This is the Guardian. Last summer an eye-catching new sporting event started to generate a buzz.

Businessman Aaron Dususa, launching a new kind of Olympic Games, he's calling it, the

enhanced games for athletes who would otherwise be banned from international

competitions. The enhanced games promised to make sport fairer and more transparent by allowing athletes to take banned performance enhancing drugs.

We're creating a level open playing field.

Sheating is happening at the Olympic Games because they have a highly constrained

environment with an artificial rule set.

And in the enhanced games, we want to do everything out in the open to create a much safer,

fairer, truthful environment. Are you deeply serious about this?

Absolutely.

Among the immediate concerns about safety and the ethical implications

was some pretty hefty skepticism that an event like this could ever actually get off the ground.

You think you can genuinely put on an event where everyone's doped up?

Absolutely.

But this month, Ridley Scott's production company announced a docu series following the games and a casting call for 10 athletes willing to compete.

So today we're asking what's the fascination with the enhanced games all about?

Who will want to take part?

And what could it do to their bodies and to sport if they do?

I'm the Guardian Science Editor, Ian Sample,

and this is Science Weekly.

Barney Roni, you're the Guardian. Weekly.

Barney Rone, you're the Guardian's chief sports writer and you recently wrote about the controversial enhanced games.

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