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Last Updated: February 10, 2024, 00:01 IST
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Retired swimming champion James Magnussen faces potential authorized and moral points after declaring he’ll intentionally dope in an unofficial try to interrupt the 50-meter freestyle world file.
Retired swimming champion James Magnussen faces potential authorized and moral points after declaring he’ll intentionally dope in an unofficial try to interrupt the 50-meter freestyle world file.
Magnussen shall be paid $1 million to make the try on the Enhanced Games, a type of Olympics with out drug testing that has been condemned by the Australian Olympic Committee as “dangerous and irresponsible.”
“I want to approach this the right way,” Magnussen stated Friday in an Instagram put up. “So I want to go to America. I want to get the right advice. I want to take the right supplements. I don’t know much about that world so I want to do my research. I want to have the right team behind me.”
Using efficiency enhancing substances is in opposition to the regulation in lots of nations.
In the United States, many efficiency enhancers are unlawful. Using anabolic steroids with no prescription, for example, can result in a one-12 months jail time period. In an interview final 12 months with CNN, Travis Tygart, the CEO of the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, referred to as the thought of the Enhanced Games “farcical … likely illegal in many (U.S.) states” and “a dangerous clown show, not real sport.”
Magnussen stated he needs to doc his effort on video and “show how it can be done safely, properly and create an athlete that we haven’t seen before.”
Brazil’s Cesar Cielo set the 50 free world file of 20.91 seconds in 2009 in a rubberized go well with that was then banned.
The 32-12 months-previous Magnussen has a private better of 21.52 within the 50 free that he set 11 years in the past. He is a two-time world champion within the 100 free and received Olympics medals in 2012 and 2016.
The time and venue of the Enhanced Games have but to be introduced.
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