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I’m not going to lie I am extremely interested to see how these games play out! This will be an interesting way to see what the human body can accomplish. I could see something like this gaining tracking because for the most part the PEDs scandals seem to be never ending. Just when we think we have it figured out people biohack a whole knew slew of boosters.

This creates a space for those who are going to push the limits and more importantly to me separates them from those who are clean. In the Enhanced Games there are even a couple of clean athletes participating.

Enhanced Games chiefs are not revealing which performance-enhancing drugs (PEDs) each athlete has taken, but they have released the following;

  • 91% of athletes used testosterone or testosterone esters
  • 79% used human growth hormone 
  • 62% used stimulants 
  • 50% used metabolic modulators
  • 41% used erythropoietin (EPO)
  • 29% used an anabolic steroid agent 
  • 5% used hormonal support therapies

To those who say it’s immoral or wrong look no further than one of the Enhanced Athletes outlooks on it.

BBC Sport asked Enhanced's Australian swimmer James Magnussen, whose remarkably bulked up physique after taking PEDs last year went viral, if he had any concerns.

"I believe that were there to be long-term implications for my health, there surely would have been some short- to medium-term indicators that say 'hey, this isn't tracking properly, you are seeing side effects'. To this point we haven't seen those," the three-time Olympic medallist said.

"As professional athletes, we take risks with our health innately by what we do. There's nothing healthy about training at the peak of your physical ability for 30 hours a week."

He honestly has a good point. With a Byron Hyde from Bangor University in Wales (Bangor has provided not only Nobel Prize winners but fellows of the Royal Society and heads of state.)

Byron Hyde, an honorary research associate at Bangor University, says, external critics "overlook the fact that the Enhanced Games is making obvious what society has always quietly accepted – that most people are willing to watch athletes risk harm when the entertainment is good enough.

"That's something that all sporting bodies should spend more time considering.

"If brain trauma is the potential price of boxing entertainment, why the outrage about pharmaceutical enhancement risks? 

"Research has documented serious physical and psychological harms in many sports. The Enhanced Games just moves the risk threshold further along a spectrum society has already accepted."

Something I have realized over the last decade or so is that we can only do so much to prevent PEDs. People are always going to try and push the body to the limits and these games has created a safe environment to do so. These athletes also get a chance of winning serious money compared to what current athletes get. Swimmings, track stars, etc. they are not like those in professional sports leagues that have these multimillion dollar salaries.

This is a sports event trying to do the right thing for athletes for once.

I think it started tonight but I haven't checked it out

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I wonder where they draw the line as to things like cybernetic enhancements

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I mean right now this is all just pharmaceuticals, so we aren't having to deal with that yet lol

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I'm definitely watching and once gets track will be awesome, how many records broken? Sub 9" 100m dash?

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