Exploring the blurred boundaries between natural and enhanced performance in sports, addressing concerns about doping issues, and emphasizing the essence of discipline, hard work, and health in athletic pursuits.
Billed as a rival to the Olympic Games, the Enhanced Games, set to take place in 2025, is a sporting event with a difference; athletes will be allowed to dope. Ian Sample talks to chief sports writer Barney Ronay about where the idea came from and how it’s being sold as an anti-establishment underdog, and to Dr Peter Angell about what these usually banned substances are, and what they could do to athletes’ bodies. Help support our independent journalism at
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