Two decorated Canadian athletes are among those competing at this weekend's inaugural Enhanced Games — which is either the future of sport or its downfall, depending on who you ask.

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Backed by billionaire investors and featuring Olympic medallists using performance-enhancing drugs, the inaugural Games will be held in Las Vegas.

Why are the Enhanced Games, taking place in Las Vegas this weekend, so contentious, and how have governing bodies have responded to the event?

More than 40 athletes, most using performance-enhancing drugs, will compete in the Enhanced Games in a competition that seeks to upend sporting norms.

Doping in sports is nothing new. Athletes at the Enhanced Games will know the risks — severe injury, even paralysis. But bioethicists are also concerned we're opening the gates to…

Backed by investors including Peter Thiel and Donald Trump Jr., the “Steroid Olympics” are turning banned substances into the centerpiece of a new spectacle.

The first-ever Enhanced Games -- widely dubbed the "Steroid Olympics" -- take place Sunday in Las Vegas, where elite sprinters, swimmers and weightlifters will vie for world…

It’s a prime-time, livestreamed advertisement for a drug business. Swimming, athletics and weightlifting, the bait.

The Enhanced Games wants to sell itself as the future: faster and honest about the drugs sport has spent decades pretending do not exist.

Enhanced Games, dubbed “steroid Olympics,” allows doping under supervision, sparking global debate over sport ethics and athlete safety.

We’re evidently in our enhancement era.

The Enhanced Games, taking place this weekend in Las Vegas, support “safe, responsible, and clinically supervised use of performance enhancements.”

The event allows athletes to use performance-enhancing drugs in an attempt to surpass records set under traditional anti-doping rules.

Olympic medallists are among 42 athletes competing in the controversial competition, but the Enhanced Games has big product plans beyond the event this weekend.

Record-chasing athletes could be guinea pigs for wider public in quest for eternal life

Les Enhanced Games, où le dopage est autorisé, naîtront ce dimanche à Las Vegas (États-Unis). Une première édition qui s’annonce chancelante

La première édition des «Enhanced Games», compétition où le dopage est autorisé et encadré, a lieu dimanche à Las Vegas avec des nageurs, des sprinteurs et des haltérophiles ayant…

LAS VEGAS, May 23 — The first-ever Enhanced Games — widely dubbed the “Steroid Olympics” — take place Sunday in Las Vegas, where elite sprinters, swimmers and...

Love them or loathe them, the Enhanced Games have struck a nerve.

This weekend's Enhanced Games sits at an uneasy intersection of innovation, ethics and commerce, writes James Witts.