Enhanced Games is taking everyone for dopes

The Las Vegas event claims it will showcase what humans can achieve when they are allowed to use performance-enhancing drugs. Have they never watched the Olympics or Tour de France?

Regular readers of the Zeus Files have probably been waiting for me to write about the Enhanced Games, the first event to openly allow its athletes to use performance-enhancing drugs, for a while now.

I had been waiting for organisers to announce the name that would really make me sit up and take notice, as a swimmer who retired in 2019 and a sprinter whose mouth runs faster than his legs was not really cutting it for me.

With the event due to take place in Las Vegas on Sunday, Australia’s two-time World Championship swimming gold medallist James Magnussen, the last of them 13 years ago, and American sprinter Fred Kerley, an Olympic 100m silver medallist already banned for doping, is as good as it gets, I guess.