EPISODE · Dec 12, 2025 · 33 MIN
The Enhanced Games! Allowing Athletes to Take Performance Enhancing Drugs! Transparency or Cheating? Should the Records Count? Is A Nation of Gym Cycles & Ozempic Ready to Accept this in Sports?
from The Best Paragraph I've Read... · host Zac & Don
The Best Paragraph I've Read:"With investors that include venture capitalist PeterThiel and Donald Trump Jr., Enhanced is attempting to push sports into a world of logical and physical extremes, unencumbered by the rules, regulations or doping controls of traditional competition. They plan to host their ownOlympic-style competition in Las Vegas next year with a roster that already includes the British swimmer Ben Proud, who won silver at Paris 2024, and U.S. sprinter Fred Kerley, a multiple world champion. T he World Anti-Doping Agency has called it a “dangerous and irresponsible” undertaking. Seb Coe, the president of World Athletics, dismissed any participants as “moronic.” But organizers argue that they aresimply more transparent than the regular Olympics—and finally paying athletes what they deserve."This paragraph comes from the Wall Street Journal. The article is titled: "Faster, Higher, Stronger-and Full of Drugs. The Billionare Quest to Hack Sports." The article is written by Joshua Robinson. You can read the full article here.Zac & Don discuss The Enhanced Games and their desire to be transparent about which athletes are taking drugs to improve their performance. They wonder if this approach is honest, sad, or still just cheating.
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