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Enhanced Games: Did controversial Las Vegas debut land or underwhelm, and what comes next? | Athletics News | Sky Sports

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Christian Angermayer co-founded the Enhanced Games to pit PED-using athletes against each other in Las Vegas. Organisers once envisioned thousands of competitors, but only 42 athletes were given bios on the official website. The event drew scrutiny for offering banned competitors a stage, with one world record set but disallowed under international anti-doping rules.

Greek swimmer Kristian Gkolomeev clocked 20.81 seconds in the men's 50m freestyle, edging Australian Cameron McEvoy's legal record by 0.07 seconds, but the result won't appear in any official record book. Meanwhile Fred Kerley, Tristan Evelyn, and Hunter Armstrong won clean events in the pool and on the track, each walking away with $250,000. Australian sprinter McEvoy dismissed the result on social media: