The Enhanced Games Has a Date, a Host City, and a Drug-Fueled World Record

The Enhanced Games—a benignant of Olympics for athletes who are doping—today announced nan day and venue for its first competition: May 21-24, 2026, astatine Resorts World Las Vegas.

Athletes competing successful nan arena will beryllium allowed to return performance-enhancing narcotics for illustration testosterone and anabolic steroids that are usually banned from elite competition, provided they are legal, prescribed by a doctor, and taken astatine safe levels.

The inaugural Enhanced Games will person 3 main sports: swimming (50m and 100m freestyle, and 50m and 100m butterfly), way (100m sprint, 110m/100m hurdles, and 60m dash), and weightlifting (snatch, cleanable and jerk). Rather than splitting men and women into different categories, athletes will beryllium categorized based connected their chromosomes: There will beryllium an XX and an XY class for each event.

There will beryllium up to $500,000 successful prize money connected connection for each event, pinch $250,000 for nan winner, and a prize of $1,000,000 for anyone who breaks nan 100m sprint aliases nan 50m freestyle world record. (Other world grounds breakers will get a prize of $250,000.) At a glitzy property convention announcing nan specifications of nan first event, organizers besides revealed that nan Games had helped an “enhanced athlete” break 2 long-standing 50m freestyle world records successful swimming.

Kristian Gkolomeev, a 31-year-old Greek-Bulgarian swimmer who came 5th successful nan 50m freestyle astatine nan Olympic Games successful Paris, started his enhancement programme successful early February. Toward nan extremity of that month, astatine a excavation successful Greensboro, North Carolina, he collapsed César Cielo’s 50-meter freestyle world grounds of 20.91 seconds, which had stood for 16 years. Gkolomeev swam 0.02 seconds faster. In April, he collapsed Caeleb Dressel’s 2019 alleged textile world record—done without wearing a velocity suit—of 21.04 seconds. He swam 0.01 seconds faster.