The "Enhanced Games"

I've got to admit to a certain ambivalence about the "Enhanced Games."

I have no interest in any "professional" sports.  I tend to agree that it is basically forty people on the field in desperate need of a rest, being watched by forty million people on the couch in desperate need of exercise.

Since pretty much all adult sport, even the Olympics, is now "professional," I have a hard time taking *any* statements about the "purity" of sport seriously.

However, I do see the health dangers of declaring "open season" on doping and other forms of extreme training regimes.  Only a few Americans are going to make enough money off of the "Enhanced Games" to pay for their medical bills later in life, and those of us in countries with proper medical systems are going to be paying for a number of people who *thought* that they would become famous (and mostly won't).

Overall, it seems to be a very weird experiment in terms of different types of risk analysis.  (Including what *any* kind of  participation could do for or to your reputation.)