Olympic swimmer Ben Proud has grow to be the primary British athlete to affix the controversial Enhanced Video games – however says he would by no means do something to undermine ‘clear’ sport.

Proud, 30, is a world and European champion at 50m freestyle, and received silver on the 2024 Olympics in Paris.

However he has now dedicated to an occasion which permits athletes to take banned performance-enhancing medication.

He by no means received Olympic gold or broke the 50m freestyle world document, which has stood since 2009, however feels that the Enhanced Video games “give me a brand new alternative to proceed this pursuit and see how far I can take issues”.

Requested if he thinks the occasion undermines clear sport, Proud instructed BBC Sport: “No. I feel it opens up the potential avenue to excel in a really completely different means.

“Talking for myself, I feel realistically I’ve achieved the whole lot I can, and now the Enhanced [Games] is giving me a brand new alternative. I undoubtedly do not assume that is undermining a clear sport.

“I actually respect the game I have been a part of, and I might by no means step again in figuring out I’ve achieved one thing which is not within the guidelines.”

Proud has beforehand supported UK Anti-Doping’s Clear Sport Week whereas British team-mates Adam Peaty and Duncan Scott have been outspoken in opposition to doping.

Proud stated he sees ‘conventional sport’ and the Enhanced Video games as “two very separate entities”, and that he discovered athletes breaking the foundations “extremely irritating”.

“I see doping in clear sports activities as a whole no-go,” he stated. “I haven’t got any time for that.

“The very fact it is nonetheless taking place is an issue. It will at all times be a cat and mouse sport, there’ll at all times be folks growing new strategies or folks getting away with issues.

“That is one factor that has ruined sport for lots of people. The anti-doping businesses simply haven’t got the power to fully make sure that everyone seems to be clear and on a stage taking part in subject, and that to me has at all times been the most important frustration.

“In case you had been a part of my life for the previous 12, 13 years, you’d see how a lot time you must allocate to creating positive we’re obtainable to be examined each day, ensuring we’re continually giving our samples.”

BBC Sport has requested the World Anti-Doping Company (Wada) for remark.

Wada’s newest Anti-Doping Rule Violations (ADRVs) report, exterior was printed in July, protecting 2022. It stated that from 241,143 samples, 1,979 (0.82%) had been reported to be hostile findings, of which 1,376 (69.5%) resulted in an ADRV.