Ben Proud, a world champion swimmer and silver medal winner in Paris last summer, announced on Wednesday that he stopped his Olympic career to race in lucrative events that make steroids and other drugs possible for performance.
Proud, from Great -Britain, said on Instagram That he has the opportunity “to pursue something unique that excites me in a new way. … This is not the end of my journey. It is the start of a new chapter.”
The first improved competition in May in Las Vegas pays $ 250,000 to the winner of the 50-meter event and $ 1 million for breaking the world record, the athletics reported. The same incentives apply to the 100 -meter sprint in Baan en Veld. Weightlifting is also disputed.
“My ambition has always been to be the fastest man on the planet,” said Proud in a release on Wednesday, Per athletics. “I want to concentrate on performance at the highest level. … The improved games give me that opportunity – to test the limits of human potential with the tools and possibilities of our time.” “
Aquatics GB said On Instagram It was “enormously disappointed” and “condemns Ben’s decision in the strongest conditions.”
The World Anti-Doping Agency had previously branded the improved games as a “dangerous and irresponsible concept”, The BBC reported.
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But proudly pushed back to the worries about his well -being.
“Health is probably the biggest thing people talk about about, but I am very sure that nothing I will affect in the long term, based on all the protocols I was told about and how they are going to manage it,” he told athletics. “I feel that I am in the safest place for this.”
