Enhanced Games posts winners; media compares performances to official world records

The Enhanced Games published results after its inaugural event in Las Vegas on Sunday, May 24, and sports outlets on Monday began measuring the winners against recognized world-record standards. Yahoo Sports posted a results breakdown comparing event winners in swimming, track and weightlifting with official records, while a separate Yahoo item asked whether any world records had been set. (sports.yahoo.com) The event was held at Resorts World Las Vegas in a custom-built arena, according to NPR and the company’s event page. (upr.org) Enhanced said the competition brought together about 40 athletes, with swimming, track, weightlifting and a strongman deadlift on the program. (enhanced.com) ### So what exactly did the Enhanced Games post after Sunday night? Yahoo Sports on May 25 published a winner-by-winner comparison chart for the event’s performances against official world records. The chart covered swimming races, track sprints and hurdles, and weightlifting classes, alongside the deadlift. (sports.yahoo.com) Enhanced’s own site had billed the Las Vegas meet as the first edition of a new competition in which “enhanced and non-enhanced athletes” would compete. The company described the event as part of a broader push to showcase “measurable performance enhancement under regulated conditions.” ### Did any of the winning marks match official world records? (upr.org) Yahoo Sports’ Monday comparison showed multiple winning performances still short of the official record standards listed beside them. In the excerpted Yahoo results table, Hunter Armstrong won the men’s 50-meter backstroke in 24.21 seconds against a listed world record of 23.55, and Cody Miller won the men’s 50-meter breaststroke in 26.55 against a listed 25.95 record. (sports.yahoo.com) Yahoo’s separate “Did anyone set a world record?” item framed the same question directly after the meet. The article said the Las Vegas event had been designed around record-chasing, but also noted the marks would sit outside the anti-doping systems used by governing bodies in conventional sport. (enhanced.com) ### How much money was attached to the results? NPR reported before the event that the total prize pool was $25 million and that each individual event carried a $500,000 purse, with $250,000 to first place. SwimSwam separately reported the same swimming payout structure, listing $125,000 for second, $75,000 for third and $50,000 for fourth. (sports.yahoo.com) SwimSwam said the men’s and women’s 50-meter freestyle events carried $1 million bonuses for swims under the official world-record time. NPR reported that the company had also advertised a $1 million bonus for a world record in the 100-meter sprint or the 50-meter freestyle, while noting such marks would not be recognized by bodies such as World Athletics because those systems require drug testing. (sports.yahoo.com) ### Why were other outlets comparing the winners to official records? Yahoo Sports used official world-record standards as the benchmark for its post-event results page. That comparison reflected the event’s own pre-meet marketing, which centered on whether athletes could surpass marks from drug-tested competition. (upr.org) NPR reported that Enhanced competitors were allowed to use performance-enhancing drugs banned in internationally recognized sport, and said the company had disclosed usage rates among entrants in the days before the event. SwimSwam also reported those disclosures and covered the swimming prize and bonus structure in advance. (swimswam.com) ### Who were the named athletes around the event? NPR identified two-time Olympic medalist Fred Kerley as one of the athletes at the Las Vegas event and reported that he said he would compete without using performance-enhancing drugs. Enhanced’s athlete page listed swimmers including Andrii Govorov, Antani Ivanov, Benjamin Proud and Cody Miller, among others. (sports.yahoo.com) SwimSwam’s pre-event coverage also highlighted Kristian Gkolomeev and James Magnussen as prominent names around the meet’s swimming program. Those names were central to the company’s earlier record-chasing promotion before Sunday’s competition. (upr.org) ### Where can readers follow the next round of details? Yahoo Sports’ May 25 results pages remain the clearest published comparison of winners against official records, while Enhanced’s event page continues to host the Las Vegas meet overview and athlete list. SwimSwam also published pre-event and live-style coverage tied to the swimming program and payout structure around the May 24-25 competition window. (upr.org) (sports.yahoo.com) (swimswam.com)