Billionaires want to offer a format like the Olympics with the “Enhanced Games”. However, with permitted doping. This sparks outrage.
Setting world records using doping substances is the goal of the “Enhanced Games”. The project is met with vehement rejection in world sport and by anti-doping organizations. The National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA) considers the idea of these games without borders to be “misleading and wrong,” it said when asked by the German Press Agency. “Enhanced Games” means something like improved or expanded games.
The promise of safe and fair sport by the organizers through “experimental doping” to athletes is “a dangerous fallacy”. Young people are specifically encouraged to harm their own health. “From NADA’s perspective, this is ethically and morally absolutely reprehensible,” the agency said.
Founders want to entice people with starting money of $100,000
She believes that recognition of world records set in the planned “Enhanced Games” is out of the question: “Only records that are achieved in compliance with the internationally recognized anti-doping regulations count.”
The founders of the “Enhanced Games” project, a number of billionaires around the Australian entrepreneur Aron Ping D’Souza, want to attract athletes to take part with an entry fee of 100,000 US dollars and a world record bonus of one million US dollars.
The World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) also considers the “Enhanced Games” to be a dangerous and irresponsible concept. “The health and well-being of athletes is WADA’s top priority,” the world agency said. “This event would clearly endanger both by promoting the abuse of powerful substances and methods that should only be prescribed for therapeutic needs and under the supervision of responsible medical professionals.”