Olympic great and Australian Sports Commission chief Kieren Perkins says “someone will die” if a multi-sport event that he called “borderline criminal” and which allows banned performance-enhancing substances goes ahead. The Enhanced Games have been proposed by Australian entrepreneur and London-based Aron D’Souza.
FILE - Kieren Perkins of Australia competes in the men’s 1500 meter freestyle final at the 1996 Summer Olympic Games in Atlanta, Friday, July 26, 1996. Perkins won the gold medal. Two-time Olympic swimming gold medalist and Australian Sports Commission chief Perkins says “someone will die” if a multi-sport event that he called “borderline criminal” and which allows banned substances goes ahead.
“Someone will die if we allow that sort of environment to continue to foster and flourish,” Perkins, who won 1,500-meter freestyle gold medals at the 1992 and ’96 Olympics and took silver in 2000, told a sports conference on Tuesday. “I certainly fear for them, and it’s disappointing because of the selfishness that’s involved,” he said. “There’s plenty of historical examples of athletes that don’t survive through their 40s because of taking drugs, whose children are severely disabled, malformed and have had short lives themselves.
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