The 2025 Enhanced Games’ Board of Directors would like the emphasis and embracement of this revolutionary concept in athletic competition to spark new constructive dialogue within the sports community. Hot, popular topics, such as “anti-aging” and “positive enhancement through science,” that tend to steer the discussions of leading podcasts and online forums, are bound to continue surfacing and move towards becoming more mainstream. This will be due in part to the popularity surrounding this upcoming event.
This trend aligns perfectly with the thought process of the Games’ athletes, sponsors, and founders. They hope to challenge the old ideas and mainstream narrative surrounding performance enhancement in athletic competition. On May 21st, 2025, the organization will announce the date and location of the inaugural 2025 Enhanced Games through its official X channel.
The Enhanced Games are projected to be an athletic spectacle celebrating bodily autonomy and self-determination. Like other sanctioned World Championships and Olympic-style events, the Enhancement Games will offer sporting competitions across various domains. The field events will likely consist of commonly known, traditional track and field, running, and pit events.
The pool should also run the exact distances and structures that competitive swimmers are accustomed to. The strength categories can focus on the essential snatch, clean, and jerk, while other, more power-lifting type elements could also be included.
There is said to be substantial prize money for competitors who take the podium and even more for those who challenge and break existing world records. Finally, and most controversially, is that provided athletes fully disclose and account for their usage, they are allowed to compete, while having used, or are currently using, performance enhancing drugs (PED’s).
The Enhanced Games represent both a revelation and a creation. A reputable survey has revealed that up to 44% of internationally competitive athletes admit to relying on performance-enhancing drugs as an integral component of their training.
The data also suggests that world-class athletes, even those with accolades and awards that rank them among the best in their field, are grossly underpaid. The Enhanced Games sponsors and administrative team are poised to reverse this troubling statistic.
“The underpayment of athletes is the core moral failing of the Olympic movement” – Aron D’Souza, founder of the Enhanced Games
At the Enhanced Games, athletes will be compensated with a base salary and offered further incentives for first-place finishes and world records that are said to be in the neighborhood of six figures.
The Enhanced Games are often viewed as a “free for all”, where anyone can fill their system with whatever chemical they wish, and then compete, while disregarding future adverse health implications. Also, there is the polarizing argument surrounding transgender athletes competing in certain events.
All competitors are expected to follow a strict format. The first being that athletes are only allowed to use supplements and/or drugs that are governed and approved by, we are guessing, the FDA?? Also, each competitor is to fully account for what they are taking. This would lead one to infer that athletes are still being tested either leading up to competition or on the day of. Either way, the combination of these two factors suggests that the Enhanced Games will not be the drug-taking circus that many wish to portray it as being. Lastly, mandatory health checks, such as heart monitoring and an MRI, will stop athletes from exceeding safe limitations.
It is no secret that competitive and professional athletes will do anything to get ahead. As a society, we can continue admonishing those who break rules and will do whatever it takes to win, or ask for a new system of transparency. The aim of the Enhanced Games is the latter. They hope to create a new system where there would never again be a reason for athletes to lie or risk taking something toxic in pursuit of their athletic goals.
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