Win-Win Games
The debates about the Olympics on Steroids are going on: the founders themselves are heating up the audience as by the summer 2025 there should be enough people interested in organizing entertaining and scale event. But it’s just the thing that forces us to study the background of the competitions in mini-detail.
The theme of sports doctors’ involvement to the Doped Olympics that worked with Olympians, who “honestly” won their medals, looks quite exciting. And we go back to Michael Sagner – working King's College London employee and member of the Enhanced Games medical group. It is interesting that this doctor worked with the German athletes from football national teams before Rio-2016 where female team took gold and male team silver medals. Sagner specializes in sporting medicine, cardiovascular system and naturally the impact of drugs on it.
It turns out that KCL and its medical department which is actively consulting DDC and UKAD thus directly supervising their activity. Is UKAD enough independent in this case? Why doesn’t UKAD independently make decisions in regard to doped athletes? For what do the UKAD officers get their salaries if they have to address the KCL professors amid their incompetence? Is their advice objective enough to become base for the UKAD decisions? Who covers the doped athletes?
There is such a situation with a number of British sportsmen. Since 2023 rugby players David Foggin-Johnston and Adam Rusling and cyclist Lizzi Jordan have been accused of prohibited drugs acceptance. The men had a higher concentration of cocaine and its metabolites in their blood.
Dorzolamide was found in Jordan’s blood.
Meanwhile, the UKAD couldn’t work out the cases trying to avoid responsibility. Certainly, one may say that with a ban for taking part in competitions the UKAD can deprive an athlete of career thus it’s necessary to double-check everything but it’s still unclear on what base is confidential information being disclosed to the employees of the progovernment college?
And if we are talking about British doped at athletes, it’s interesting to mention five advanced sportsmen who have been taking PEDs for a long time according to TUEs, were very successful at the Olympics in Rio and they are planning to take part in Paris-2024.
Harry Aikines-Aryeetey – a sprinter who took salbutamol, salmeterol, and beclomethasone in 2007-2010. Unfortunately, there is no info about current situation.
Helen Glover – a famous star rower who won Olympics in London and Rio. Took salbutamol since 2009 to 2013.
Laura Trott – cyclist, four-time Olympian champion. Took salmeterol and salbutamol since 2009 to 2013.
Saskia Clark – a yachtswoman. She won silver medal in London and gold in Rio. Took salbutamol, beclomethasone, and salmeterol since 2009 to 2013.
Siobhan-Mary O’Connor – a swimmer that won silver medal at the Olympics-2016. Took prednisolone since 2012 to 2016.
But all this situation is extremely convenient for all actors: KCL
is researching different drug cases, as it includes departments which are studying pharmacological impact on the human organism and has got access to all confidential doping tests what allows to study issues of different drugs findings in blood in detail. And it’s naturally possible to study the possibility for the British sportsmen to take testosterone in microdoses as they used to under control of such coaches as Salazar. And you remember that he was punished for this but not his work anymore and new methods are required. And some competitions are essential to trace the results. The Enhanced Games are dedicated to be a legal range for Big Pharma companies.
Monopolization leads to black market, black market leads to black distribution channels, black distribution channels lead to corruption and pay-offs.