Olympic great Perkins warns doping-allowed Enhanced Games are 'borderline criminal'

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Olympic great and Australian Sports Commission chief Kieren Perkins says “someone will die” if a multi-sport event that he called “borderline criminal” and which allows banned performance-enhancing substances goes ahead

. The Enhanced Games have been proposed by Australian entrepreneur and London-based Aron D’Souza, with Australia’s dual world champion swimmer and triple Olympic medalist James Magnussen the first athlete to publicly pledge to compete at the 2025 event. D’Souza has promised the retired Magnussen $1 million if he can break the world 50-meter freestyle record after taking performance-enhancing substances.

“There’s plenty of historical examples of athletes that don’t survive through their 40s because of taking drugs, whose children are severely disabled, malformed and have had short lives themselves.” Perkins, a three-time Olympian who broke 11 world records and earned the nickname “Superfish” in the 1990s, said questions should be asked about the commercial objectives of the organizers and pharmaceutical companies involved.

 

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