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The problem with the enhanced games is that people who would compete in stuff that's basically labelled "for cheater's by cheaters sponsored by crypto" are not generally the sort of people who would otherwise be winning the olympics. They're more likely to be people who flunked out of the chance to win the "proper" games.
Hunter Armstrong is not one of those, he's a world record holding olympic athlete competing against a retired swimmer (Shane Ryan) and an amateur college athlete (Sohib Khaled). The only one who is even in his category of swimmer there is Ivanov.
Pretty much my initial thoughts without looking into it. Anybody who's competed at the top level globally can show up to a lower level competition and dominate, this is more of a reflection of how little legitimacy the enhanced games have that they're not attracting global level talent.
I'd also think it's because not a lot of top performers would very obviously put their lives and bodies at risk for a chance to win a gimmick Olympics.
The people performing at the top of their game are already destroying their bodies, why would they need to go further.
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