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Good morning and welcome to The Daily Oz.

It's Wednesday the 27th of May.

I'm Emma Gillespie.

The enhanced games, described by some as the steroid Olympics, promised to shatter world records and redefine sport.

Instead, a clean swimmer beat doped athletes and Australia's biggest name finished dead last twice.

Today, we are going to recap how we got here and break down what actually happened at this week's inaugural Enhanced Games in Vegas.

But first, you're going to hear a quick message from Sarah in the TDA team.

Yeah, it's funny you mentioned the Olympics, Billie, because it feels like we've been waiting as long as a four year wait between Olympics for these games to actually come to fruition.

But this is a competition that was founded by an Aussie, actually, a Melbourne born entrepreneur whose name is Aaron D'Souza.

And basically his concept and what played out this week was that athletes would be given access to performance enhancing drugs and

such as testosterone, human growth hormones, anabolic steroids, under medical supervision to test how far humans could be pushed forward.

in terms of success, speed, pace, weight.

And the idea was that if we let athletes dope, they could smash all these world records.

Now, the Enhanced Games had a bit of a trimmed down version of that early vision, and it included events across swimming, athletics, and weightlifting.

So just those three categories.

But the prize money on offer was really the big hook and the selling point of these games.

You know, apart from the fascination with doping, athletes were promised a million dollar bonus for breaking world records.