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 World Anti-Doping Agency called the concept “dangerous and irresponsible,” and World Athletics president Lord Coe said flatly, “No one within athletics takes the Enhanced Games seriously.” World Aquatics went further, banning any athlete, coach, or official who participates from its own sanctioned competitions.

The first Enhanced Games were a letdown

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