The Enhanced Video games, the primary sporting competitors formally authorizing doping, happened final weekend with 42 extremely paid athletes. Financed by tech billionaires like Peter Thiel, this occasion promised a bathe of world data due to substances banned in conventional sport. The organizers even inspired this follow, believing that “it’s not the consumption of those substances that’s harmful in itself, however their misuse”.
A single document for €1 million
Regardless of an XXL gadget and thousands and thousands invested, the present got here near humiliation. A single world document fell: the 50 meter freestyle of the Greek Christian Golomev, improved by solely 7 hundredths, incomes him a bonus of €1 million. This document will clearly not be permitted by the official authorities.
The opposite performances upset. Australian James Magnussen, who had promised to “cost to the core”, completed final within the 100 meter freestyle. The peak of irony: within the dash, the non-doped athletes gained all of the occasions, relegating Frenchman Mouhamadou Fall to fourth place. The latter now dangers sanctions from the French anti-doping authorities.