April Henning
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first heard Feb 2026
last heard 6 Feb
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The nature of doping, because it is secretive, because it's against the rules, because it has to be done underground on the quiet, the best substances are the ones that we don't know about.
I think it's very fluid.
You do have on the one end the sort of things that are very culturally, socially acceptable.
And what's culturally or socially acceptable varies across time and space.
One of the things that lots of people try to do is break down between natural and artificial.
And I think that that's really a trap.
I mean, I'm sitting in a room surrounded by electricity and LED lights and talking to you across an ocean.
Is any of this natural?
50 years ago, no.
But now this seems totally normal.
So when we think about performance enhancers, the difference between something that's very normal and something that we think of as being extreme changes over time.
What I consider to be the biggest victory of anti-doping has been the cultural acceptance of doping as being a thing that is off limits, as being a thing that if you do, you are a bad person.
That sort of moralization.
This has become so taboo that if you test positive for something, we don't even want to hear your explanation.
The enhanced games are an interesting idea.
I think it's important to distinguish between the broad strokes, philosophical or principled view of these things aren't necessarily bad and sport isn't necessarily pure from the distinct thing that is the enhanced games.
There are things that are prohibited in sport that could potentially be used in ways that are less risky or lower harm that might actually benefit a lot of people.
Lots of things that are prohibited in sport are used as medications for very specific purposes.
But sport has told us that these are very bad things.
Sport sets up a moral framework for how we should be.
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