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The Guardian - US
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Arwa Mahdawi

For all his obsession with innovation, Peter Thiel has some stone-age views

‘With people like him at the helm, is it any wonder social media has such a big misogyny and racism problem?’
‘With people like him at the helm, is it any wonder social media has such a big misogyny and racism problem?’ Photograph: John Lamparski/Getty Images

Get pumped for the Steroid Olympics

Have you ever dreamed up a completely deranged business idea but lacked the cash to execute it? Peter Thiel, the secretive tech billionaire who co-founded Paypal, doesn’t have that problem. He, along with a group of other venture capitalists, is currently deploying part of his vast fortune to help bankroll a pro-drugs version of the Olympics called the Enhanced Games. It’s exactly what it sounds like: a sporting competition in which participants are encouraged to take as many performance-enhancing substances as they can get their steroid-enlarged hands on. All in the name of science and innovation, naturally.

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