Sean Ingle

We all thought it'd be quite interesting to go along.

We applied for accreditation and we got a reply back saying, sorry, no.

I then got an email from the Enhanced Games people saying it had nothing to do with scrutiny from the Guardian.

We don't care about that.

It's because the Guardian's not big in America.

I pointed out that actually we are one of the sort of bigger news media websites in America and the world without sort of picking up the trumpet and blowing it too loudly.

And at the end of last week, they said, okay, you can actually go.

Their starting point, I guess, is that they believe that lots of elite athletes take banned drugs already.

They're just not caught.

So the Enhanced essentially say, look...

We're honest here.

We're being transparent.

We're not hiding in the shadows.

This is what the athletes are doing.

Whereas more athletes than you think at Olympics and elsewhere are taking these drugs.

They're just doing so secretly and illegally.

When I speak to the World Anti-Doping Agency, they would absolutely dismiss this.

They would say, of course, there are cheats out there that don't get caught.

but it's not the majority.

It's more than we'd like, obviously, but it's still better than a free-for, which is what enhanced games are talking about.