When Sport Crosses the Line (ft. James Witts, Author of DOPE)

Damien, Jake. Well, here we go with another episode of High Performance and this month it's the Enhanced Games. And so we thought we would have a bit of a conversation about, I guess, doping in sport, but with the umbrella view of what happens in life where you start out in your career, regardless of whether it's sport or something else, with a really kind of fixed set of rules that you want to operate by. And then what happens to your moral compass as your career progresses that means those things get impacted.

And we've got a really cool guest we're about to hear from, right? Yeah, so you used the phrase there, Jay, the moral compass. I think that's really what this this episode is about, about how how do you keep your moral compass pointing to a true north in a world that will constantly try and take you off course. And I was lucky enough to speak to James Wittz, he's a, he's a brilliant journalist that's written a book that comes out called Dope.

And it's about the culture that surrounds elite sport where young athletes often get tempted to look for shortcuts, look for hacks, look for a quick route to the top that gets them onto that podium. But it also involves injecting or imbibing different substances that are illegal and I wanted to talk around how can you keep your moral compass true. Great. Well we'll hear from James in just a couple of moments.

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