Billionaire Peter Thiel is planning to make one in every of Saturday Night time Stay‘s most outlandish Olympics sketches a actuality.
The PayPal co-founder has joined a gaggle of enterprise capitalists searching for to lift $300 million to placed on the first-ever Enhanced Video games, “a contemporary reinvention of the Olympic Video games” through which athletes will not be examined for medicine or different efficiency enhancers.
“When 44% of athletes already use efficiency enhancements, it’s time to safely have fun science,” states the group’s web site. “Welcome to the Enhanced Video games, the final word demonstration of what the human physique is able to.” The date and placement of the primary Enhanced Video games has but to be introduced, however athlete registration is anticipated to open in late 2024.
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Simply as professional wrestler Hulk Hogan recently drew comparisons to a famous scene from Idiocracy throughout the Republican Nationwide Conference, the Enhanced Video games will immediately remind Saturday Night time Stay followers of the present’s October 8, 1988 “All-Drug Olympics” sketch.
Phil Hartman appeared as Sergei Akmudov, a Russian weightlifter competing within the first-ever All-Drug Olympics. Commentator Kevin Nealon set the scene, noting that Akmudov had taken anabolic steroids, novacaine, Nyquil, Darvon and “some kind of fish paralyzer” previous to the occasion: “All of this, in fact, is completely authorized on the All-Drug Olympics,” he famous. “In truth, it is inspired.”
Whereas trying to triple the prevailing world file by lifting 1,500 kilos, Akmudov as a substitute suffers a ghastly and bloody destiny. “Oh, he is pulled his arms off! He is pulled his arms off!” Nealon narrates. “That is gotta be disappointing to the large Russian…. he most likely does not have that a lot ache proper now however I believe tomorrow he is actually gonna really feel that.”
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Whereas a real-life duplication of Akmudov’s accidents appears unlikely, four-time Olympic medalist and chief govt of the Australian Sports activities Fee Kieren Perkins referred to as the Enhanced Video games idea “laughable” and “borderline prison.” He additionally expressed fears that accidents may not be the worst consequence if the Enhanced Video games have been allowed to occur: “Somebody will die if we permit that kind of surroundings to proceed to foster and flourish.”
James Magnussen, who gained a silver medal within the 100 meter freestyle swimming occasion on the 2012 London Olympics, seemingly feels fairly in a different way. He has provided to come back out of retirement if the organizers put up $1 million for breaking the 50 meter freestyle file, promising: “I will juice to the gills and break it in six months.”
Watch the ‘All-Drug Olympics’ Sketch
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