Dan Murphy
Las Vegas – A new company hoping to infuse unprecedented levels of scientific drugs, money and performance improvement in Olympic style sports says that it will organize its first official competition in May 2026 in Las Vegas.
The improved games announced on Wednesday the project to host in exactly its first annual competition in which athletes will be authorized, if not rooted, to use PEDs such as steroids, testosterone and growth hormone which are generally legal to have but prohibited in sport. The organizers say that they hope to remove the stigma of the use of these substances and promote more sure ways to push the limits of human performance.
Aron of Souza, the founder and president of the company, led the announcement on Wednesday as a burst of opening in order to create a “superhumanity”. He unveiled the grandiose ambitions of the event from the scene of a club on the strip of Las Vegas, accompanied by stroboscopic lights and homemade music in a presentation which was more confused towards a launch of technological startup product than a sporting event.
“We are here to advance humanity,” said Souza. “… The old rules did not simply retain the athletes, they retained humanity.”
The Souza Company offers substantial financial incentives to athletes who will probably have to abandon the future opportunities to compete in most other international sporting events. With a $ 500,000 handbag for each event ($ 250,000 in first place), improved matches will also provide appearance fees to athletes and bonuses to break records during the competition.
Enhanced Games has already signed his first $ 1 million check as a bonus for having broken a world record. The launch of Wednesday included an an hour documentary that showed that the Greek swimmer Kristian Gkolomeev establishing a new world record at 50 meters swimming for weeks after starting to train with Peds. Enhanced Games says that this event in Greensboro, North Carolina, was checked by the United States swimming officials. It was closed to the media and the result could not be checked independently.
Gkolomeev, 31, signed up for the race with improved matches in December, several months after participating in his fourth Olympic Games, and was one of the two swimmers who pursued a bonus of $ 1 million for having broken the world record as part of an effort to promote the new company. The former national champion of the NCAA finished fifth from the two previous 50 meter -free finals at the Olympic Games, missing a medal in Paris by 0.03 seconds.
In February, he timed for a time of 20.89 seconds in judgment, by ahead of the record time of 20.91 by César Cielo in 2009. In an interview with ESPN last week, Gkolomeev refused to say what specific drugs he used, citing concerns that others would try to reproduce his improvement battery without appropriate medical supervision.
“I really want to share it with everyone because it was practically nothing, but it’s not good for others to know because I don’t want to encourage anyone to do what I do without a doctor,” said Gkolomeev.
Gkolomeev said he was motivated to join improved games to reach his best potential and earn money after a long career in swimming.
“A successful year for improved matches for me is more than I could do in 10 careers,” he said.
Enhanced Games has received millions of dollars in initial funding from certain notable venture capital, notably the founder of Paypal, Peter Thiel, the passionate of psychedelics and the longevity Christian Angeryer and 1789 capital, an investment company directed in part by Donald Trump Jr.
Souza refused to provide exact figures for the quantity of the organization.
The company says it plans to earn money by selling direct performance amplifiers to consumers such as testosterone. A company official recently compared the model to Red Bull, who uses extreme sporting events to market his energy drinks.
Managers of the International Olympic Committee and the World Anti -Doping Agency criticized improved games as an reckless effect that could compromise the health of athletes and tarnish the spirit of sport.
Travis Tygart, head of the American anti -doping agency, described the new company “a dangerous clown program that takes advantage of the principle” in a press release published on the website of its organization.
Souza maintains that a competition that requires transparency on the substances that athletes use is safer and more equitable than many current leagues and events, which sometimes fight to make the police on the use of steroids in their sports.
The anti -doping rules are also rooted in an effort to ensure that the competitions are decided with natural talents and an individual realization rather than an arms race for which can buy better drugs, depending on the traditionalists. Souza and other improved games argue that the lines that these trace organizations are exceeded and arbitrary. Technology and nutrition already play a major role in sports and offer separate advantages to teams or nations that can afford to spend more on their athletes.
Company officials say that competition next May will not be a steroid boon. Improved game athletes will be allowed to take legal substances in the United States and prescribed by an approved doctor, the company said. Examples may include testosterone, growth hormone and certain types of anabolic steroids. Illicit drugs – cocaine, for example – will not be allowed.
The company officials say that a limited group of athletes will have all their medical care provided by improved games and will receive their PED as part of a clinical trial which is awaiting ethical approval. Others can apply to compete as an improved independently, and natural athletes who do not take a PED are also welcome.
Athletes will have to pass a medical screening before they are allowed to compete and must point out all the substances they use. However, the organization says that it does not provide for drug tests for competitors and has no black and white policy that would disqualify athletes who use substances of illegal or at high risk as long as they pass their medical screening.
The competition next May should present eight different swimming events in swimming (50 and 100 meters in freestyle and butterfly), track (sprint 100 meters and 100/110 meters obstacles) and weightlifting (Snatch, Clean and Shaf) on a tailor -made competition floor at Resorts World on the Las Vegas band. The company initially announced its intention to include gymnastics and a certain form of combat sports, but they will no longer be part of the first version of the games.
