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Retired swimming champ James Magnussen faces potential legal and ethical issues after declaring he will deliberately dope in an unofficial attempt to break the 50-meter freestyle world record. Magnussen will be paid $1 million to make the attempt at the Enhanced Games which are a sort of Olympics without drug testing that has been condemned by the Australian Olympic Committee as "dangerous and irresponsible." Using performance enhancing substances is against the law in many countries.
