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The Guardian - UK
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Sean Ingle in Glasgow

Sebastian Coe vows Enhanced Games athletes would be ‘banned for long time’

Sebastian Coe speaks to the media at a press conference
Sebastian Coe said he ‘can’t really get excited’ about the Enhanced Games, which will allow competitors to take steroids and other performance-enhancers. Photograph: Robert Perry/EPA

The World Athletics president, ­Sebastian Coe, has hit out at plans for an Enhanced Games, that would allow athletes to take steroids and other performance enhancing drugs, and warned that anyone who competes will be banned for a long time.

Organisers of the Enhanced Games, which has been backed by venture capitalists including the billionaire Peter Thiel, have called their event “the Olympics of the future”. It will include athletics, swimming, weightlifting, gymnastics and combat sports.

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