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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Sport
Paul MacInnes

Enhanced Games are dangerous and must be stopped, says Wada head

The Australian swimmer and former Olympian James Magnussen photographed in a swimming pool in Sydney, June 2024
The Australian swimmer and former Olympian James Magnussen will compete in the Enhanced Games. Photograph: Daniel Boud/The Guardian

The head of the World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) has called on the body’s American counterparts to act to stop the Enhanced Games, describing the new event – which allows athletes to take performance-enhancing drugs (PEDs) in competition – as “dangerous” and “irresponsible”.

Witold Banka said the world’s anti-doping regimes had to be “very united” in their opposition to the Enhanced Games and said the United States Anti-Doping Agency (Usada) had a responsibility to push against it. Banka went on to criticise the anti-doping regime in the US, at a time when the government there has withheld crucial funding from Wada’s operations.

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