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?
Have we forgotten how to enjoy sport?
This summer, my seven-year-old son fell in love with cricket.Ignited by a trip to the glitzy Hundred competition in …