The Enhanced Games – or Depopulation Olympics?

A Deeper Look at the New “Steroid Olympics”

An openly-drugged version of the Olympics has finally arrived. A company called Enhance is running “the inaugural Enhanced Games” in Las Vegas over Memorial Day Weekend in May (Enhanced, 2025a).

The Enhanced Games openly permits use of performance-enhancing drugs (PEDs) banned by most other athletic bodies.

The inaugural event will feature swimming, track & field, and weightlifting events.

Event winners have been promised $250,000, plus a hefty $1 million bonus for breaking official world records in the 100m sprint (track) and 50m freestyle (pool) (Enhanced, 2025b).

As you might expect, the Enhanced Games have been roundly criticized by established athletic organizations as reckless, irresponsible and dangerous (Herzlich, 2025; Hopkins, 2026; IOC & WADA, 2025; World Aquatics, 2025).

Enhanced, meanwhile, insists everything is hunk-dory. It claims the Enhanced Games “celebrates human potential through safe, transparent enhancement, offering fair play, record pay, and unmatched athlete care” (Enhanced, 2025c). (Bold emphasis added)

Enhanced further claims it will medically monitor its athletes, and says: “The Enhanced Games do not endorse the indiscriminate use of restricted substances. We advocate for the safe, responsible, and clinically supervised use of performance enhancements” (Enhanced, 2025d).

At least that’s what the blurb says.

While Enhanced waxes lyrical about transparency, its athletes are not obliged to publicly disclose what drugs they have taken, making it difficult for outside observers to determine just how “safe, responsible, and clinically supervised” their drug use is.

In addition to running what has been widely dubbed the “Steroid Olympics”, Enhanced has mimicked organizations like the IOC by establishing its own Medical and Science Commissions (Enhanced, 2025d). Their purported role is not just to ‘monitor’ the athletes, but to conduct and publish research. The nature of this proposed research remains unclear, as the Enhanced website is pretty vague – there’s lots of grandiose and often cringe-worthy verbiage, but little in the way of specific details.

The Drugs-in-Sport Conundrum

Enhanced is presenting its Games as an ‘enlightened’ and egalitarian response to modern sports, where drug use is not supposed to occur but of course does.

So let’s back up a moment and see how we got to this point.

If an athlete signs a contract with a sporting body, and that contract forbids the use of banned PEDs, then the athlete should avoid using said PEDs.

Simple.

Except it isn’t.

The main problem is the deficiency of testing, which can be subverted in numerous ways. Such methods have included microdosing, the use of designer drugs for which tests don’t yet exist, use of masking agents, and using drugs with a short half-life and ceasing their use to create a ‘wash-out’ period prior to a drug-tested event.

Then there’s the reality that some countries adopt a far more lax attitude to testing than others.

And that some organizations, while paying lip service to drug testing, do little to no actual testing (for example, prominent strongman and powerlifting organizations).

And that some outfits use drug testing very selectively. In an infamous example, the increasingly unprofessional farce that is the UFC waived the mandatory four-month testing window ahead of Brock Lesnar’s 2016 return fight with Mark Hunt (Okamoto, 2017). The only explanation it gave was “exceptional circumstances”, which we can safely interpret as “the UFC stands to make a shit-ton of money and publicity from Brock Lesnar’s return, so we’re happy to look the other way when it comes to drug use”

Sure enough, Lesnar failed two drug tests, one 11 days out and another on the day of the bout. The UFC claimed it was unaware of the initial positive test. Meanwhile, Hunt went into the fight drug-free. Lesnar defeated Hunt by unanimous decision, but the bout was later ruled a no-contest after USADA and the Nevada State Athletic Commission each suspended Lesnar for one year.

Lesnar allegedly tested positive for clomiphene, a substance which saw Jon “Bones” Jones pulled from the same event (Pugmire, 2016). Jones is another fighter who has received inexplicably preferential treatment from the UFC despite a long history of failed drug tests and appalling out-of-the-ring behavior.

Such loopholes and corruption, when combined with human nature and the obsessive pursuit of sporting glory, mean some athletes will have little compunction about using PEDs.

Which then creates a very real conundrum for many athletes who would normally avoid PEDs:

1. Use drugs and be a contender, or;

2. Don’t use drugs, and suffer the frustration of busting your butt in training only to keep getting beaten by dopers.

If there was a foolproof method of testing that was applied across the board, without fear or favor, the problem of drugs in competitive sport would pretty much be eliminated. Sadly, that’s not where we are at.

Human Performance versus Pharmacological and Technological Feats

When I watch an athlete perform an impressive feat on TV or YouTube, I like to think I’m witnessing the result of talent, hard work, and intelligent diet and training – not pharmacology.

I also like being told the truth. For this reason, I think weight-cutting should be banned from sports, and that athletes should be weighed on the day of competition. It amazes me how the world of sports is happy to constantly have its intelligence insulted, being told that an athlete is competing at 65 kilograms when in reality they step into the ring weighing 75 kilograms.

In my book, that’s called lying and I don’t see how it’s any more ethical than microdosing with EPO. You could argue the latter is in fact safer because it doesn’t entail stepping into a ring with an opponent who is trying to give you CTE while you remain slightly flat and dehydrated after a severe weight cut.

When Cameron Smotherman recently collapsed immediately after stepping off the scales prior to UFC 324, Dana White’s response was dismissive (McCrum, 2026). “He’s ok,” said White (Smotherman’s bout had to be cancelled).

“If doctors don’t know what happened, how the f*** do I know how it happened? Could be nerves, it could be a million things,” White said.

“It’s always going to be a problem with guys cutting weight, if they don’t come to the PI (Performance Institute) for help, what are you going to do?

They’re all grown men and women, if that’s what they’re going to decide to do, they’re going to do it. Everybody’s always looking for an advantage.”

So this is where we’re at in 2026 when it comes to sports that still happily accept the unhealthy practice of severe weight drops and rebounds prior to competition: “Hey, they’re big boys and girls, everyone’s looking for an advantage, what the f*** do you want us to do?”

The Enhanced Games will not only permit drugs, but the use of banned technologies. If you want to know just how much of a difference technology can make, look no further than the sport of powerlifting, which openly allows the use of suits that are so absurdly tight and compressive they typically require the help of a partner to put on. Here’s a video of a guy who got stuck in his squat suit for an hour; when getting your gear on and off requires more effort than the lift itself, you have to seriously stop and question the whole gig.

As of this writing, the current “equipped” world record for the bench press is 1,401 pounds (635 kg), set by Jimmy Kolb in 2023, using a bench shirt.

And the world record without an absurdly tight bench shirt?

The raw bench press record is 782.6 pounds (355 kg), held by Julius Maddox.

Yep, the equipped world record bench press is almost 300 kg more than the raw world record. Not only does equipped lifting greatly increase the amount of weight hoisted, but it completely changes the dynamic of the lift. Most raw lifters get stuck in the bench press when trying to get the bar off their chest. When wearing a bench shirt, the biggest challenge becomes locking out an unnaturally heavy weight, because garment elasticity has helped carry the bar through the first two-thirds of the press.

Let He Who Has Not Sinned Cast the First Needle

As you might surmise, I’m not a fan of drugs in sports, nor of technologies that do not merely ‘enhance’ but in fact completely change the nature of the game.

That said, I’ve long been dismayed by the hypocrisy and hysteria that surrounds the issue of drugs in sports. It bemuses me to no end to observe people who binge drink and/or use recreational drugs like marijuana, ecstasy and cocaine miraculously transform into anti-drug puritans the moment the conversation turns to sports doping.

I’ll also be forever disgusted at the fact that people like Ben Johnson and Lance Armstrong were subject to the kind of sustained, global, front-page scorn that no pedophile, serial killer or war criminal in recent history has ever been subjected to.

When using drugs to run or ride your bike faster upsets people more than child molestation and the murder of innocents, you know the world’s priorities are seriously out of whack.

Lance Armstrong was a complete asshole during his competitive years, the schoolyard bully of the peloton. He also wasn’t above phoning sports writers at their homes and blasting them when they wrote something he didn’t like, and would set his legal team upon those not intimidated by his bad temper and skinny road cyclist physique (to Armstrong’s credit, he now acknowledges he behaved like a jackass). While a few of his competitors – like Marco Pantani, Filippo Simeoni and Robbie McEwen - refused to be intimidated by him, most of the peloton cowered. The world’s media also largely pandered to Armstrong, downplaying his behavior by describing him as a “brash Texan.” I’ve been to Texas, and I don’t recall anyone behaving like Armstrong – most of the people I ran into were pleasant enough.

It wasn’t until Armstrong was finally forced to admit to doping that the media went bonkers and launched an orgy of Lance-hate.

Most people, in the course of their lives, will experience far more problems as a result of obnoxious, bullying assholes than they ever will from doping athletes.

So when society is indifferent to a famous bloke acting like an obnoxious twat but suddenly goes apoplectic when he is caught out using EPO and testosterone, it further tells me the world really needs to recalibrate its moral compass.

How Safe Is This, Really?

The Enhanced website evinces an undeniably rose-colored view of PEDs. Enhanced openly claims its games are “safe”, and glorifies the use of PEDs as a means of “Transforming Human Potential Into Superhumanity” (Enhanced, 2025e).

Based on the available science, the assertion that doping can be conducted in a predictably safe manner - and that it can transform athletes into ‘superhumans’ - is premature.

Some might say reckless, irresponsible and dangerous.

No matter how permissive one is towards ergogenic drug use, only an idiot would deny PEDs are potent pharmaceuticals with the potential to produce an array of side effects.

There does exist peer-reviewed research showing that a single phase of short-term (10-20 weeks) use of a single anabolic drug such as testosterone enanthate can increase muscular body weight in men without producing evident side effects (for examples, see Bhasin et al, 1996; Bhasin et al, 2001).

However, this does not reflect typical real world use of PEDs by athletes, which often involves polypharmacy (concomitant use of multiple drugs) and repeated cycles or even continuous use on a long-term basis.

A ‘superhuman’ would reasonably be expected to evince not just impressive athleticism, but an above-average resistance to disease and ill-health. However, the research shows PED use, especially long-term (as would be required to sustain a drug-based athletic career), increases cardiovascular disease risk, reproductive dysfunction, and premature mortality (for examples, see Albano et al, 2021; Torrisi et al, 2020; Windfeld-Mathiasen et al, 2024) .

A recent literature review of sudden death cases among anabolic steroid-using individuals found most victims were male, and the most frequently reported pathological alterations were heart enlargement, left ventricular hypertrophy, and fibrosis and necrosis of myocardial tissue (Torrisi et al, 2020).

An especially concerning study by Windfeld-Mathiasen et al (2024) compared Danish males from the general population with those who had received a doping ban of 2 years as a result of random inspections and drug testing. They found those sanctioned for doping had almost 3 times the mortality risk during a mean eleven years of follow-up than the control subjects.

The first athlete to sign up with Enhanced was Australian swimmer James Magnussen, who came out of retirement to pursue the $1 million bounty on offer. Magnussen was widely quoted in 2024 as saying: “If they put up $1m for the 50 freestyle world record, I will come on board as their first athlete ... I’ll juice to the gills and I’ll break it in six months” (Australian Associated Press, 2024).

“Juiced to the gills” is a common vernacular descriptor for a person who uses copious amounts of anabolic steroids to build a muscular physique or improve their athletic performance. It does not refer to “safe” and “responsible” PED use.

In preparation for a February 2025 Enhanced event in North Carolina, Magnussen used testosterone and the peptides BPC-157 and CJC-1295 (Decent, 2025).

Magnussen’s race weight in his prime was 95 kg. During his drug-enhanced preparation for the North Carolina event “he gained 5kg in 10 days and ultimately ballooned out to 115kg”, according to his trainer.

Let’s compare this to the results seen during an oft-cited RCT by Bhasin et al (2006) that found healthy men aged 19-40 experienced significant muscle growth but no side effects when administered 600 mg of testosterone enanthate weekly for 10 weeks.

While a weekly dose of 600 mg is six times the recommended therapeutic dose for testosterone enanthate’s medically approved use (male hypogonadism), it sounds modest when compared to dosages being reported on the Internet by bodybuilders and strength athletes. The mean weight gain for men assigned to the TE + resistance training group in the Bhasin et al 2006 study was six kilograms over 10 weeks. If James Magnusson really gained 5 kg in a mere 10 days, it would suggest he was taking a lot more than 600 mg of testosterone weekly.

Despite the drugs, Magnussen not only failed to break the 50m freestyle world record but did not even match his 2013 personal best. He was beaten by Greek Olympian Kristian Gkolomeev who clocked 20.89, faster than the official world record of 20.91 seconds set by Brazilian Cesar Cielo in 2009.

Like all “record-breaking” performances occurring at non-drug-tested events, Gkolomeev’s time will not be officially recognized as a world record by established sporting bodies such as World Aquatics.

The Transhumanist Games

Now here’s where things get interesting. Major investors in Enhanced include Donald Trump Jr’s firm 1789 Capital and tech billionaire Peter Thiel (Coffey, 2025; Herzlich, 2025).

Judging by his pre-beard deadlift form, Trump Jr would be better off forgetting about PEDs and investing in a strength coach that can teach him proper lifting technique.

Donald Trump Jr deadlifting the same way the Trumps do everything: Loud, proud, and wrong.

Thiel, meanwhile, is a co-founder and Chairman of Palantir Technologies, a company that has developed surveillance technology for such murderous entities as the Israel Defense Force and US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency (Cox, 2026; Newman, 2024).

Judging by an interview he gave last year, Thiel can be fairly described as weird.

He is something of a misanthrope who subscribes to transhumanism, a belief that human beings should be ‘improved’ by morphing them with technology. When asked in a 2025 interview if he believed humans should “endure” as a species, Thiel hesitated, stalled, stuttered and said “I dunno”.

When the understandably concerned interviewer commented on his hesitation and pressed him further, Thiel again hesitated before finally saying “Yes O.K.”

He then began a disjointed diatribe about transsexuality and transhumanism, saying “we want more than cross-dressing or changing your sex organs. We want you to be able to change your heart and change your mind and change your whole body” (Interesting Times with Ross Douthat, 2025).

Huh?

Like many of his cohorts in the billionaire parasite class, Thiel is a hypocrite. While unsure as to whether the rest of humanity deserves to survive, Thiel himself “wants to live a longer life”, has invested heavily in research aimed at extending life, and plans to be cryogenically frozen upon his death and revived when technology allows, according to The Atlantic (Gellman, 2023).

“To know that some of the most significant figures in American social and political life support the Enhanced Games is more important to us than any investment,” said the Australian-born founder and president of Enhanced, Aron D’Souza (Coffey, 2025).

So why would “some of the most significant figures in American social and political life” support a highly controversial endeavor like the Enhanced Games?

Thiel seems to have had little interest in competitive sport (certainly no financial interest) until his investment in the Enhanced Games. When Enhanced talks of conducting research, one wonders whether this research is truly motivated by benevolent concerns, or whether the athletes under its care will be used as guinea pigs by transhumanist billionaires interested in furthering their own longevity, such as Thiel.

Speaking of the parasitic billionaire class...

The Depop Agenda, Again

The parasite class has invested heavily in agendas designed to “cull the herd”.

There’s the globalist-promoted feminist movement and its ongoing war against men, which has left masses of Western women - evidently unaware of the Law of Consequences - puzzled as to why many men no longer want anything to do with them.

Flourishing instep with the intensely anti-feminine movement that is feminism was denigration of the nuclear family unit and the glorification of hook-up culture, which encourages both genders to view each other as objects of sexual gratification rather than long-term pair bond prospects. Compared to marital sex, casual sex is ‘unproductive’ and less likely to result in the birth of healthy offspring.

We have modern marriage law, unprecedented in legal history by its unabashed asymmetry. Men, typically the main breadwinners in a marriage, are increasingly refusing to enter into a contract that handsomely rewards the other person for breaking it.

We had the Great COVID Con, which culminated in mass-administration of toxic and sometimes fatal clot shots masquerading as ‘vaccines’. “Social distancing” mandated during the scamdemic also did a great job of exacerbating social isolation. People deprived of social interaction who can’t effectively communicate with each other are less likely to meet, marry and make babies.

The parasite class also took the opportunity during COVID to subject its captive audience to an unprecedented PR campaign for gender fluidity. It aggressively encouraged youngsters to undergo gender transitioning while still in their formative years, claiming – without any valid scientific support – that allowing them to wait until they were older and wiser would lead to a tsunami of suicides.

When the Shillitary-Industrial Complex can’t win you with facts, it equips its useful idiots with emotion-triggering soundbites designed to bypass people’s rational faculties.

The above is not an exhaustive list, but these and other factors help slow population growth by reducing the pool of reproductively fruitful pair bonds.

So what does all this have to do with PEDs?

Well, one of the most common side effects of anabolic steroid use is reproductive dysfunction (Albano et al, 2021). So if you’re trying to start a family, they’re a definite no-go zone.

Exogenous (externally administered) testosterone impairs fertility - so much so, that it has been studied as a male contraceptive. This contraceptive effect is not evident in all men, which is why testosterone has yet to win FDA approval as a birth control measure. Scientists haven’t given up though, and are experimenting with different testosterone esters (undecanoate is looking more promising than enanthate).

Azoospermia (where a man has no sperm in his ejaculate) occurs in 65% of normospermic men receiving exogenous testosterone within 4 months of use. Men in the clinical trials evincing these findings eventually recovered to baseline levels after cessation of T-therapy; however, it took up to 2 years for some men to do so (Patel et al, 2019).

Remember, those figures were obtained from clinical trials monitored by trained researchers and examining exogenous testosterone - not from athletes and bodybuilders practicing gonzo polypharmacy and taking an array of shady anabolics.

Researchers from the Max Planck Institute in Germany compared 41 bodybuilders who had used steroids with 41 drug-free volunteers (Knuth et al, 1985). The bodybuilders reported using a wide variety of testosterone esters and problematic drugs including trenbolone acetate (“tren”), stanazolol (Winstrol, or “winnie”), nandrolone and nandrolone decanoate (“deca”), oxymetholone (Anadrol, Anapolon), boldenone, and the infamous metandienone (Dianabol, or “Dbol”). Doses of anabolic steroids taken by the bodybuilders exceeded those used for clinical purposes by up to 40-fold.

Twenty-four of the bodybuilders showed subnormal sperm count values, compared to 5 of the normal volunteers.

Nineteen of the bodybuilders were still juicing at the time of the study; the remainder had been off the gear for at least 3 months prior. In those bodybuilders who had stopped consumption of anabolic steroids over 4 months previously, sperm numbers were in the normal range.

Spanish researchers found sperm counts took around 6 months to return to normal in steroid-using/abusing subjects (de la Torre Abril at al, 2005).

So with a bit of luck, AS-induced infertility can return to normal in men who have abused steroids simply by stopping the drugs.

Others, however, won’t be so lucky.

When simple cessation doesn’t work, doctors are forced to turn to drugs like clomiphene and hCG to try and ‘kickstart’ a man’s sperm production. This was the approach used in a study of men with a self-reported history of anabolic steroid use’ presenting at the University of Miami Men’s Health clinic for infertility and evincing very low sperm count. Despite treatment, more than half the men showed limited improvement in semen parameters after 6 months of treatment (Ledesma et al, 2023).

So let’s play devil’s advocate here.

We have a digital environment where PED use no longer arouses global hysteria, but is in fact celebrated. The world seems to increasingly adore individuals who openly abuse steroids.

Mike Israetel, who boasts about having spent over a decade on steroids continuously, and who uses so much juice he probably squishes and squeaks when he walks, has 1 million followers on Instagram and 3.84 million YouTube followers.

Brothers Christian and Michael Gaiera are so unabashed about their drug abuse they outright call themselves the Tren Twins. They have over 2 million followers on YouTube.

Millions of people suckling on the electronic boob are being taught steroid abuse is no big deal. In fact, it seems to be a prerequisite if you want to become a high-earning fitness influencer who can attract millions of followers.

On top of this, we have a new ‘Olympics’ that glorifies the use of PEDs including anabolic steroids, which reliably induce temporary and sometimes long-lasting reproductive dysfunction. Enhanced even sells testosterone on its website.

Major investors in this questionable new development include the son of the world’s most famous globopuppet and an evil tech-nerd who apparently wants humanity to end, but can’t quite admit it publicly.

A reminder of who Junior’s old man is, and who he answers to.

The most favorable assumption you could make about the Enhanced Games is that it really is about harm minimization. That it is being conducted by ethical people who truly care about athletes and wish to see if and how PED use can be conducted safely.

However, I could not even begin to associate the likes of Donald Trump Jr and Peter Thiel with concepts like ethics, care and harm minimization. I think it’s fair to say I’m hardly the only person who feels this way.

The next possibility is that this is simply a money-grab, an attempt to create a morbidly fascinating freak-show that will see world records smashed. In a world where people don’t care that pro-wrestling is obviously fake, it’s not unfathomable to surmise a lot of people won’t care if the only reason a world record fell was because the athlete was “juiced to the gills”.

An even more disturbing possibility is that the Enhanced Games are part of a deeper agenda: An experiment by longevity-seeking billionaires to test the effects of PEDs at various dosages and combinations on athletes eager for the lavish prize-money on offer, and a further opportunity to advance the depopulation agenda by making fertility-squashing drugs great again.

My spidey-senses tell me there is more to the Enhanced Games than meets the eye. While I wholly support genuine attempts by reputable researchers to minimize the harms of PEDs, the Enhanced Games – with its shady backers and preordained conclusion that PED use is safe – seem about as reputable and earnest as a One Nation politician.

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