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The head of the World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) has called on the body\u2019s American counterparts to act to stop the Enhanced Games, describing the new event \u2013 which allows athletes to take performance-enhancing drugs (PEDs) in competition \u2013 as \u201cdangerous\u201d and \u201cirresponsible\u201d.<\/p>\n
Witold Banka said the world\u2019s anti-doping regimes had to be \u201cvery united\u201d in their opposition to the Enhanced Games and said the United States Anti-Doping Agency (Usada) had a responsibility to push against it. Banka went on to criticise the anti-doping regime in the US, at a time when the government there has withheld crucial funding from Wada\u2019s operations.<\/p>\n
\u201cSometimes we don\u2019t know what to say about this ridiculous idea, because from the ethical point of view, from the moral point of view, how is it possible that people come to agree to compete, taking all these prohibited substances?\u201d Banka said. \u201cIt\u2019s completely against everything that we are doing. It\u2019s very dangerous. I hope it will not happen, although there are quite important and rich people who are sponsors of this irresponsible event.\u201d…<\/p>\n
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The head of the World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) has called on the body\u2019s American counterparts to act to stop the Enhanced Games, describing the new event \u2013 which allows athletes to take performance-enhancing drugs (PEDs) in competition \u2013 as \u201cdangerous\u201d and \u201cirresponsible\u201d. Witold Banka said the world\u2019s anti-doping regimes had to be \u201cvery united\u201d in … Enhanced Games are dangerous and must be stopped, says Wada head<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iz_medija"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adas.org.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adas.org.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adas.org.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adas.org.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adas.org.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16619"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.adas.org.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16788,"href":"https:\/\/www.adas.org.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16619\/revisions\/16788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adas.org.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adas.org.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adas.org.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}