The Enhanced Games: The sporting event that levels the playing field by allowing the use of performance-enhancing drugs

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The Enhanced Games: The sporting event that levels the playing field by allowing the use of performance-enhancing drugs

The Olympic games is taking place this summer in Paris. The Games will see strict testing and enforcement to prevent competitors from using performance-enhancing drugs to gain an unfair advantage. But sometime next year a international sporting event will be held called the Enhanced Games. The event will embrace and allow the use of performance-enhancing drugs. Joining Sean to talk through where the idea for such a event came from and the rational behind it was Christina Smith, Enhanced Games’s Head of Athlete Relations and Bobsleigh Olympian from Canada

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The Enhanced Games: The sporting event that levels the playing field by allowing the use of performance-enhancing drugs