ESPN’s E60 Documentary Examines The Enhanced Games And The Impression Of PEDs

ESPN is about to launch a documentary centered on the Enhanced Games, trying into what occurs when athletes are allowed to take efficiency enhancing medication (PEDs). The E60 documentary titled “Fear and Doping in Las Vegas” will make its debut Thursday, July 2, at 9 p.m. ET on ESPN, streaming afterward on the ESPN App.

E60 adopted a number of athletes once they have been at coaching camp in Abu Dhabi all the best way up by way of the Enhanced Games competitors that happened final month in Las Vegas. Among these athletes embrace swimmers Cody Miller and Andrii Govorov. Other athletes embrace monitor sprinters Shania Collins and Marvin Bracy-Williams in addition to Canadian weightlifter Boady Santavy.

The documentary seems to be into the query, “what happens when human performance is pushed beyond its natural limits?” ESPN’s Dan Murphy interviewed Enhanced CEO Max Martin, biotech big Christian Angermayer, in addition to specialists who’ve spent their careers combating towards doping.

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Swimmer Hunter Armstrong additionally seems within the trailer. Armstrong joined the Enhanced Games in March and competed on the inaugural Enhanced Games as a clear athlete. Armstrong gained the 50 again and was 2nd within the 100 free, incomes a complete of $375,000. He was drug examined by USADA proper after racing.

Only one Enhanced World Record was set in Las Vegas as Kristian Gkolomeev touched in a 20.81 within the males’s 50 freestyle to earn the $1 million bonus for going quicker than the World Record.

Enhanced Group trades on the New York Stock Exchange below the ticker ENHA. The inventory closed at $2.81 in the present day, June twenty ninth, a 71% drop from the closing value of $9.70 the day it went public on May eighth. Two weeks in the past, Enhanced Group raised $50 million in personal funding in public fairness financing. The transaction was led by Apeiron Investment Group.