Fear and self-doping in Las Vegas: Inside the first Enhanced Games

I attended the inaugural Enhanced Games at Resorts World in Las Vegas, a three-sport event set up by a group of Silicon Valley techno-libertarians to test how far athletic performance can be pushed when competitors use powerful performance-enhancing drugs. The show had the trappings of traditional sport—referees, Olympic-standard tracks, pools, and weights—but the 42 athletes, many retired Olympians, reportedly followed regimens of anabolic steroids, stimulants, human-growth-hormone, testosterone and other substances banned by the World Anti-Doping Agency and the IOC.

Enhanced, which also sells many of these supplements, says 90% of athletes use at least one drug; most competitors declined to detail their protocols. The event’s founders and backers include Christian Angermayer, who expected multiple world records and said he uses tesamorelin, GLP-1s and TRT, alongside investors such as Peter Thiel and Donald Trump Jr., and executives Aron D’Souza and Maximilian Martin.

United States, Las Vegas

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