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The Enhanced Games, a Las Vegas-Based Athletic Festival Where the Cheaters Can Cheat

  • The Enhanced Games, a new athletic festival allowing performance-enhancing drug use, will debut May 21-24, 2026, at Resorts World Las Vegas.
  • The event arose as a challenge to the international anti-doping system, which some consider ineffective amid multiple doping scandals since 2023.
  • Athletes will compete in swimming, track and field, and weightlifting with purses up to $500,000 and bonuses starting at $250,000 for records.
  • Founder Aron D'Souza emphasizes athlete safety via independent medical commissions and personalized drug monitoring, while critics like WADA condemn the event as cheating.
  • The Enhanced Games plans to build a permanent Las Vegas training facility and aims to disrupt traditional sports by promoting science and performance advancement.
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Enhanced Games – that’s the name of a new sporting event that will take place next year. But unlike other competitions, the use of performance-enhancing drugs will be allowed. – It’s more like a clown show than real sport, says Travis Tygart, head of the US anti-doping organization USADA to The Guardian.

·Stockholm, Sweden
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The Dopaje Games are already here. The announcement made this week has burst the seams of traditional sport and has shaken the consciences of olympism. They arrive dressed in science and technology, of futurism. And they do not hide that they will use doping substances , forbidden, full of side effects for health. But they arrive with arrogance, with a certain pride of those who sell the end of artificial limits, of unfair competition, unequal. …

·Spain
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A committee has launched sports competitions where doping is officially allowed.

·Zürich, Switzerland
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According to its organizers, this very controversial competition of a brand new genre will take place in May 2026, in the United States.

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Winnipeg Free Press broke the news in Winnipeg, Canada on Wednesday, May 21, 2025.
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