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


The Enhanced Games, where athletes are allowed to take performance-enhancing drugs, will host its first event in May. One "enhanced" former Olympic swimmer has already broken the 50m freestyle record.

Athletes competing in the event will be allowed to take performance-enhancing drugs like testosterone and anabolic steroids that are usually banned from elite competition, provided they are legal, prescribed by a doctor, and taken at safe levels. At a glitzy press conference announcing the details of the first event, organizers also revealed that the Games had helped an “enhanced athlete” break two long-standing 50m freestyle world records in swimming. Other high-profile investors include Balaji Srinivisan, German biotech billionaire Christian Angermayer (also a cofounder of the Games), and 1789 Capital, Donald Trump Jr.’s investment firm, which bought in during a multimillion-dollar Series B round in February.

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