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“I want the body of a 20-year-old and the wisdom of a 33-year-old.” So speaks 33-year-old James Magnussen, former champion swimmer and Olympic medallist, about his goal for the Enhanced Games. With the Olympics next week, the Enhanced Games is offering something else: a quixotic athletics competition that’s billed as a game-changing experiment in human endurance. The difference is that it will not follow the prescriptions of the World Anti-Doping Agency, which is to say that doping will be allowed — read: encouraged — for the sake of showmanship.
