Advanced Games: Fred Kerley won the 100m with a 9.97 that would have seen him finish last at the 2024 Olympics. Athletics news

Fred Kerley won the 100 meters with 9.97 seconds which would have seen him last in the 2024 Olympics; British swimmer Ben Proud finished with a world record 50m butterfly time of .05 seconds; Only one world record was broken over the weekend

Fred Kerley of the United States competes in the men’s 100m final at the Enhanced Games in Las Vegas

Fred Curley ran the 100m in a pedestrian 9.97 seconds to win the Enhanced Games – but at the same time would have seen the former bronze medalist finish at the 2024 Olympics.

Kerley, who predicted Usain Bolt’s world record of 9.58 seconds would be “destroyed”, won a race in which sprinters had to be placed at the starting block four times due to false starts and untied shoes.

The only athlete to win a $1 million bonus for going faster than the four-hour swim, weightlifting and track world records in a specially built stadium on the Las Vegas Strip was Kristian Gokolomiev, who closed the night with a 50-meter free in 20.81 seconds.

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Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, Lisa Nandy MP, said ahead of the Enhanced Games that she was ‘unfazed’ by them, focusing instead on ‘clean sport’

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Jane Rumble, chief executive of the UK Anti-Doping Agency, has criticized the extended Games, expressing her ‘disappointment’

But that record won’t go down in the books, because Enhanced Games, as its name suggests, allows performance-enhancing drugs that are banned in mainstream sports.

The men’s 50m freestyle world record of 20.88 seconds was set two months ago by Cameron McEvoy at the sanctioned event.

Marius Kusch of Germany competed in the men’s 100m butterfly final

Gkolomeev won a $1m bonus from Enhanced last year for swimming faster than the world record during a “trial”.

However, the most iconic landmarks in Olympic sports are on the track, and while Kerley called out Bolt’s 17-year-old record – the messy 100m event proved no threat to the Jamaican’s milestone.

Kerley was in a line of six runners who had to be called three times from outside the blocks – an energy sapper – first for a sprinter to re-tie his shoes, then twice more when the false-start signal went off, but the initial speed was, apparently, undetectable and no one was disqualified.

Cody Miller of the United States celebrates after winning the men’s 100m breaststroke final

“A lot of false starts, a lot of jumping, a lot of people who don’t want to run their heats,” Kerley said of the less-than-full field for a largely meaningless prelim race in which he false started but wasn’t DQ’d. “Gotta do better than that. I’m ready to run fast.”

Kerley, who said he was not using performance enhancers, still pocketed $250,000 – the first-place prize for all events.

British swimmer Ben Proud took part in The Enhanced Games

In all, Enhanced said 14 personal bests were set by 12 athletes, all swimmers and weightlifters.

Among those who ran world marks was British Olympic silver medalist Ben Proud, who finished .05 off the 50m fly mark of 22.27.

“I think I am,” when asked if he was happy to win $250,000. “But I think we all know what we’re here for, and that’s a world record.”