US Edition‘Clowns juggling knives’: Clean swimmers face bans if they compete at Enhanced Games
- The Enhanced Games will launch in Las Vegas in May 2026, allowing athletes using performance-enhancing drugs to compete in sports like swimming and athletics.
- Dr Aron D'Souza founded the games to challenge traditional anti-doping efforts, arguing doping is widespread and current measures drive secretive, unsafe drug use.
- Former Olympian Kristian Gkolomeev, now competing under the Enhanced Games' doping guidelines, has shattered a longstanding swimming record and stands to receive payouts reaching half a million dollars for each event, with additional financial incentives possible.
- The World Anti-Doping Agency and USA Swimming warn athletes they risk bans and reputational harm if involved, with USA Swimming urging caution amid growing athlete connections to the games.
- The Enhanced Games' emergence raises ethical and legal questions about doping, athlete health, and the future of clean sport, as organizations emphasize protecting sport integrity.
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Sporting competition with openly doped athletes set to launch in 2026
For decades, 'drugs' has been a dirty word in sport, but a new competition is attempting to change that. The 'Enhanced Games' is set to launch in Las Vegas next year, with competitors openly doped. World sporting bodies say the concept is dangerous and risks athletes' health.
Sydney Morning Herald
The Age‘Clowns juggling knives’: Clean swimmers face bans if they compete at Enhanced Games
The Enhanced Games intend to invite clean athletes to compete alongside dopers in Las Vegas next year. There could be serious repercussions for Olympians.
The Enhanced Games sporting experiment will prove short-lived
The Enhanced Games aims to shake up sport by allowing performance enhancing substances, but Ed Warner argues the concept will be short-lived. Man dives into a pool wearing a full racing bodysuit. Swims a single length of front crawl. Alone. Is rewarded with $1m for breaking the world record. Could this be the dullest clip of sporting action in recent memory, perhaps ever? Furthermore, his feat isn’t either an official world record or at all spor…
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