Sean Ingle

Perhaps things weren't as developed back then.

And they would say, look, we are doing sort of smaller, safer doses.

But WADA would dispute that and say no amount of certain drugs can be safe.

Every athlete is getting a salary.

And Hearts Games say that's between three and five times what they would get, say, if you compete for Team GB.

I've seen some athletes talk about six-figure salaries in US dollar terms.

So that's significant amounts of money.

They also get an appearance fee for racing.

As well as that, for every race, there is a half a million dollar prize pool

with a winner receiving a quarter of a million dollars.

And then if you break a world record in what they call the glamour events, which is the 50 metre freestyle swimming and 100 metre athletic sprint, you also would receive an extra $1 million.

Wow.

Clearly, anything that disrupts what we know as traditional sport, this idea of fair competition, this idea of there are some drugs that you cannot take for either health reasons, for safety reasons, or also just for reasons of unfairness.

Anything that does that is going to raise eyebrows.

And the fact that some of the people behind it, people from Silicon Valley, throw millions and millions of pounds at this also creates huge interest.

One of the key guys is an Australian tech investor called Aaron D'Souza.

He's talked about building a superhumanity through the enhanced games.

He's an Australian law expert, Oxford University graduate, venture capitalist, tech entrepreneur.

He claims that he will reimagine sport in the future, even though he admits that he isn't a big sports fan.

In a recent Vanity Fair interview, he said, I get invited to set a court, one would unbox a football games.