Posted on 06/11/2025 1:10:02 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — The global watchdog of doping in sports said Wednesday it will urge public authorities to shut down the drug-fueled Enhanced Games planned in Las Vegas next year.
“We will urge the U.S. authorities to find legal ways to block this initiative,” World Anti-Doping Agency president Witold Banka said on the sidelines of a meeting of Olympic sports bodies.
Organizers of the games scheduled for next May promise $1 million bonuses to beat world-record times by athletes who will be encouraged to use performance-enhancing drugs under medical supervision.
“This initiative seeks to normalize the use of potentially dangerous drugs,” Banka told leaders of Summer Olympics sports at the annual meeting of their umbrella group, known as ASOIF.
“For the sake of athlete health and the purity of sport of course it must be stopped,” the WADA leader said.
Banka, a former sports minister in Poland, suggested the Enhanced Games could be legally exposed in the state of Nevada or federally.
“This is something that has to be explored from the legal perspective,” he told The Associated Press. “I cannot imagine, for instance, doctors giving the drugs to the athletes. It is completely against the values of their work.”
“The main thing is this event is going to be located in the U.S., so I think there is a strong role to be played by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency,” said Banka, whose Montreal-based organization has long had a troubled relationship with the American agency.
Said USADA’s chief executive, Travis Tygart: “Banka’s indignation equals his misinformation or ignorance about how free democratic societies and markets work.”
He challenged Banka to testify at a U.S. Senate hearing next week at which WADA will be the topic.
“If he really wants to ask U.S. authorities to do something, he should show up and ask the Senate to do something,...”
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I have no problem with people stroking out their brains or bursting their hearts at Vegas extreme games. It adds to the excitement.
Daughter, SIL and two friends went to Vegas a few years ago to see a pro football game.. They;re not dopers, but all got stoned just walking outside AND inside their hotel.
Took me a good 5 minutes to stop laughing after I read that. From the same idiots in charge who are fine with biological men boxing against women.
They make it sound like they are going to be on cocaine and heroin.
Most of the banned drugs do not make you high or otherwise mess with your mind, they are simply banned because they COULD enhance your ability.
Oh he pulled his arms off!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAdG-iTilWU
SNL All Drug Olympics
A classic.
“Canada, of course, is leading that competition.”
“This is something that has to be explored from the legal perspective,” he told The Associated Press. “I cannot imagine, for instance, doctors giving the drugs to the athletes. It is completely against the values of their work.”Mifeprex? Aldactone? Adderall? Opill/Adri?
So what are the events? The “high” (wink, wink) jump? The 2kg run? The cocaine 500? The 100 meter freebase?
Too many elderly are lost beginning with physical debility. Normalize PEDs in sports, and let that bleed into geriatric medicine so the elderly are kept in good physical condition and moving into their later years, and you will see the elderly both enjoying life, and staying healthier, right up until their dying days.
These events are a good thing.
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