Emma Gillespie

Yeah, it's funny you mentioned the Olympics, Billie, because it feels like we've been waiting as long as a four year wait between Olympics for these games to actually come to fruition.

But this is a competition that was founded by an Aussie, actually, a Melbourne born entrepreneur whose name is Aaron D'Souza.

And basically his concept and what played out this week was that athletes would be given access to performance enhancing drugs and

such as testosterone, human growth hormones, anabolic steroids, under medical supervision to test how far humans could be pushed forward.

in terms of success, speed, pace, weight.

And the idea was that if we let athletes dope, they could smash all these world records.

Now, the Enhanced Games had a bit of a trimmed down version of that early vision, and it included events across swimming, athletics, and weightlifting.

So just those three categories.

But the prize money on offer was really the big hook and the selling point of these games.

You know, apart from the fascination with doping, athletes were promised a million dollar bonus for breaking world records.

That's US dollars.

And, you know, the minimum prize for competing, even if you came last, you'd still go home with about $50,000.

This is a completely commercial venture and just how commercial we'll get into later because some of the criticism that's been aimed at the Enhanced Games has been to do with this very fact that actually the business behind it is selling its own supplements, steroids, injections, all sorts of things online and that this has kind of been a marketing vehicle towards that business.

Is it because they're a company selling that?

Well, really the initial wave of concern and the biggest issue comes down to athletes' safety and wellbeing.

So we've heard from just about every global sporting body you can think of who have condemned the enhanced games really over this debate of ethics and health.

So...

As I mentioned, that primary concern really is about physical well-being.

These are banned substances.

We're not talking about illicit drugs, illegal drugs.