'It's bollocks'- World Athletics president Seb Coe condemns doping-friendly Enhanced Games

ATHLETICS 'It's bollocks'- World Athletics president Seb Coe condemns doping-friendly Enhanced Games

Abigael Wafula 05:34 - 01.03.2024

World Athletics president Seb Coe has expressed his contempt for athletes who would be willing to take performance-enhancing drugs in the name of embracing the Enhanced Games.

World Athletics president Seb Coe has insisted that the thought of some world record holders and Olympic athletes wanting to venture into the Enhanced Games does not give him sleepless nights.

Coe expressed contempt at the athletes who wanted to try out pushing their bodies to the limits by using drugs and noted that it is illegal in the world of clean sports.

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He issued a stern warning to athletes who would engage in taking illegal drugs since they would be shown no mercy by being banned by the Athletics Integrity Unit.

Speaking during the pre-race press conference ahead of the World Indoor Championships in Glasgow, Coe said: “It’s bollocks, isn’t it…I can’t really get excited about it.

“If anyone is moronic enough to feel that they want to take part in that and they are from the traditional, philosophical end of our sport, they’ll get banned and they’ll get banned a long time.”

Meanwhile, the Enhanced Games CEO Aron D'Souza earlier this year, admitted that he already has a list of world record holders who are willing to take performance-enhancing drugs to break the limits.

Early this month, D’Souza noted that retired world champion swimmer James Magnussen agreed to take banned performance-enhancing drugs to attempt to beat Cesar Cielo's 15-year-old 50-meter sprint world record for Ksh 155,500,000.

With such a big move, D’Souza believes he is about to join the ranks of the great entrepreneurial disruptors through his Enhanced Games.

"We want athletes who have the potential to break world records and we're going to really focus on those best athletes and pay them well.

"I do have some current national and world record holders who are ready to jump ship because, I'll be honest, it was hard before James because dealing with these athletes who are so cagey, they're so worried about their reputation,” he said at the time during an interview with Reuters.