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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Sean Ingle in Las Vegas

Enhanced Games claim ‘we changed the world’ but only one record broken and three clean athletes win

Enhanced Games CEO Maximilian Martin bows at the feet of swimmer Kristian Gkolomeev, of Greece, during an award ceremony at the Enhanced Games.
Enhanced Games CEO Maximilian Martin bows at the feet of swimmer Kristian Gkolomeev after the Greek swam the only world record of the meet. Photograph: Jae C Hong/AP

They promised multiple world records. To redefine what the human body is capable of with performance enhancing drugs. Even to change sport for ever. But by the end of the inaugural Enhanced Games in Las Vegas organisers were left with one abiding emotion. Relief.

Only in the final event of the night, after more than five hours of competition, could they lay claim to having gone quicker than an official world record as the Greek swimmer ­Kristian Gkolomeev swam 20.81sec in the men’s 50m freestyle.

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