This year, retired swimmer Kristian Gkolomeev, alone in a pool, completed the 50m free in 20s89. He said he broke César Cielo’s world record (20s91) “reaching a new level of performance that the world can now see that is possible.”
The 31 -year -old Greek did this time, but the rest is a lie. Welcome to the circus of horrors called the doped athletes’ Olympic Games.
The competition will be in 2026, in Las Vegas, and the bizarre concept is to allow swimming athletes, athletics and weight lifting to use substances prohibited by the World Anti -doping Agency (Wada) in exchange for a lot of money.
This week, organizers released the feat of Gkolomeev, held in February especially to promote the games.
The former athlete-the best time was 21s44-began to take prohibited substances weeks earlier and used a technological swimsuit, such as those banned in 2009 after Cielo’s record.
He continued to do so, and in April, wearing a common shorts, he swam at 21s03 (0s01 less than Caeleb Dressel, owner of the best time in the post-era of supermaioms). Gkolomeev earned from the organizers $ 1 million for the “records”, which were not recognized by the International Swimming Federation.
The literal translation of the name in English is strange. “Enhanced Games” come from “Performance-Enhancing Drugs”, drugs that improve performance, prohibited in elite sport. That is why they have been compared around the world to a kind of doping Olympics.
Donald Trump’s son is a sponsor. The creator, Australian businessman Aron d’Oza, tries to convince the world that he will reinvent “hypocritical, corrupt and dysfunctional Olympic Games.”
The official website calls the “future of sports science” initiative, which “redefines superhumanity through science, innovation and sport”. In an X video, an man states that, doped, he broke the record of the 100m shallow Usain Bolt, but can not show his face because the Olympic Games “hate him”. Break, impossible.
In addition to Gkolomeev, three swimmers are poster boys/guinea pigs, seduced by the promise of pocketing millions if they break a lie. Andrii Govorov, a 50m butterfly record holder, and James Magnussen, Olympic medalist and world champion, are already retired. Josif Miladinov is silver in the European Championship. Magnussen, 34, says he felt “18 years” since he has ingested hormones, testosterone and substances without scientific tests.
Experts have warned about the risks of doping, loss of libido to heart attacks. World Athletics will ban those who participate forever.
There are those who argue that it is better not to talk about it so as not to promote something that goes against the values of the sport. I see another way.
This event is already in the sewage of sports history. It is not funny to see an athlete run or doped swim. But I find it dangerous to ignore it or just treat it as a joke. The strategy they use is known: fake news, effects of effect, to say that the world is against them. And there are people who will believe anything said to them as long as what they want to hear.
Therefore, I prefer an open debate so that we can educate ourselves and so that the error does not repeat itself in the future.
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