The Enhanced Games promised a revolution. Athletes on supervised drug regimens, unshackled from the anti-doping rules of the Olympics, were going to show us what the human body was truly capable of. The event was transhumanism in practice – a glimpse at humanity’s athletic future.
What it actually delivered was a single world record, broken by a fraction of a second, by the same swimmer who’d already claimed that honour at the pilot event the previous year.
