Max McCusker has develop into the second Irish Olympic swimmer to affix the controversial Enhanced Video games.
In October, three-time Olympian Shane Ryan confirmed he had signed up after asserting his retirement from swimming, a transfer which was condemned by Swim Eire.
McCusker, who represented Eire on the 2024 Paris Video games, has adopted Ryan’s resolution to affix a contest that may enable athletes to make use of performance-enhancing substances with out being topic to drug assessments.
Staff GB Olympic swimmer Ben Proud, four-time Greece Olympian Kristian Gkolomeev and US sprinter Fred Kerley are amongst these set to compete.
The primary Enhanced Video games are on account of happen in Las Vegas in 2026 with every occasion awarded a complete prize purse of $500,000 (£375,000) and $1m (£750,000) on provide for opponents who break world data.
McCusker, 26, competed within the males’s 4x100m medley relay in Paris alongside Ryan, Conor Ferguson and Darragh Greene.
On the 2024 World Aquatics Championships in Doha, McCusker broke the Irish 100m butterfly file twice in in the future with instances of 52.52 and 52.31 seconds.
The previous Arizona State College swimmer additionally set an Irish 100m butterfly file of 51.90 seconds through the Irish Open in 2024.
American Caeleb Dressel set the 100m butterfly world file in a 50m pool at 49.45 seconds in 2021, whereas in October 2025 Canadian Josh Liendo broke the quick course file with a time of 47.68 seconds in a 25m pool.
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