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I went to the so-called ‘steroid Olympics,’ to understand why Silicon Valley is obsessed with peptides

The Enhanced Games — a singular sporting competition where a majority of the athletes were on performance enhancing drugs — may herald a new business model that the tech industry is ready to embrace.

I am sitting in the sweltering Nevada heat watching a man struggle to lift a bar over his head. If the man manages to do it, he will win $250,000.
The man is Boady Santavy — a two-time Olympic weight-lifting contestant from Canada — and he has muscle… [17282 chars]

Source: TechCrunch | Published: 2026-05-30T00:39:13Z

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