The Olympian Max McCusker on his decision to sign up for the Las Vegas games where performance-enhancing drugs are encouragedThe swimmer Max McCusker set an Irish record for the 100m butterfly in 2024 and competed at the Paris Olympics, but his career didn’t take off in the way he thought it would.“Pretty much straight after the Paris Olympics, I retired due to mainly financial reasons,” Max tells Nosheen Iqbal. “So I just decided that, you know what, I’ve made my childhood career dream, and I had to go work in the corporate world for a bit.” Continue reading...

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