World Athletics president Sebastian Coe criticises ‘moronic’ Enhanced Games
- Athletes taking part will ‘get banned for a long time’
- ‘We can’t just sit there,” Coe says of selling athletics to young fans
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.
