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Scientists warn Enhanced Games athletes of heart attack risks and having libidos ‘killed off’

Reproductive function and libido risk being ‘killed off’, researchers say, as they warn that organisers’ safety claims are ‘incorrect and misleading’

The Guardian - UK · May 22, 2025

Athletes warn against potential health risks of ‘dangerous, unethical’ Enhanced Games

Sport Integrity Australia takes aim at event planned for May 2026 as Australian body calls on clean athletes to resist the lure of prize money

The Guardian - AU · May 22, 2025

Greek swimmer's big-money bonus for drug-assisted time

Greek swimmer Kristian Gkolomeev, with the help of performance enhancing drugs, has bettered the 50m freestyle world record and signed up for Enhanced Games.

AAP · May 21, 2025

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Pro-doping Enhanced Games to debut in Las Vegas with Trump Jr backing

A controversial new Olympics-style sporting event where athletes will be permitted to use drugs is set to debut in Las Vegas next year

The Guardian - US · May 21, 2025

No regrets about drug-taking: Aussie swimmer Magnussen

Australian swimmer James Magnussen says he has no regrets at signing up for Enhanced Games after completing his first course of performance enhancing drugs.

AAP · May 20, 2025

Australia a fruitful realm for Enhanced Games athletes

Enhanced Games' president says Australia is a "fruitful realm" for athletes potentially joining James Magnussen in competing at the event with no drug testing.

AAP · Feb 14, 2025

'I'm on a mission to build a new superhumanity': Founder of the enhanced games on the future of dope-legal racing

The Enhanced Games are an alternative Olympics where doping will be encouraged. Chris Marshall-Bell grills the founder on the risks

Cycling Weekly · Jan 11, 2025

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Celebrity boxing matches and ‘doping-legal Olympics’: the increasingly blurred line between sports and entertainment

We like to think that sports are fixed and immutable, but like anything else, they are a product of their time. Just look at the Olympic Games, where events like motorboating, tug-of-war and obstacle course swimming came and went during the 1900s. More recently, breakdancing appeared in last year’s Paris…

The Conversation · Jan 2, 2025

Brave New World podcast: Christian Angermayer and James Magnussen on why the Enhanced Games are a game changer for sports

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Evening Standard · Jul 25, 2024

Enhanced Games: meet the swimmer who thinks athletes should be allowed to dope

A new sports competition plans to encourage athletes to use performance enhancing drugs. William Hosie chats with the Enhanced Games poster boy, ex-top swimmer James Magnusen

Evening Standard · Jul 25, 2024

German billionaire behind Enhanced Games is dinosaur egg-collecting film producer

Christian Angermayer is a psychedelics mogul who thinks the world is ready for an Olympic-style games featuring juiced-up athletes.

Fortune · Jul 13, 2024

'Extremely Dangerous': Health Experts Slam Doping-friendly Enhanced Games

Athletes at the Paris Olympics later this month will be tested for performance-enhancing drugs, but at a competition plotting to rival the Games, doping will be the point.

International Business Times · Jul 9, 2024

‘Imagine if a 60-year-old broke Usain Bolt’s record’: the story behind the Enhanced Games, the Olympics where everyone dopes

It’s got billionaires, world champions and director Ridley Scott’s company on board. But would an athletics competition where taking drugs is encouraged put the honesty back in sport – or cause rifts, risks and addictions?

The Guardian - UK · Jun 29, 2024

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Explore the controversy surrounding the Enhanced Games, where ethics, rewards, and integrity in sports collide.

‘I want to see 60-year-olds breaking world records’: Welcome to the Olympics with NO drug testing

Seb Coe says ‘it’s a joke, unfair, and unsafe’. The head of US anti-doping calls it ‘a dangerous clown show’. Lawrence Ostlere talks to Dr Aron D’Souza, the Australian lawyer who wants to launch the Enhanced Games, a controversial Olympic-style mega-event in which doping is not just allowed but actively…

The Independent UK · Jun 1, 2024

Enhanced games could exploit young athletes says sport medicine federation

The Enhanced Games would allow athletes to use banned substances to boost athletic abilities

International Business Times · May 5, 2024

Enhanced Games Chief Says '50 To 100' Paris Olympians Ready To Sign Up

Between 50 and 100 athletes set to compete at the Paris Olympics are "in the sign-up process" for the inaugural Enhanced Games, where doping will be allowed, the event's chief claims.

AAP · Apr 17, 2024

No room for error in Enhanced Games: Magnussen

Australian swimmer James Magnussen says there's no room for error in his drug-taking program designed to make him the fastest swimmer ever.

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The Guardian - UK · Apr 12, 2024

On your marks, get set, dope! Welcome to the Enhanced Games – the sporting event no one wants

Athletes paid $1m to take enough performance-enhancing drugs to win records? Truly we get the TV sports we deserve, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

The Guardian - UK · Apr 11, 2024

‘It’s a joke’: Enhanced Games swimmer should face life ban, says aquatics chief

Brent Nowicki said ‘You cross that bridge, you don’t come back’ after hearing James Magnussen’s plans to dope to break world record at Enhanced Games

Rob Mcelhenney To Produce Documentary On Controversial Enhanced Games Event

Rob McElhenney to produce a documentary on the controversial Enhanced Games competition for athletes using performance-enhancing drugs.

Reason · Mar 22, 2024

Enhanced Games Head Rebuts Biden: Performance Enhancements in Sports Are 'Inevitable'

Just stop it. Let elite athletes honestly choose to use performance enhancements or not.

AAP · Mar 19, 2024

Perkins warns of athlete deaths in Enhanced Games

Aussie swimming legend Kieren Perkins says allowing athletes to take drugs will end in disaster, warning someone will die if the Enhanced Games go ahead.

The Guardian - UK · Feb 24, 2024

Grotesque Enhanced Games removes brain barrier in quest to get running

Aron D’Souza makes all sorts of wild comparisons to justify existence of drug-fuelled athletes but just spouts horseshit

The Hindu · Feb 16, 2024

Venture capitalists back ‘steroid Olympics’ where drug-testing is legal

Despite rhetoric about making sport safer and “the medical and scientific process of elevating humanity to its full potential”, the games are out to make money.

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