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Olympic Champion McEvoy Says Enhanced Games 'Record' Meaningless
- Greek swimmer Kristian Gkolomeev claimed a 50m freestyle world record of 20.89 seconds during the Enhanced Games filming in February 2025 in Greensboro.
- The record attempt followed the Enhanced Games' agenda, allowing performance-enhancing drug use and banned full-body suits illegal under World Aquatics rules since 2010.
- The swim was publicly shared via video and accompanied by a $1 million incentive, while Gkolomeev’s official personal best before was 21.44 seconds.
- Olympic champion Cam McEvoy dismissed Gkolomeev's achievement as invalid, emphasizing that records set while using banned substances or prohibited suits should not be recognized.
- The Enhanced Games face widespread condemnation from governing bodies that describe it as a 'circus, built on short-cuts,' and the event’s first official competition will occur in Las Vegas in May 2026.
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Olympic champion McEvoy says Enhanced Games 'record' meaningless
SYDNEY :Olympic 50 metres freestyle champion Cam McEvoy thinks the record time claimed by Kristian Gkolomeev as part of the Enhanced Games programme, where swimmers are allowed to use banned drugs, is irrelevant to the sport.Enhanced Games organisers announced on Wednesday that Greek Gkolomeev swam the 50m fr
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When Kristian Gkolomeev woke up one morning in February, the last thing he expected to do was break a world record in the pool. The Greek swimmer and four-time Olympian, who finished fifth in the 50-m freestyle in Paris and Tokyo, had come to Greensboro, N.C., to take part in a preview of something called the Enhanced Games, a new start-up that plans to stage an Olympic-style competition permitting the use of most performance-enhancing drugs (PE…
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