The Enhanced Video games—a sort of Olympics for athletes who’re doping—right this moment introduced the date and venue for its first competitors: Could 21-24, 2026, at Resorts World Las Vegas.
Athletes competing within the occasion shall be allowed to take performance-enhancing medication like testosterone and anabolic steroids which are normally banned from elite competitors, supplied they’re authorized, prescribed by a physician, and brought at protected ranges.
The inaugural Enhanced Video games can 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). Fairly than splitting women and men into totally different classes, athletes shall be categorized primarily based on their chromosomes: There shall be an XX and an XY class for every occasion.
There shall 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 report. (Different world report breakers will get a bonus of $250,000.) At a glitzy press convention saying the main points 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 report of 20.91 seconds, which had stood for 16 years. Gkolomeev swam 0.02 seconds sooner. In April, he broke Caeleb Dressel’s 2019 so-called textile world report—accomplished with out sporting a pace go well with—of 21.04 seconds. He swam 0.01 seconds sooner.
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