Olympics-style event WITHOUT drug-testing planned as ‘Enhanced Games’ slammed as ‘unsafe joke’
AN OLYMPICS-STYLE competition is in the works which would allow athletes to use performance enhancing drugs.
The crazy idea comes from the mind of Australian entrepreneur Aron D’Souza who is the president of the newly proposed games.
The yearly event has been named the ‘Enhanced Games’ and D’Souza is hoping to hold the first one in December of next year.
It has been born out of a group of scientists, doctors and athletes who have already expressed interest in joining the games.
The Enhanced Games will feature no drug testing and try to push the boundaries of what is capable within athletics.
Ausralia’s Olympic head, Anna Meares, has already spoken out against the proposed games.
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The former Olympic gold medalist slammed the idea, she said: “It’s a joke, to be honest. Unfair, unsafe — I just don’t think this is the right way to go about sport.”
But D’Souza is adamant that the Enhanced Games will work and that it is the right direction for the sport.
He told the Australian Associated Press: “Athletes are adults and they have a right to do with their body what they wish - my body, my choice; your body, your choice,
“And no government, no paternalistic sports federation, should be making those decisions for athletes - particularly around products that are FDA regulated and approved.”
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The games are expected to cover five different sporting categories with track and field, gymnastics, swimming, weightlifting and combat sports all included.
D’Souza is looking to smash world records and thinks that the new games would have further impact outside of sport too.
He said: “It’s not just a question of can we break the nine-second 100 metre, I am sure we will,
“I want to see a 40, 50, 60-year-old break world records because performance medicine is the rod to anti-ageing, it’s the route to the fountain of youth.
“Nothing will improve the productivity of our society more than preventing ageing. It sounds like science fiction now but we live in the future, look at the rise of artificial intelligence and other technologies.”