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Ryan Bridge: Enhanced Games just a bit of fun · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: Some guy won a million bucks for swimming fifty meters
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  Speaker 1: in a pool with a wetsuit on.
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  Speaker 2: Calm Proud record record Christian column of twenty point eight one.
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  Speaker 2: We've got a two million dollar man.
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  Speaker 1: He wins a million dollars last year.
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  Speaker 2: He comes to the Hands Games and he sets it again.
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  Speaker 1: There you go, I know, right, awesome. Should be stoked
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  Speaker 1: to the guy. He's Greek, he's an athlete, he broke
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  Speaker 1: a world record. Problem is he was taking part in
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  Speaker 1: the Performance enhancing Drugs Games, the Enhanced Games, and was
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  Speaker 1: wearing a wetsuit that was not legit, Like you wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: get away with wearing it at the Olympics. But what
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  Speaker 1: I can't understand is the backlash, the tutting from the
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  Speaker 1: medical professionals and the sporting bodies. They're upset for two reasons. One,
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  Speaker 1: these athletes are in their woods, potentially putting themselves at
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  Speaker 1: risk medically long term. Two, it undermines traditional non doping sports. Well,
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  Speaker 1: on the first point, isn't that a bit rich? Isn't
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  Speaker 1: it a bit hypocritical for the medical fraternity who relies
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  Speaker 1: on medical trials of patients with sometimes unknown long term
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  Speaker 1: consequences and risks to be tut tutting here. This Greek
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  Speaker 1: guy just made a million bucks. That's money he can
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  Speaker 1: feed his family with and change his life. Are we
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  Speaker 1: really going to judge? And as for the sport argument,
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  Speaker 1: name me a sport that doesn't result in long term
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  Speaker 1: injuries or medical problems down the line, except for maybe
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  Speaker 1: competitive walking, especially at a professional level. Is boxing one
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  Speaker 1: hundred percent safe? Can rugby claim no concussions? How many
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  Speaker 1: horse riders do you know are in wheelchairs? I'm not
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  Speaker 1: saying these things are wrong or there's anything wrong with
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  Speaker 1: it about all wrong with sport being dangerous in general,
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  Speaker 1: it's human nature. We love challenging ourselves and sometimes that
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  Speaker 1: challenge can lead to damage or death, where thrill seekers
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  Speaker 1: essentially aren't we us humans? The enhanced games are basically
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  Speaker 1: that on stef teroids. Literally, if you don't like it,
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  Speaker 1: don't watch it, but don't judge a guy banking a
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  Speaker 1: million bucks for going for a swim. For more from
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