The inaugural Enhanced Games, held in Las Vegas in May, allowed participating athletes to use performance-enhancing drugs. The Games' founder, Aron D'Souza, claimed before the start: "We're going to obliterate the world records… it will be a watershed moment in the history of humanity -- a new generation of superheroes."
The Games failed to live up to Mr D'Souza's hype. Only one participant broke an official world record: the Greek swimmer Kristian Gkolomeev, whose time for the 50-metre freestyle beat the mark by less than one-tenth of a second. Even then, it may not have been performance-enhancing drugs that made the difference, because Gkolomeev wore a high-tech swimsuit banned under World Aquatics rules. Three athletes who said they were not taking any performance-enhancing drugs won their events anyway.
