Doping in Las Vegas: My Trip to the Enhanced Games

Somewhere between taking a Zoox self-driving taxi down Las Vegas Boulevard, watching steroid-engorged swimmers in bodysuits shred through a pool at a Zoop-sponsored tournament, and partying with them and their billionaire handlers at the nightclub Zouk, it dawned on me that I had slipped into a parallel universe. I was at the inaugural Enhanced Games, a three-sport event founded by a group of Silicon Valley techno-libertarians that asks one question: How far can you push athletic performance if you give athletes access to some of the most powerful performance-enhancing drugs known to humankind? The competition, held in Sin City’s Resorts…