Imagine a medicine cabinet filled with all the banned substances taken by the world’s top athletes in the past year. You would have at your fingertips clostebol, the steroid that led to the suspension of Jannik Sinner, the world number one-ranked tennis player; dehydroepiandrosterone, the hormonal supplement that Paul Pogba, the World Cup-winning footballer, tested positive for; and chlorthalidone, a diuretic used to mask the effects of other drugs, which was found in the urine sample of a Norwegian world trail running champion.
You would also have your pick of the endurance-enhancing drug erythropoietin, or EPO, which has plagued the Kenyan running scene. There would be 19-norsteroids, a type of anabolic agent, and trimetazidine, which helps the heart pump blood more efficiently, including through the bodies of several Chinese swimmers who competed in the Paris Olympics (they blamed contamination from a hotel kitchen). There’d definitely be some cocaine, particularly common among rugby players last year, and plenty of the growth hormone stimulator capromorelin, used to treat weight loss in cats and dogs.
The most recent list by the World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) includes around 400 prohibited substances, although new names are added regularly. Depending on your perspective, you may see that number as evidence of a robust international anti-doping regime — or of its enduring failure.
Aron D’Souza sees it as the reality of modern sport, proof that performance-enhancing drugs are involved in the setting and breaking of all manner of world records. He is planning to stage a kind of steroid Olympics at which performance-enhancing drugs are not only allowed, but encouraged. At the Enhanced Games, which D’Souza envisions as a televised stadium competition, there would be no national teams or four-year competition cycle. For the time being, the proposed events have been limited to swimming, track and field, and strength, and eventually combat sports such as mixed martial arts and boxing.
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