​What would you be willing to put in your body? 

​What would you be willing to put in your body? 

Swimmer at the Enhanced Games flexing his arms while standing near weights.

The Enhanced Games last weekend featured athletes who took performance-enhancing drugs.

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At this time last week, I was getting ready to ask people what drugs they were on. I was waiting in a conference room at the Hilton Resorts World Las Vegas. In my hands was a sheet detailing the schedule of the roughly 40 elite athletes participating in the Enhanced Games – an athletic event where using legal performance-enhancing drugs was the name of the game. Soon enough, there would be a media scrum where the press could go …

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