The Enhanced Games Has a Date, a Host City, and a Drug-Fueled World Record

[demmiblue]

The Enhanced Games, where athletes are allowed to take performance-enhancing drugs, will host its first event in May. One “enhanced” former Olympic swimmer has already broken the 50-meter freestyle record.

The Enhanced Games—a kind of Olympics for athletes who are doping—today announced the date and venue for its first competition: May 21-24, 2026, at Resorts World Las Vegas.

Athletes competing in the event will be allowed to take performance-enhancing drugs like testosterone and anabolic steroids that are usually banned from elite competition, provided they are legal, prescribed by a doctor, and taken at safe levels.

The inaugural Enhanced Games will have three main sports: swimming (50m and 100m freestyle, and 50m and 100m butterfly), track (100m sprint, 110m/100m hurdles, and 60m dash), and weightlifting (snatch, clean and jerk). Rather than splitting men and women into different categories, athletes will be categorized based on their chromosomes: There will be an XX and an XY category for each event.

Gkolomeev swam the 50-meter freestyle in 20.89 seconds at a pool in North Carolina, breaking a 16-year-old record.

https://www.wired.com/story/the-enhanced-games-has-a-date-a-host-city-and-a-drug-fuelled-world-record/

[3catwoman3]

1. What a stupid idea.

[Walleye]

2. Don Junior is a Russian at heart. The Russians love doping athletes.

[NotASurfer]

3. I remember that skit on SNL

Parody isn't dead, but its disconcerting every time it seems to advise reality