While the sports industry and the Olympics have worked hard to purge performance-enhancing drugs, a new organization backed by tech billionaire Peter Thiel wants to let athletes dope.

The Enhances Games is the creation of lawyer Aron D’Souza, known for leading Peter Thiel’s lawsuit against Gawker Media in 2013.

“We want to end the oppression of science in sports and let human potential reach its maximum,” D’Souza told Decrypt in an interview. “Science has been used all throughout our society to advance our skill, productivity, and capabilities, but it has been excluded from sports by the International Olympic Committee. So, let’s see what humanity is truly capable of.”

Others joining Thiel in backing the Enhanced Games include Apeiron Investment Group founder Christian Angermayer and former chief technology officer of cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase, Balaji Srinivasan.

“We are very focused on pharmacological enhancements now,” D’Souza said. “Whether that be steroids, testosterone, or other supplementation or therapeutic regimes we want to allow a

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