Enhanced Games chief comes out fighting after just one world record broken

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The BBC's Shaimaa Khalil explains why the achievement by Greek swimmer Kristian Gkolomeev will not be accepted by official sporting bodies.

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Enhanced Games chief Maximilian Martin insisted the controversial competition had "changed the world" despite organisers managing to oversee just one unofficial world record during a chaotic night in Las Vegas.The long-awaited event had promised to revolutionise sport through the use of performance-enhancing drugs, with organisers repeatedly boasting that athletes would smash multiple world records and redefine human limits.Instead, after more than five hours of competition involving swimmers, sprinters and weightlifters, only one athlete managed to produce a performance faster than an existing recognised world best.Greek swimmer Kristian Gkolomeev clocked 20.81 seconds in the men's 50m freestyle, narrowly quicker than the official mark set by Australia's Cameron McEvoy earlier this year.

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TRENDING Stories Videos Your Say The swim will not be recognised officially due to the event permitting banned substances and outlawed performance-enhancing skinsuits.But that did little to dampen...

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