The Enhanced Video games—a sort of Olympics for athletes who’re doping—at this time introduced the date and venue for its first competitors: Could 21-24, 2026, at Resorts World Las Vegas.
Athletes competing within the occasion can be allowed to take performance-enhancing medication like testosterone and anabolic steroids which are normally banned from elite competitors, offered they’re authorized, prescribed by a physician, and brought at protected ranges.
The inaugural Enhanced Video games may have three predominant sports activities: swimming (50m and 100m freestyle, and 50m and 100m butterfly), observe (100m dash, 110m/100m hurdles, and 60m sprint), and weightlifting (snatch, clear and jerk). Reasonably than splitting women and men into completely different classes, athletes can be categorized based mostly on their chromosomes: There can be an XX and an XY class for every occasion.
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There can be as much as $500,000 in prize cash on provide for every occasion, with $250,000 for the winner, and a bonus of $1,000,000 for anybody who breaks the 100m dash of the 50m freestyle world file. (Different world file breakers will get a bonus of $250,000.) At a glitzy press convention asserting the small print of the primary occasion, organizers additionally revealed that the Video games had helped an “enhanced athlete” break two long-standing 50m freestyle world information in swimming.
Kristian Gkolomeev, a 31-year-old Greek-Bulgarian swimmer who got here fifth within the 50m freestyle on the Olympic Video games in Paris, began his enhancement program in early February. Towards the top of that month, at a pool in Greensboro, North Carolina, he broke César Cielo’s 50-meter freestyle world file of 20.91 seconds, which had stood for 16 years. Gkolomeev swam 0.02 seconds quicker. In April, he broke Caeleb Dressel’s 2019 so-called textile world file—completed with out carrying a pace go well with—of 21.04 seconds. He swam 0.01 seconds quicker.
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