Enchanced Games CEO says 4 of 10 fastest men in history have approached him. Which 4?

I'm sorry but I just don't believe it.

1 9.58 +0.9 Usain Bolt JAM 21.08.86 1 Berlin 16.08.2009

No.

2 9.69 +2.0 Tyson Gay USA 09.08.82 1 Shanghai 20.09.2009

Long retired. I don't see it.

3 9.69 -0.1 Yohan Blake JAM 26.12.89 1 Lausanne 23.08.2012

Doubtful but he's at the end of his career so maybe?

4 9.72 +0.2 Asafa Powell JAM 23.11.82 1rA Lausanne 02.09.2008

Maybe?

5 9.74 +0.9 Justin Gatlin USA 10.02.82 1 Ad-Dawhah 15.05.2015

Alright, I could believe this.

6 9.76 +0.6 Christian Coleman USA 06.03.96 1 Ad-Dawhah 28.09.2019

Considering he's already had one ban pretty recently and is about to go into the most important year of his career going to the enhanced games seems like a poor idea.

7 9.76A +1.2 Trayvon Bromell USA 10.07.95 1 Nairobi 18.09.2021

I just don't see it.

8 9.76 +1.4 Fred Kerley USA 07.05.95 1s1 Eugene 24.06.2022

I also don't really see it.

9 9.77A +1.2 Ferdinand Omanyala KEN 02.01.96 2 Nairobi 18.09.2021

I'm not gonna say anything but I wouldn't be very surprised.

10 9.78 +0.9 Nesta CARTER 11 OCT 1985 JAMJAM 1 Stadio Guidobaldi, Rieti (ITA) 29 AUG 2010 1283

Long retired.

Trolls gonna troll

I agree that it's hard to believe that four of these guys "approached" him. But Coleman wouldn't surprise me. Judgment is not his strong suit. My guess is that four is an exaggeration. Maybe he's had informal conversations with four, but I don't believe more than one or two would actually compete -- unless they were retired and unable to make money any other way.

What if Shelbi signs up and drops a 13:45. Would you reconsider if she is guilty? By the same token when she runs 14:50….

I think it’s just BS, which seems to be the budding consensus.

Agreed. I would almost certainly say he’s exaggerating for effect and publicity. Perhaps 1-2 of the all-time top 10 have approached him and maybe another couple ranked much further down the list.

Yes.... 5 of the 10 have retired, and Blake has been out of shape since a while now. While some of them may be interested, doping them up won't really show what doping can do. E.g., what can one learn from seeing Blake or Bolt running a 9.8 - 9.9 now? Lyles or Coleman would be a lot more interesting. 9.5? 9.4? Would be hard to make that worthwhile for them, as their WA career would be over.

As for Houlihan's 13:45: all out doping will be a lot more efficient than her microdosing under the eyes of USADA and AIU, so I could see her getting such a time. Would be easier to find a 14:23 African lady though and pay her to do it.

Approaching could just mean - hey how much would we be looking at to do this? not fully interested but what kind of money are we looking at?

I wouldn't believe anything that guy says. He's made a living off scamming and conning and now has an event encouraging cheaters to use potentially dangerous drugs so he can make more money.

Off-topic but did you guys see in the article, he literally called the 10000 not interesting 😭

I mean he's not really wrong, it's basically the 5000 in terms of tactics and winners, except the boring middle section is twice as long.

Athletes should and make the buck to make a living wage. Good for them.

Maybe they approached him to tell him what a stupid idea it is and that he should just drop it and go away.

I don't think you have to be doping to compete - they just won't test there. There is probably a diminishing return for doping. So some average athlete won't be a super star from a crash doping program and the top athletes won't be doping as this one competition just isn't enough to throw away the rest of their careers.

It is debateable if full scale doping is actually noticeably faster. That is part of what this games would prove when they can’t come close to the WRs…

I think that's basically proven for sprints and all women's events. Just look at the 80s and Ma's army. Just roid them up to turn them more and more into men.

But to prove that for the male 1500 or marathon, you'd need to get top athletes in their prime like Inge, Nuguse and ???

Not sure whether any current marathoner could, even doped to the gills, beat 2:00:35. Kipchoge and Bekele are getting slower and slower, and the next fastest, Lemme with his 2:01:48, is already 33 years old. The youngest 2:02 runner, Legese with a 2:02:48, is 29 years old, but would have to improve by over 2 minutes. Plus you'd need a course like Berlin or Chicago with lots of good pacers.

It will be bascially the same thing as the Olympics but without the hypocrisy concerning PED use.

That is my thought also. The "enhanced" games sprinters wouldn't be faster than those that passed drug tests...bringing suspicion of the legitimate sprint world.

Zero chance this is true. Just going king of says a lot about your doping legacy. Most (all) of those guys are living with built in excuses. Now maybe you have the one "Canseco" type who proudly wears PEDs as badge of honor, but I dont thing any of these guys fits the bill.