On May 24, Las Vegas hosts the Enhanced Games, a competition that allows the use of FDA-approved drugs, breaking anti-doping rules. With 50 participants in swimming, sprinting, and weightlifting, it awards up to $500,000 per discipline and one million for records. Its organizers defend medical transparency, although they do not reveal individual protocols.
Medical supervision or science without control 🧪
The organizers will publish aggregated data on a government website, but hide individual protocols for privacy. Each athlete has a medical team that adjusts doses of approved drugs to maximize performance. The lack of individual transparency raises doubts about true supervision and the risk of side effects. The technology here is not new, it is just applied without sports restrictions.
The record no one will tell you about at the family dinner 🏊
Imagine your brother-in-law bragging about his personal best in swimming while you remind him that in the Enhanced Games, swimmers use pharmaceutical cocktails. The million-dollar prize for a world record is tempting, but the real reward could be a visit to the nephrologist. At least, if you ask about his regimen, they will tell you it is confidential. So everyone is happy, except the kidneys.