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SAT · 2026-05-23 · 23:48 GMTBRIEF NSR-2026-0524-78746
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It's like the Olympics - except steroids are allowed

The first Enhanced Games are being held this weekend in Las Vegas, featuring athletes and significant financial backing, but also considerable controversy. Organizers state the event aims to explore the boundaries of human performance, while critics, particularly within the Olympic movement, view it as a violation of sport's core principles.

BBC News - WorldFiled 2026-05-23 · 23:48 GMTLean · CenterRead · 1 min
It's like the Olympics - except steroids are allowed
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The first Enhanced Games are being held this weekend in Las Vegas, featuring athletes and significant financial backing, but also considerable controversy. Organizers state the event aims to explore the boundaries of human performance, while critics, particularly within the Olympic movement, view it as a violation of sport's core principles. Travis Tygart, CEO of the US Anti Doping Agency, argues that the solution to doping issues in the Olympics is reform, not the legalization of performance-enhancing drugs, emphasizing the need for athletes to compete on a level playing field. Enhanced Games organizers, however, contend they are openly addressing what they perceive as widespread, clandestine doping among athletes.

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The answer to Olympic anti-doping failures is reforming the system, not doping.

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US sprinter Fred Kerley is among those involved in the Enhanced Games.

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Critics, especially in the Olympic movement, dismiss Enhanced as an affront to the spirit of sport.

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Enhanced claims it is bringing out into the open that many athletes cheat and take performance-enhancing drugs in the shadows.

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Enhanced games claim to push the limits of human performance.

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Event organisers claim Enhanced will push the limits of human performance while critics, especially in the Olympic movement, dismiss it as an affront to the spirit and founding principles of competitive sport.'We're being up front and honest'"You don't have to be pressured or use drugs in order to be the best," says Travis Tygart, CEO of the US Anti Doping Agency, USADA. He tells the BBC that while there are clear failures with the Olympics' anti-doping protocols, the answer is reforming the system, not to dope.Athletes, he says, need to be assured the Olympics are clean and cheats will not be tolerated."We don't want kids to have to say, 'in order to win an Olympic medal, when I'm 18 or 20 years old, I have to inject myself every day in the rear end with a potentially dangerous drug.'"But Enhanced, the company behind the games, claims it is bringing out into the open what it says is an undercurrent of many athletes cheat and take performance-enhancing drugs in the shadows.AFP/Getty ImagesUS sprinter Fred Kerley is among those involved in the Enhanced Games
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