Enhanced Games competition without drug bans

'The Enhanced Games' is a controversial tournament organized to openly allow athletes to use performance-enhancing drugs (doping). This project, initiated by German billionaire Christian Angermayer, attempts to justify itself by claiming its athletes operate with more transparency than those who secretly use drugs and cheat in traditional sports competitions.

However, although Angermayer stated that this is done not only for sports performance but also with the expectation of longevity, research has shown that these two goals can be contradictory in reality, and some former elite athletes face severe health problems in middle age.

Critics point out that this sports festival is actually a massive promotional project to market the expensive dietary supplements sold by Angermayer. The global dietary supplement market, already worth around $200 billion, is expected to double in the next few years. Although authorities boast about the transparency of the tournament, no one knows exactly what drugs athletes used or in what dosages. Furthermore, since the clinical trial involving over 30 athletes is funded by the company itself, questions have arisen regarding its reliability.

Medical experts have raised serious doubts about the scientific basis of some supplements and peptides sold by this company. Eric Topol, a cardiologist at Scripps Research, points out that there is insufficient evidence for commonly used peptides. Moreover, the theoretical basis of the popular 'N.A.D.+' supplement, marketed as preventing aging, was recently disproven by research published in 'Nature Metabolism' journal, which confirmed that blood N.A.D.+ levels do not actually decline with age.

Dr. Topol states that the high demand for these non-medical remedies in society is due to the distrust in the healthcare system that emerged with the COVID-19 pandemic and the promotions by social media influencers. People becoming accustomed to using self-injectable devices without a doctor's prescription has also been a major reason. Furthermore, media reports indicate that attempts by political figures like Robert F. Kennedy to relax federal restrictions on peptides could greatly benefit the 'Enhanced Group,' which also receives support from prominent individuals like Donald Trump Jr.

However, the results of this tournament, touted as a "revolution" in the sports world, were largely uninspiring. According to the organizers, only one world record was broken by a drug-using athlete in this tournament, which was watched by approximately 250,000 people on YouTube. A striking fact is that three clean athletes (one swimmer and two runners), who did not use drugs, won their respective events. Tristan Evelyn, an athlete from Barbados who won the women's 100-meter event, stated that this clearly proved that winning requires more than just chemistry.