The Enhanced Games versus the grace of limitations

Jonny Reid  |  Features
Date posted:  22 Oct 2025
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The Enhanced Games versus the grace of limitations

Ben Proud. Photo: @benproudswim on Instagram

British Olympic swimmer Ben Proud has joined the Enhanced Games. It’s a decision, and a potential trajectory, for sport, with significant consequences and challenges for Christians to reflect on.

The Enhanced Games encourages the use of performance-enhancing drugs to break world records. It claims to be the future of sport “on a mission to redefine super humanity through science, innovation and sports.”

Last month, I hurt my back stretching too far for a hockey ball in South Central Division Six, and spent two days struggling to walk. Superhumanity sounds like a good thing to me as I near 40… or does it?

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