Las Vegas native and Olympic medal-winning swimmer Cody Miller won the 50-meter breaststroke at the Enhanced Games, netting him $250,000.
Miller, 34, won with a personal best time of 26.55, besting second place Brazilian swimmer, Felipe Miller’s 26.98.
“This has been a childhood dream for me since I was 10 growing up here,” Miller said during a post-swim interview. “Having a competition like this. And I just shaved about seven tenths off my personal test at 34.”
Miller grew up in Las Vegas, attending Palo Verde High School between 2006 and 2010 and swimming locally for the Sandpipers of Nevada Swim Club.
Miller who won a gold and a bronze medal in the 2016 Olympic Games, said earlier this week that the substances he took in a eight-week period leading up to the event were testoterone, human growth hormone and oxandrolone, which is an anabolic steroid.
The Enhanced Games, being dubbed by some as the Steroid Olympics took place Sunday at Resorts World, with athletes who were allowed to use performance-enhancing substances vying to break work records in swimming, track and weightlifting.
Of the 42 athletes participating in the games, just four of them opted to compete clean, without the use of banned substances. The athletes competing clean Sunday were tested during the week by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency.
The event was condemned by the World Anti-Doping Agency, which called the event dangerous and irresponsible.
There’s a $25 million prize pool for the event, with first place in each event winning $250,000, second place $125,000, third netting $75,000 and fourth place winning $50,000. Any athlete who breaks a world record in men’s and women’s 100-meter sprint track event or the 50-meter freestyle swimming event will win a $1 million bonus. World records broken in the other events will win a $250,000 bonus.
The games took place in temporary, open-air venue was constructed on the east side of Resorts World and stands 85 feet tall and is 251 feet across.
Enhanced Games co-founder, German billionaire Christian Angermayer, said if no world records were broken Sunday that it would be a disappointment.
“We need to break world records,” Angermayer said. “If we wouldn’t break a single world record, that would be disappointing. My hope is we’re going to break two, three. … But it’s important.”
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