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Australia a fruitful realm for Enhanced Games athletes

Enhanced Games' president says Australia is a "fruitful realm" for athletes potentially joining James Magnussen in competing at the event with no drug testing.

AAP

'I'm on a mission to build a new superhumanity': Founder of the enhanced games on the future of dope-legal racing

The Enhanced Games are an alternative Olympics where doping will be encouraged. Chris Marshall-Bell grills the founder on the risks

Cycling Weekly

Enhanced Games: meet the swimmer who thinks athletes should be allowed to dope

A new sports competition plans to encourage athletes to use performance enhancing drugs. William Hosie chats with the Enhanced Games poster boy, ex-top swimmer James Magnusen

Evening Standard

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Enhanced Games to sign Olympians post-Paris: D'Souza

Australians could be among athletes signing up for the pro-drug Enhanced Games after the Paris Olympics.

AAP

German billionaire behind Enhanced Games is dinosaur egg-collecting film producer

Christian Angermayer is a psychedelics mogul who thinks the world is ready for an Olympic-style games featuring juiced-up athletes.

Fortune

‘Imagine if a 60-year-old broke Usain Bolt’s record’: the story behind the Enhanced Games, the Olympics where everyone dopes

It’s got billionaires, world champions and director Ridley Scott’s company on board. But would an athletics competition where taking drugs is encouraged put the honesty back in sport – or cause rifts, risks and addictions?

The Guardian - UK

‘I want to see 60-year-olds breaking world records’: Welcome to the Olympics with NO drug testing

Seb Coe says ‘it’s a joke, unfair, and unsafe’. The head of US anti-doping calls it ‘a dangerous clown show’. Lawrence Ostlere talks to Dr Aron D’Souza, the Australian lawyer who wants to launch the Enhanced Games, a controversial Olympic-style mega-event in which doping is not just allowed but actively…

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Enhanced games could exploit young athletes says sport medicine federation

The Enhanced Games would allow athletes to use banned substances to boost athletic abilities

The Independent UK

Enhanced Games Chief Says '50 To 100' Paris Olympians Ready To Sign Up

Between 50 and 100 athletes set to compete at the Paris Olympics are "in the sign-up process" for the inaugural Enhanced Games, where doping will be allowed, the event's chief claims.

International Business Times

Rob Mcelhenney To Produce Documentary On Controversial Enhanced Games Event

Rob McElhenney to produce a documentary on the controversial Enhanced Games competition for athletes using performance-enhancing drugs.

Top News

Enhanced Games Head Rebuts Biden: Performance Enhancements in Sports Are 'Inevitable'

Just stop it. Let elite athletes honestly choose to use performance enhancements or not.

Reason

Enhanced Games boss slams Olympic 'smear campaign'

The Australian entrepreneur behind a sports event with no drug testing has hit back at Kieren Perkins, saying he's part of an Olympics smear campaign.

AAP

Perkins warns of athlete deaths in Enhanced Games

Aussie swimming legend Kieren Perkins says allowing athletes to take drugs will end in disaster, warning someone will die if the Enhanced Games go ahead.

AAP

The week in audio: Who Replaced Avril Lavigne? Joanne McNally Investigates; The Sports Agents; Diving With A Purpose – review

Joanne McNally has fun with a pop-world conspiracy theory; Gabby Logan and Mark Chapman show their tougher sides; plus, an uplifting hunt for a shipwreck

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Aussie swim star to compete at drug-taking Games

Retired Australian swimmer James Magnussen is the first person to publicly pledge to compete at an Olympic-styled event for drug-taking athletes.

AAP

Aussie athletes keen to compete at drug-taking Games

Australians including an Olympic gold medallist are among more than 900 athletes keen to compete at Enhanced Games, a multi-sport event with no drug testing.

The Conversation

The Enhanced Games: letting athletes use drugs could lead to worse problems than cheating

What would sport be like if performance-enhancing drugs were allowed? How fast could the fastest athletes run? How high could they jump? How heavy could they lift? The Enhanced Games seeks to answer these questions by removing all restrictions on doping.

The Guardian - UK

Digested week: Sunak hit by seven-year hitch on Brexit vote anniversary

PM remains tight-lipped on EU referendum fallout; songs to play at my funeral; and a steeplechase for dope smokers

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The Guardian - UK

The Enhanced Games – a drugs Olympics where cheaters can prosper

Entrepreneur Aron D’Souza has a plan to host ‘science-enhanced superheroes’ at an event which encourages doping

Reason

The Enhanced Olympics: Drugs Welcome!

At last, a chance to watch elite athletes openly taking advantage of modern science.

Daily Mirror

Enhanced Games to allow drug-taking and has 'support' of athletes and doctors

The eye-catching idea would see competition in athletics, aquatics, gymnastics, strength and combat sports and involve no drug-testing in pursuit of world records

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