Ekdahl David, Krieger Jörg
Department of Public Health, Faculty of Health, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark.
Lillehammer Olympic and Paralympic Study Center, Innlandet Business School, Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences, Elverum, Norway.
Front Sports Act Living. 2024 Oct 16;6:1490651. doi: 10.3389/fspor.2024.1490651. eCollection 2024.
The Enhanced Games, a privately funded sporting megaevent aspiring to rival the Olympic Games, have garnered significant media attention since its public inception in 2023. This attention has primarily been driven by the Enhanced Games' embrace of performance-enhancing drugs. Lost in the public fixation on the event's green-lit drug-use, however, is the fact that the Enhanced Games distance themselves from current Olympic standards in numerous ways beyond drug-policies alone. More precisely, the Enhanced Games promote themselves as a more economically and ecologically sustainable alternative to the Olympics, as well as a megaevent that aims to put athletes and their safety front-and-center. With an eye towards current Olympic standards, we suggest that closer examination of the Enhanced Games offers novel perspectives on the future of the Olympics and global sporting events more broadly.
强化运动会是一项由私人资助的大型体育赛事，旨在与奥运会竞争，自2023年公开亮相以来，已引起媒体的广泛关注。这种关注主要是由强化运动会对提高成绩药物的接受所驱动的。然而，公众对该赛事批准使用药物的关注掩盖了一个事实，即强化运动会在许多方面背离了当前的奥运会标准，而不仅仅是药物政策方面。更确切地说，强化运动会将自己宣传为奥运会在经济和生态方面更具可持续性的替代方案，以及一项旨在将运动员及其安全置于首位的大型赛事。着眼于当前的奥运会标准，我们认为，对强化运动会进行更深入的审视，能为奥运会乃至更广泛的全球体育赛事的未来提供新的视角。
