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# Elite Athletes Are Choosing Doping Over Olympic Glory
- URL: https://adjacent.media/signals/elite-athletes-are-choosing-doping-over-olympic-glory/
- Published: 2026-05-04T23:06:04.000Z
- Updated: 2026-05-04T23:06:04.000Z
- Description: The Enhanced Games—a competition that explicitly permits performance-enhancing drugs and is backed by Trump Jr.’s investment firm—has recruited athletes willing to surrender Olympic eligibility.
- Author: Jonathan Greene
- Tags: #signal, theme-culture, sports, regulation/policy, entertainment

Source: [GQ](https://www.gq.com/story/enhanced-games-olympics-athletes?ref=adjacent.media)

The Enhanced Games—a competition that explicitly permits performance-enhancing drugs and is backed by Trump Jr.'s investment firm—has recruited athletes willing to surrender Olympic eligibility. The move reveals actual demand for unrestricted athletic competition that the IOC's century-old ban does not satisfy. A parallel institution offering legal PED use attracts serious competitors and threatens the Olympic movement's monopoly on elite athletic prestige. The IOC's control depends entirely on athletes' willingness to accept its restrictions. That dependency is now being tested in Abu Dhabi.