What would you be willing to put in your body?
This newsletter entry explores the recent Enhanced Games, an athletic competition that permits the use of performance-enhancing drugs. The author examines the ethical and physical implications of human optimization through substances.
Why it matters
It raises important questions about the future of sports, human biology, and the societal pressure to use technology or substances for performance gains.
The Enhanced Games last weekend featured athletes who took performance-enhancing drugs. This is Optimizer , a weekly newsletter sent from Verge senior reviewer Victoria Song that dissects and discusses the latest gizmos and potions that swear they're going to change your life. Opt in for Optimizer here . At this time last week, I was getting ready to ask people what drugs they were on. I was waiting in a conference room at the Hilton Resorts World Las Vegas. In my hands was a sheet detailing the schedule of the roughly 40 elite athletes participating in the Enhanced Games - an athletic event where using legal performance-enhancing drugs was the name of the game. Soon enough, there would be a media scrum where the press could go … Read the full story at The Verge.
The piece is framed as an investigative inquiry into a controversial topic, maintaining a neutral, observational tone.
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