{"id":471014,"date":"2025-09-17T21:24:03","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T21:24:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=471014"},"modified":"2025-09-17T23:18:32","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T23:18:32","slug":"chalmers-rejects-life-changing-3-8m-offer-from-doping-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=471014","title":{"rendered":"Chalmers rejects 'life changing' $3.8m offer from doping games"},"content":{"rendered":"

A\ufeffustralian swim star Kyle Chalmers<\/a> has knocked back potential earnings of more than $3.8 million following an approach from the highly controversial Enhanced Games.<\/p>\n

According to The Sydney Morning Herald<\/a>, the 27-year-old three-time Olympian<\/a> was offered a lucrative deal but rejected it, and he may yet be approached again.<\/p>\n

The Enhanced Games is on track to debut next year in Las Vegas\ufeff and the divisive new venture encourages athletes to use performing enhancing drugs which would normally be banned.<\/p>\n

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Australian swim great James Magnussen is one of the most high profile athletes already signed up to compete.<\/p>\n

On Thursday it was announced American sprint star Fred Kerley is the latest athlete to commit to the Enhanced Games.<\/p>\n

\"Kyle<\/p>\n

\ufeffKerley won bronze in the 100m sprint at last year's Paris Olympics but has been banned from the current world athletics championships after an anti-doping whereabouts violation.<\/p>\n

"I'm looking forward to this new chapter and competing at the Enhanced Games," Kerley said.<\/p>\n

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"The world record has always been the ultimate goal of my career.<\/p>\n

"This now gives me the opportunity to dedicate all my energy to pushing my limits and becoming the fastest human to ever live."<\/p>\n

If Kerley does break Usain Bolt's world record of 9.58 seconds for the 100m sprint he has been promised a bonus worth about $1.5m.\ufeff<\/p>\n

The Enhanced Games offers bonuses of $US1m to any athlete who can break a world record, although it will be illegitimate given they will have been doping.\ufeff<\/p>\n

\"Chalmers<\/p>\n

As for Chalmers, the decision to knock back the approach allows him to continue swimming for the Dolphins.<\/p>\n

\ufeffBut it will no doubt cost him plenty of cash, given the Herald reports Chalmers was promised a three-year contract worth $1.6m, plus bonuses worth as much as $1.5m. The offer also included equity in the business which could potentially net him millions more.<\/p>\n

His manager Phoebe Rothfield told the Herald the offer would have been "life changing" for Chalmers\ufeff.<\/p>\n

"Kyle said no from the onset. It was a brief discussion," she said.<\/p>\n

"What drives him is competing for his country, standing on the podium in the green and gold and doing the sport because he loves it."<\/p>\n

Chalmers won gold in the 2016 Olympics 100m freestyle, and took silver in the same event in Paris last year.\ufeff<\/p>\n

Earlier this year Chalmers called on world swimming to offer more money to athletes in order to stop them joining the Enhanced Games.<\/p>\n

\ufeffWorld Aquatics is putting a blanket ban on any athlete or coach who signs with the Enhanced Games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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