Money on offer at Enhanced Games is worth risk, says Proud

The Olympic silver medallist Ben Proud, the first British athlete to sign up for the Enhanced Games, has accepted he risks his reputation and admitted he is chiefly motivated by earning money in the twilight of his career.

- Tony Paley

He told the BBC Today programme yesterday: "There's a huge financial incentive with this and I would be lying if I said it didn't matter. It would take me 13 years of winning world championship titles just to earn what I can win at one competition at the Enhanced Games.

"It gives me the opportunity to earn that sort of money and setting myself up, my family and supporting my mum. These are opportunities as a 30-year-old I just can't pass by."