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New ‘Enhanced Games’ allow steroids and body-boosted athletes

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Generic image of sports doping equipment from Race to Dope, broadcast on Four Corners.
Generic image of sports doping equipment from Race to Dope, broadcast on Four Corners.

This year will see the world’s greatest athletes compete at the 2024 Paris Olympic Summer Games in July, where the limits of human performance will be tested – faster, higher, stronger. But what if the Olympics allowed athletes to use supplements and steroids without penalty?

The Enhanced Games are due to run in mid-2025, and are already signing up champion athletes willing to dope up and body boost for the big win.

Guest: Catherine Ordway, Sport Integrity Research Lead, University of Canberra 

Producer: Madeleine Grummet

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Doping in Sports, Other Sports, Sports injuries, Sport, Athletics, Marathon
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