Proudly steroid-fueled athletes to compete in Enhanced Games on Sunday to dismay of world anti-doping groups

Enhanced Games are scheduled to take place at Resorts World Las Vegas with 42 athletes competing in 100-meter sprint, swimming, and weightlifting. The event is funded by investors including Peter Thiel and offers a $25 million purse plus $1 million bonuses for world records. Enhanced released drug-use rates for 36 athletes, citing a clinical study listed on Clinicaltrials.gov. Two athletes in the study and two athletes not in the study are competing without PEDs, resulting in 90.5% of athletes using performance-enhancing drugs. Reported substances fall into categories including testosterone esters, anabolic agents, peptides and growth factors, metabolic modulators, and stimulants, with high usage rates for testosterone, human growth hormone, stimulants, metabolic modulators, EPO, and anabolic steroids. The International Olympic Committee and WADA oppose the event, and efforts to persuade U.S. anti-doping authorities or Congress to stop it have failed.

"Enhanced made public Wednesday the drug-use rates of 36 of the athletes scheduled to compete, announcing that its clinical study is listed on Clinicaltrials.gov. Two of the 36 included in the study and two of the six not included in the study are competing without PEDs, meaning 90.5% of the athletes are juiced."

"Athletes took substances in five approved categories, including testosterone esters, anabolic agents, peptides and growth factors, metabolic modulators and stimulants. Enhanced said all of the substances complied with U.S. Food and Drug Administration regulations. Enhanced said 90.5% of the tested athletes used testosterone or testosterone esters, 79% used human growth hormone, 62% used stimulants, 50% used metabolic modulators, 41% used EPO and 29% used an anabolic steroid agent."

"Funded by investors including Thiel, the games will be lucrative for the athletes, with a total purse of $25 million and bonuses of $1 million for anyone who sets a world record. On Sunday, the games will become a reality, with 42 mostly juiced athletes attempting to break records in 100-meter sprint, swimming and weightlifting competitions at Resorts World Las Vegas."

"“As the 2028 Olympic Games in Los Angeles approach, we cannot allow what should be a celebration of honest sporting endeavor to be overshadowed by this cynical attempt to undermine clean sport,” Banka said. “We will urge the U.S. aut"

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