of them died after 11 years.

No matter. D’Souza, Thiel, and Don Jr. are betting that what does not kill their steroid-swollen guinea pigs will make them stronger. And faster. The doped athletes will compete in swimming, track, and weightlifting. Throughout, the athletes’ bodies will be subject to scientific study. Until or unless their organs burst (can the enhanced autopsy business be next?), they’ll be Übermenschen.