The Enhanced Games are a dangerous concept set to kick off next year with big prize money
James Magnussen of Australia celebrates winning the Swimming Men's Freestyle 100m Final on day thirteen of the 15th FINA World Championships at Palau Sant Jordi in Barcelona. Photograph: Quinn Rooney/Getty Images
So far, the concept has not had much encouraging traction despite being sold as “The Olympics of the Future” with World Athletics president Sebastien Coe expressing the view of most governing bodies when he called the games “b*****cks” at the recent Indoor World Championships in Glasgow.
Between 1987 and 1990, 20 young, healthy Belgian and Dutch cyclists died from nocturnal heart attacks, while in their beds recovering from the day’s racing or training. The image of coaches and team doctors shaking cyclists awake in the middle of the night to ride on a stationary bike to prevent a fatal heart attack remains a tragic and sobering image.
D’Souza is smart and well connected. He sees the International Olympic Committee as corrupt and greedy and wants to eradicate Wada, which he calls an “anti-science police force for the IOC”. Weightlifting too would be jaw dropping. The poundage they lift is already comically heavy and while a televised in-competition death might be the epitome of dreadful taste, the Enhanced Games would sell it as a 21st century example of personal choice.
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