We are approaching the border of the absurd. This is where Aaron D’Souza leads us.
Aaron D’Souza is Australian and lives in London, and for months he has been promoting the Enhanced Games (in a literal translation, it would be something like Enhanced Games), a kind of Olympic surrogate in the freestyle version: if the Enhanced Games were held , there would be no anti-doping controls.
No date or venue has been set for the Enhanced Games, but D’Souza assures that they could take place at the end of 2024, and that the extra marks registered in the competition “would overturn all the world records, because they would unlock the limits of human potential”.
(The event aims to bring together athletes, swimmers, weightlifters, gymnasts and wrestlers, five disciplines in total, some of the most stigmatized, cyclists apart.)
“Through the Enhanced Games we would put an end to this oppressive cycle of Olympism: at each Olympic edition, another cohort of brave athletes set new world records only to later see their best marks annulled, their careers suspended and their names trampled in the mud”, says the website of the Enhanced Games (Enhanced.org).
Can you imagine a doped sprinter approaching the 9 second barrier in the 100 meters?
Or a gymnast flying up to caress the roof of the pavilion?
Fantastic examples like Ben Johnson, Lance Armstrong or Diego Armando Maradona (Maradona in life, of course) would be very welcome, and certainly complimented, at the Enhanced Games.
They wouldn’t be stinkers here.
They would be gods.
– Don’t you think it would be a fabulous show for television? – explained Aaron D’Souza to the Associated Press.
And he is not without reason, at least in part.
In professional wrestling in the United States, we might as well put a blindfold on our eyes and think that the behemoths in the ring really hit each other, because that’s why they’re superheroes, and that’s why they stay up even when they’re dislocated a shoulder, had a piece of their ear ripped off or had their jaw broken.
Life is a dream.
The fact is that the idea is a trap and a lie, and the Enhanced Games would enshrine that terrorist who showed himself ready to strap a bomb to his chest to explode in an airport: applause for the one who bet to die killing.
And let’s see how you later tell the boy not to make you any more bottles.
