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‘History will prove me right’: Inside Magnussen’s Enhanced Games gamble

James Magnussen is sitting shirtless beside a luxury Las Vegas hotel pool, veins protruding from his forearms, soaking in the Nevada sun and completely comfortable that he has made the right call.

“History will prove me right,” Magnussen says behind oversized black sunglasses. “I’m very confident in that. People will look back and go, ‘oh, it was ahead of the curve’.

Two years after declaring he would “juice to the gills” and join the world’s most controversial new sporting venture, the former Australian swimming star is days away from competing at the inaugural Enhanced Games – a billionaire-backed event hoping to one day become, quite literally, the Olympics on steroids.

"The Doping Olympics": a look inside the Enhanced Games

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At the inaugural Enhanced Games this weekend, something unprecedented is taking place; professional athletes from around the world will be encouraged to swim, lift, and sprint with the aid of performance enhancing drugs.

The competition — nicknamed the 'Doping Olympics' — has provoked enormous controversy in the world of sport. Enhanced runs counter to the many athletic organisations who have spent decades prioritising a crackdown on performance enhancing drugs. Many in the sporting world say that a competition that endorses doping will normalise unfair and possibly dangerous drug use. But supporters argue that the competition will facilitate the safe, open use of drugs that are often taken unsafely and without medical supervision at competitions elsewhere.

‘We’re the good ones. I really believe that’: meet the German billionaire behind the Enhanced Games

Having unearthed the world’s largest triceratops head, Christian Angermayer knows where to find treasure among the dirt. Step forward Sunday’s inaugural ‘Steroid Olympics’ promoting PEDs to the masses

Before we get to doping and psychedelics, arguably the most controversial man in sport is discussing how he came to own the largest triceratops skull ever discovered. And how he plans to install it in his London apartment.

So how much did you pay for it, I ask Christian Angermayer, the German billionaire who has made fortunes from biotech, bitcoin and psychedelics and now intends to do the same again using – and many believe abusing – sport. “Not a lot, because I find them.”

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