Donald Trump Jr. may have been an investor in the Enhanced Games, but that didn’t stop his sister-in-law, Lara Trump, from labeling the pharmaceutically assisted athletic competition a disappointment after just one world record was broken.
“If anyone watched, I am kind of sorry because I don’t feel it was what it was cracked up to be,” she said during an episode on her podcast, “The Right View.”
Forty-two athletes in track, swimming and weight lifting gathered in Las Vegas last weekend to compete free from restrictions on performance-enhancing drugs. The point was to showcase what science could do to boost human achievement.
Organizers had hoped for some records to be surpassed, but only one contender, Greek athlete Kristian Gkolomeev, actually pulled it off in competition.
He swam the 50-meter freestyle in 20.81 seconds, better than the official 20.88-second record set by Australian Cameron McEvoy earlier this year. He collected a $1 million bonus for that.
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Don Jr.’s venture fund, 1789 Capitol, is an investor in the event, as is billionaire entrepreneur Peter Thiel, a major backer of President Trump.
