‘It’s a joke’: Enhanced Games swimmer should face life ban, says aquatics chief

• Brent Nowicki said: ‘You cross that bridge, you don’t come back’
• James Magnussen plans to dope to break world record at Games

The Australian world champion swimmer James Magnussen should be banned from sport for life if he deliberately dopes in an attempt to win $1m by trying to break a world record, the World Aquatics chief executive, Brent Nowicki, has said.

The 6ft 7in Magnussen, who won three world titles as well as a 100m freestyle silver at the London 2012 Olympics, has promised to “juice to the gills” when he comes out of retirement for the Enhanced Games next year – and reckons he can break the 50m freestyle world record in six months.

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