Overview
- The Enhanced Games, which will take place on Sunday May 24, will host roughly 40–50 invited athletes in swimming, 100m sprints and weightlifting inside a purpose‑built venue at Resorts World Las Vegas.
- Organisers say competitors may use substances that are legal in the United States and prescribed by doctors, but they will not publish individual treatment protocols and plan only aggregate reporting of drug use.
- Major sports bodies including the World Anti‑Doping Agency and the International Olympic Committee have condemned the event and warned that participants risk bans and that any records will not be recognised by mainstream federations.
- The event offers large cash incentives, with reported $250,000 prizes for event winners, $1 million bonuses for certain record-breaking performances and a potential $25 million total athlete compensation.
- Critics and medical experts say combining anabolic steroids, growth hormone and peptides carries serious short‑ and long‑term risks, and they warn the Games’ business model of prize money and product sales could drive escalating and unsafe drug use in sport.