I struggle to find the words to express the depth of my disdain for this concept. It is misguided and uninteresting and entertained only by deeply unserious people. It dwells in the space of ideas likely to be given voice by a fourteen-year-old the second or third time they smoke weed. It is only considered at any length by people so vapid, so ignorant, so poisoned by the false impression that they are the protagonist of reality, that they sincerely believe that every idea that enters their muddled consciousness is the product of their original and unique insight, rather than something banal and mundane that has been dismissed already by countless other thinkers.
What is more, we already know exactly what it will look like because we have tried it before. I know other sports fans quickly grow tired of being lectured at by long-suffering watchers of professional road cycling, but please believe me when I say that we know what it is like to watch a sport whose competitors have effectively unlimited access to performance enhancing drugs.
It does, of course, lead to improvements in athletic performance, but not stunning ones, usually single digit percentages. From a spectator's point of view this is almost completely meaningless. Watching someone ride up a famous alpine pass in 41 minutes is not noticeably more exciting or entertaining or impressive than watching someone ride up the same pass in 43 minutes. The effect is sure to be the same in other sports, I am certain that someone running the hundred meters in 9.42 seconds is not going to be staggeringly impressive in some unique way that watching Usain Bolt run it in 9.58 wasn't.
It will also lead to another, far more important outcome: people will fucking die. If you encourage young athletes to gamble with their future health for a chance at success and recognition in the present, if you put that risk/reward calculus solely in their hands, then we know from bitter experience that some of them will end up dead well before their time through some combination of poor judgement and bad luck. Tommy Simpson at 29, Marco Pantani at 34, Riccardo Ricco at 40, the list goes on, and that is just the high-profile names from one sport.
The organizers of the Enhanced Games are putting themselves in a cohort with Dana White and his abhorrent Power Slap 'league'. The mind truly boggles at the thought of someone surveying the sponsor-driven capitalist pageantry of the contemporary Olympic games, and the naked corruption of the IOC, only to conclude that the most pressing issue to address is the stringency of the drug testing.