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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Sport
Barney Ronay

Grotesque Enhanced Games removes brain barrier in quest to get running

An illustration of athletes and a podium with a syringe inside
The Enhanced Games has money behind it and athletes interested but no date yet. Illustration: Nathan Daniels

There has always been a fascination with drugs and their effects on the human body, from druid-craft to medical science, to getting lobe-mashed on half a chong of Clarky Cat; from experiments in human perception and opening the third eye, to the possibility of developing slightly musclier upper arms.

In the last few months professional sport has dished up its own vision of extreme permissiveness. There is a good chance you’ve already heard about the Enhanced Games, if only because, despite not actually existing yet, it has a sensationally good public relations arm.

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