Let’s be clear, this isn’t a column about sport. It’s a column about a circus freakshow, masquerading as sport.

The concept of the Enhanced Games is grotesque. Where, apparently, the rules are there are no rules. Thunderdome-style. Boundaries offer nothing beyond a suggestion derived from someone’s perverse imagination; where nobody says no to anything.

Some Greek tragicomic, Kristian Gkolomeev “breaks” the men’s 50m freestyle world record, and trousers $US1 million. B.U.L.L.S.H.I.T. Kristian Gkolomeev didn’t break a world record any more than I would break the 10km open-water swimming world record if I competed on a jetski. It’s a farce.

And it’s dangerous. Just think of James Magnussen jabbing himself with needles, and overdosing on testosterone, CJC-1295 and cocktails of lolly water and whatever other substances he has used that have not been properly trialled for human use. Before this week, CJC-1295 and Thymosin hadn’t made the news since the days of Stephen Dank.

Those growth hormone-releasing peptides? Well, Magnussen had better hope he’s not suffering from some undiagnosed cancer of some type, with cells starting to multiply in his system. Because introducing those peptides to cancer is like chucking petrol on the last embers of a bonfire. You can’t put on 10kg in as many days with just a diet of protein shakes and grilled chicken.

James Magnussen is injected with a performance-enhancing substance.Credit: Enhanced Games

The inescapable reality is that Gkolomeev becomes the poster child for the freak show, the first edition of which will be held, fittingly, in Las Vegas this time next year. If absurdity had a dictionary definition …

This column shouldn’t even be in the sport section of this newspaper or website because while the Enhanced Games might be a lot of things, sport it certainly ain’t.

The promulgators of these Enhanced Games – including a wake (I can’t think of a better collective noun) of vultures in suits – seek to spear the Olympic Movement and the notion of clean sport on multiple fronts, to argue there is a need for elite, international-standard........

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