‘Steroids are safer than alcohol': Enhanced Games founder vs former Olympic swimmer
It's being billed as the Olympics of the future.
A juiced-up version of 'faster, higher, stronger.'
The Enhanced Games doesn't just allow the use of performance enhancing drugs... it actively encourages it.
Is it setting a dangerous precedent? And just because the drug use is out in the open - does that make it ok?
It's up for debate here on Counterpoints with me, Melinda Nucifora.
The pursuit of sporting glory is older than the ancient Olympics themselves. That drive, that desire to be 'the best'... But at what cost?
Would you risk your health? What about your reputation?
The Enhaned Games is flipping the traditional sporting narrative on its head. Instead of drug-taking ending your professional career - what if was just the beginning?
The financial muscle behind next year's Enhanced Games want athletes - and viewers - to embrace what it's calling 'superhumanity'... A 'revolution in sport and science.'
Strip away the marketing spin - and you're left with a celebration of drug-taking athletes breaking records which were set by clean sportspeople.
Gold medals aren't won... they're earned. But at the Enhaned Games - who's earning them? The athlete, or the scientist?
Our panel go head-to-head on Counterpoints to answer:
Let the games begin.
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