Seb Coe hits out at 'moronic' Enhanced Games

World Athletics president Sebastian Coe says the event that allows performance enhancing drugs is 'bollocks'

29 February 2024; World Athletics President Seb Coe speaking during the official press conference ahead of the World Indoor Athletics Championships 2024 at Emirates Arena in Glasgow, Scotland. Photo by Sam Barnes/Sportsfile

The World Athletics president, ­Sebastian Coe, has hit out at plans for an Enhanced Games, that would allow athletes to take steroids and other performance enhancing drugs, and warned that anyone who competes will be banned for a long time.

Organisers of the Enhanced Games, which has been backed by venture capitalists including the billionaire Peter Thiel, have called their event “the Olympics of the future”. It will include athletics, swimming, weightlifting, gymnastics and combat sports.