Pro-doping Enhanced Games to debut in Las Vegas with Trump Jr backing

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Source: The Guardian

A controversial new Olympics-style sporting event where athletes will be permitted – and even encouraged – to use performance-enhancing drugs is set to debut in Las Vegas next May, organizers announced on Wednesday.

The inaugural Enhanced Games will take place 21–24 May 2026 at Resorts World on the Las Vegas Strip. Over four days, competitors will race, lift and swim with full access to drugs and therapies banned in virtually every other elite athletic setting.

Billed as a revolution in sport and science, the event aims to embrace what organizers call “superhumanity” – a future where pharmaceutical and technological enhancement is normalized in elite competition. But while promoters cast it as a bold break from the past, critics are already raising alarms about safety, fairness and the fundamental integrity of sport.

“We are creating a new category of human excellence,” the Enhanced Games’ promotional materials declare. “A world where performance-enhancing drugs are used safely, openly, and under medical supervision.”

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/may/21/enhanced-games-las-vegas-dates-trump-jr-thiel

[Walleye]

1. Don Junior is a Russian, they love doping athletes

[Irish_Dem]

2. It is called cheating.

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4. And leave it to a tRump to glorify and monetize cheating

[Irish_Dem]

11. Creating a nation of psychopaths.

[Basso8vb]

3. This was funny as a SNL skit nearly 40 years ago.

But this is completely fucking stupid.

[kimbutgar]

5. What's going to happen when one of these fighters dies as a result as an out of control opponent?

I see many fighters end up dying from this! How barbaric !

[taxi]

14. Agreed. It isn't a question of if, it's how quickly it will happen.

And it wouldn't be surprising if the sports books capitalize on it. Bets on who. Bets on when. Bets on how.
Then, it is not only barbaric, but anyone who supports it with betting like this are complicit and should be charged for contributing to that death.

[Erda]

6. This is along the lines of

Cock fighting or Dog fighting to the death, or racing a drugged horse for the win, only to have the horse destroyed at the end. Don, Jr. and associates are returning to the Roman Empire and the lions' den.

All to entertain the privileged.

I pity the athletes because those drugs will have detrimental, long-term side-effects.

Disgusting

[AKwannabe]

7. I wouldn't call them athletes

And I wouldn’t pity them.

They will be zombies enhanced by roids and used like cocks and dogs and…

Idiocracy!! tRump Idiocracy!

[PSPS]

10. Not "to entertain the privileged" but, rather "to entertain the sadists"

Break out the 'roids!

[ToxMarz]

8. Will that include Gender Affirming Hormone Therapy

[travelingthrulife]

9. Are these people incapable of decency?

[Aristus]

12. They should call it the Palio.

A monumentally corrupt, sleazy horse race in Siena, Italy, in which the jockeys are bribed, the horses are doped, and the whole thing is a spectacle in service to what is little more than a semi-religious gang war in Siena's insular little neighborhoods.

[Brainfodder]

13. An event so likely cancelled?

Whose going to show for this?

[GenThePerservering]

15. This says more about that mouth-breathing cuck Dumb Jr

than it does about sport. Still struggling and trying to be 'manly' so that his daddy will love him, so he stages this farce.

I come from a competitive endurance sports background. No doping is safe. Even swallowing down heavy doses of OTC anti-inflammatories over a long term to keep going is not safe. Anabolic steroids and their kin are never safe, and they affect the mind as well as the body.

They'll get a lot of fools who can't make it in sport the honest way and have a pickled event with a lot of fake records. There will be more talk about what dope you're taking than athletic excellence. There will be a few deaths, and this "event" will fold like a cheap lawn chair.

[SKKY]

16. There's something very "Hitleresque" about this...

[MuseRider]

17. There sure is.

JFC, it is almost time to build a little hidey hole to finish out my pitiful life before this becomes a thing that gets into the hands of anyone who wants it. Bet it does not take long. Them, "Who knew? We thought it was under control."

[Deminpenn]

18. Athletes who dope with steroids, HGH, etc

are not generally going to live long lives.