With lower than three months to go till the inaugural Enhanced Video games on U.S. Memorial Day weekend in Las Vegas, the doping-encouraged startup is placing the ultimate touches on its males’s and girls’s 100m rosters.
On Friday, the league had one other American sprinter commit… by going below the needle for an Enhanced Video games tattoo.
Taylor Anderson, a 31-year-old sprinter from Minnetonka, Minn., mentioned her resolution to get the Enhanced-brand tattoo was to commemorate this second in her life.
“I got here out of retirement to hitch the league and do one thing most individuals can’t even do,” Anderson mentioned in a video posted to social media. “Come Could, we’re getting that milli, child.”
Eternally Enhanced. ♾️
Enhanced athlete Taylor Anderson makes her resolution everlasting forward of the Video games.
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— Enhanced Video games (@enhanced_games) March 12, 2026
The Video games have promised a $1,000,000 bonus to any male or feminine sprinter who breaks the 100m world document below the usage of performance-enhancing medicine. The ladies’s world document presently stands at 10.49 seconds, set by the late American sprinter Florence Griffith Joyner in 1988.
Anderson, nonetheless, has by no means run below 11 seconds for the space. She holds a private better of 11.20 seconds from 2021 and has by no means represented Crew USA at a serious international championship such because the Olympic Video games or the World Athletics Championships.
Her solely senior worldwide look got here on the 2023 Pan American Video games in Santiago, the place she competed for Crew USA within the ladies’s 4x100m relay.
Anderson joins 4 beforehand introduced feminine sprinters within the league: Denau McFarlane, Jasmine Abrams, Shania Collins and Shockoria Wallace. Among the many group, Anderson seems to be the one athlete thus far with everlasting Enhanced Video games ink. The tattoo, which she signifies is her fifth, is positioned on her left forearm.
The controversial startup, backed by U.S. billionaire Peter Thiel and Donald Trump Jr., is scheduled to stage its first occasion on Could 24, 2026. Organizers have promised a complete prize purse of US$500,000, with $250,000 awarded to every occasion winner.
Up to now, the confirmed monitor occasions embrace the boys’s and girls’s 100m, with the potential addition of the boys’s 110m hurdles and girls’s 100m hurdles, although no hurdlers have publicly dedicated.
The undertaking has additionally attracted consideration outdoors the game. Actor and Wrexham A.F.C. co-owner Rob McElhenney is reportedly hooked up to provide a movie across the occasion.
