Improved games started their inauguration competition for May 2026 in Las Vegas, with swimming, athletics and weightlifting on the show athletes who use substances banned in the official competition of anti -doping bodies.
The founder of Aron D’Aron, who starts at the Las Vegas ” Neon Glow at the opening at the opening, called on the athlete to get gambling in the novel competition, which he believes can transform sports science, but critics mock like a crazy show.
The organizers offered what they consider to be their greatest story about success so far: Kristian Gkolomeev, a Greek swimmer who has never done a stage at the four Olympic Games, but exceeded one of the great successes of his sport as part of the Enhanced Games program.
Golomeev floated two hundredths of a second faster than 50m freestyle official world record, which cost more than 15 years, threw 20.89 with an inline full -body open water suit falling outside world water standards.
“I’m like a driver in a car, but I need a team behind me,” he said before the event in Las Vegas Gkolomeev, who finished fifth in the Paris Games.
Improved games held a 31 -year -old man as an example of what is possible under their regime, and at the same time refuse to reveal which “improvement of performance” he used, referring to medical confidentiality.
“He should be retired, but in fact he swims faster than any human being when she ever did. Why? Because he used technology and science to increase his performance,” said D’Oho.
“As soon as the world realizes it, I think everyone wants it. Every middle -aged person who once played a competitive sport and now suffers from back pain, says,” What is it and how can I get it? “
Improved games work in the principle that the ban on drugs increasing performance in great competition protects athletes, but rather suppresses their performance.
“Our project is very similar to Formula 1, because the research that causes Formula 1 cars to run faster will eventually emerge on the road,” said Australian entrepreneur to Reuters.
“And in the same way, science and medicine that is used to make athletes achieve world record performance in ever older ages, all people, all our society ages healthier and gracefully.”
“Roman Circus”?
Participants could earn money for a total of $ 500,000 for an event plus bonuses for overcoming the world record stamp.
For swimming are 50m freestyle, 100m freestyle, 50m butterfly and 100m butterfly. Athletics has a 100m sprint along with 110 mA obstacles, while weightlifting will contain a snippet and clean and jerky.
The World Anti -Doping Agency became a project against the project and warned athletes that they were risking bans and their health.
The International Federation of Sports Medicine said that the project could lead to exploitation of young athletes.
“When you think that because you are performing medical checks on the spot, it will give you a good idea of the health risks of abuse of doping substances, again with medical and scientific nonsense,” said Olivier Rabin, director of the world anti -doping agency.
“It’s like a Roman circus, you know, you sacrifice people’s lives purely for fun. What is the value of that? I don’t think any responsible society should move in this direction.”
D’Aouza claims that doping in professional and amateur sport is growing despite the efforts to remove the use of forbidden substances, leading to being done secretly and dangerously.
“Instead, in improved games, we reverse it, making it fair, levels, transparent fields, so innovation can be illustrated in a very public way to support technological progress,” he said.
Last year, D’Ohou announced that it attracted large investors to PayPal co -founder Peter Thiel, technical investor Christian Angermayer and former technology director Coinbase Balaji Srinivasan.
That year he also signed the first improved athlete for the Games, in retirement of the Australian World Swimmer James Magnussen, who agreed to use the forbidden drugs increasing performance in an effort to overcome the 50m freestyle record Cesar Cielo.
Andriy Govorov, Ukrainian 50m holder of the world record of butterflies and a world bronze medalist, and the 21 -year -old Bulgarian swimmer Josif Miladinov, a European silver medalist, joined the Enhanced Games program last month.
Magnussen, who left the competition in 2019, told reporters that training with improved games was ruled by his passion for sport and that his passengers’ reactions were “tremendously positive”.
“I woke up every day with enthusiasm for training, compete. I felt so healthy, so motivated,” he said. “It’s honestly the happiest I’ve been in seven years,” he said.
“As athletes, we have a greater risk taste than the general population and we see an event as improved games as an opportunity.”
Improved games 2026 are set for LAS Vegas from 21 to 24 May.
Published:
Sabyasachi Chowdhury
Published on:
23 May 2025
