The idea was simple: What if performance-enhancing drugs were allowed at the Olympics?

From 2023 to 2025, a group of CEOs, entrepreneurs, and investors secured equity capital to fund this concept— what would become the “Enhanced Games.” The idea was to test the limits of human athletic performances and give free bodily autonomy to the athletes. While athletes would not be required to use any PEDs to compete, the competition would not follow the rules of the World Anti-Doping Agency, which regulates drug use across hundreds of different international sporting leagues.

Though medical professionals criticized the event and warned of dangerous side effects from PEDs, it’s easy to see the appeal of the idea: what if the strong and fastest athletes in the world were even better?

The first Enhanced Games took place in May 2026, to mostly lackluster results

The organizers of the event predicted that multiple world records would be shattered across events in swimming, weightlifting, sprinting, and more during the Games’ inaugural competition in Las Vegas.........

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