Proud won silver behind Australia's Cameron McEvoy at both the 2024 Olympics and this year's World Aquatics Championships
Olympic swimmer Ben Proud has become the first British athlete to join the controversial Enhanced Games - but insists what he is doing is not undermining 'clean' sport.
Proud, 30, is a world and European champion at 50m freestyle, and won silver at the 2024 Olympics in Paris.
But he has now committed to an event which allows athletes to take banned performance-enhancing drugs. By taking part he will be banned from international competition.
He never won Olympic gold or broke the 50m freestyle world record, which has stood since 2009, but feels that the Enhanced Games "give me a new opportunity to continue this pursuit and see how far I can take things".
