Look, when it comes to sporting disgraces, you’re right: the pickings are singularly rich right now – and I don’t just mean LIV golf, organised and funded by a murderer. (Don’t get me started – as I have been known to go on for some time.)

On a good day, I can think of nothing more grotesque than the vision of two former footballers in their late 30s/40s like Sonny Bill Williams and Paul Gallen beating the bejesus out of each other, trying to inflict more brain damage on each other, all as the crowd roars its approval. (Who promotes this crap? Who watches it?)

But, OK, you got me. Today is a bad day.

Because today they announced the whole Enhanced Games thing, where a particular kind of athlete – cheats, drugged to the eyeballs and worse, with flecks of urine in their steroids – will go up against each other in some comp in Las Vegas next year, covering swimming, athletics and weightlifting.

The star of their show will be our own one-time hero, James Magnussen, a good man gone wrong.

James, James, James. I reckon I speak on behalf of most of the nation when I say ... WTAF? What are you doing?

Australian James Magnussen features in the new Enhanced Games documentary.Credit: Enhanced Games

You have the honour of being an Australian Olympian, heir to a legacy that boasts names such as Boy Charlton, Murray Rose, Dawn Fraser, Shane Gould, Kieren........

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