Enhanced Games: Why 'crippling injuries' are the least of it
Key takeaways
- Athletes at the Enhanced Games will know the risks — severe injury, even paralysis.
- While supporters say the event signposts a new future for elite sport, the traditional sporting world has slammed it as a dangerous biological experiment.
- Founded by Australian businessman Aron D'Souza, the competition allows athletes to perform without conventional anti-doping rules.
Why this matters: an international story with cross-border implications worth tracking.
Doping in sports is nothing new. Athletes at the Enhanced Games will know the risks — severe injury, even paralysis. But bioethicists are also concerned we're opening the gates to altering our fundamental human biology.
https://p.dw.com/p/5E7qx Doping control is much better now than it was when some athletic records were first set Image: Robert Michael/dpa/picture alliance Advertisement Athletes are limbering up to compete openly with performance-enhancing substances for the first time at the Enhanced Games in — where else? — Las Vegas!
While supporters say the event signposts a new future for elite sport, the traditional sporting world has slammed it as a dangerous biological experiment.