Who really wins if the Enhanced Games go ahead? – podcast

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Billed as a rival to the Olympic Games, the Enhanced Games, set to take place in 2025, is a sporting event with a difference; athletes will be allowed to dope. Ian Sample talks to chief sports writer Barney Ronay about where the idea came from and how it’s being sold as an anti-establishment underdog, and to Dr Peter Angell about what these usually banned substances are, and what they could do to athletes’ bodies

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Clips: Talk TV, News Nation, Inside with Brett Hawke, ESPN

Read Barney Ronay’s opinion piece on the Enhanced Games

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