The Enhanced Games will be held in Las Vegas on Memorial Day weekend with 42 athletes competing in swimming, weightlifting, and running. The event permits performance enhancement drugs, which are banned in domestic and international competitions such as the Olympics. The competition is organized by Enhanced, a company focused on direct-to-consumer longevity medicine that recently went public and has major investors including Donald Trump Jr.’s investment firm and Peter Thiel. The event will be held in a custom-built arena for about 2,500 invite-only spectators and has faced criticism from anti-doping organizations. Enhanced and non-enhanced athletes will compete to break records with $25 million in total athlete compensation. Drug use is limited to substances approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, though specific regimens are not publicly detailed.
"Those who are using substances are only allowed to use those approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). While the organizers are not releasing specific information on the drug regimen of athletes using performance-enhancement substa"
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