Megan Romano: Enhanced Games signs first female athlete

Megan Romano announced arsenic archetypal pistillate rival astatine 2026 debut of Olympic-style Enhanced Games successful Las Vegas.

The Olympic-style athletics task that volition tally an lawsuit adjacent twelvemonth with nary cause investigating signed world-champion swimmer Megan Romano arsenic its archetypal pistillate and archetypal US athlete.

The Enhanced Games volition debut adjacent May successful Las Vegas, featuring swimming, way and weightlifting competitions successful an lawsuit that volition let athletes to usage show enhancers.

Romano calls competing successful the lawsuit “an accidental to propulsion the boundaries of quality show successful a transparent and scientifically-backed environment, and to vie connected a signifier wherever pistillate athletes are valued and compensated fairly. equally. I judge this is the aboriginal of sport.”

The Enhanced Games volition connection a prize purse of $500,000 for each event, with $1m bonuses going to anyone who breaks a satellite grounds successful the 100-metre sprint (track) and 50-metre freestyle (swimming).

Megan Romano, right, and members of the US relay squad airs with their golden medals connected the podium aft winning the women’s 4x100m freestyle relay last during the Short Course Swimming World Championships successful 2012 [Valdrin Xhemaj/EPA]

Those marks would not number arsenic “official”, due to the fact that satellite records request to beryllium ratified by planetary federations, which necessitate record-breakers to walk doping tests.

The International Olympic Committee has condemned the conception of the Enhanced Games, saying, “If you privation to destruct immoderate conception of just play and just contention successful sport, this would beryllium a bully mode to bash it.”

But the games person built immoderate momentum and raised wealth successful the “double-digit millions,” according to laminitis Aron D’Souza.

Four antheral swimmers, including Olympic medallist James Magnussen of Australia, person committed to the games.

Romano, a standout swimmer astatine Georgia successful college, anchored the US 4×100 freestyle relay squad to a golden medal astatine satellite championships successful 2013.

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Al Jazeera and quality agencies