>>50437716NTA but
>I've always been a big supporter of a (currently hypothetical) version of the Olympics where the athletes in it just take as many PEDs as their bodies can sustain without breaking, and see how far they can push their bodies without experiencing freedom from this mortal coil.Fun fact. A good deal of the engine engineering knowledge not derived from aerospace used to (and to a much lesser degree still does) come from racing. Back in the 70s-80s people used to be allowed to synthesize their own fuels on a team by team basis. They used to just dial up random universities and go "Hey can you brew us some PROPER gofast juice" and in consequence got these really weird-ass carbon compounds that sometimes could blow a lab to high heaven with a thimble worth of material. Really advanced the way humanity understood engines, fuel and the practical mechanics at play there and set the pace for a lot of subsequent inventions.
...and then it was all shut down because muh safety concerns and the science stagnated ever since.
Coolness factor aside, Formula 1 Olympics would likely teach us an uncountable amount of things about how the human body really works, how to enhance it, what the limits are and how to ensure we can heal it when over-stressed in an environment that'd demand the absolute peak of focus, skill and performance out of both athletes and their maintenance crews.
Same applies to mental sports like chess or target shooting. Have performers sponsored by various big and small pharma companies and be amazed how quickly our understanding of how to push the human mind into transcendent performance through chemistry.
