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Doping for Profit: the Business of Enhanced Sport

Six books on how investor-backed sports ventures monetize controversy, sidestep regulators, and rewrite the ethics of performance enhancement.

Optimized for books about Understand the commercial, ethical, and public-health stakes of a privately funded sporting event that permits performance-enhancing drugs..

6 booksMay 24, 2026
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The Enhanced Games: Like the Olympics, but steroids are allowedbbc.comThe Enhanced Games is here. But forget the ‘sport’ – it has something it wants to...nytimes.comThe Enhanced Games are Sunday. Here's what to know about the controversial eventnpr.org

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