By James Sutherland on SwimSwam
Two-time Olympic medalist Cody Miller detailed his determination to hitch the Enhanced Video games in his newest YouTube video on Monday.
Information broke that Miller, 33, was becoming a member of the Enhanced Video games on Sunday, first reported by the New York Occasions, and Miller confirmed the information and dove into his determination together with his newest vlog, which you’ll be able to watch beneath:
Miller, who retired from sanctioned competitors in December 2024, stated there are three main goals he lives his life by, and the Enhanced Video games verify all of the packing containers.
He first spoke about presence and longevity – he needs to be current for his two youngsters, and spoke about how his father, Craig, died in December 2015, shortly earlier than Cody swam on the 2016 Olympics.
“My father handed away on the age of 60, means, means, means too younger. Only a few months earlier than I competed on the Olympic Video games,” Miller stated. “He by no means bought to see me compete. So longevity is among the most essential issues to me, it’s mainly primary. I need to be round for my children.”
Talking on the perceived risks of the Enhanced Video games, Miller stated that anybody who is aware of him is aware of he’s not going to do something that may jeopardize his long-term well being.
“While you see a number of the wild headlines about Enhanced and the way it’s harmful, I’m right here to let you know it’s not likely the case. That is one thing that most individuals don’t actually perceive.”
Since signing on with the Enhanced Video games, he stated he’s already undergone medical screenings and blood work, giving him a “higher understanding of what’s truly taking place in my physique proper now than I ever have earlier than.”
Miller then spoke on the obvious motive why swimmers are opting to hitch the Enhanced Video games, the monetary one.
“They’re paying me some huge cash, I’ve no disgrace in saying that,” he stated, noting that his second goal in life is being a supplier.
Having the ability to present financially whereas persevering with his ardour, racing and coaching, was a key figuring out think about his determination
He spoke on how a swimmer might win two occasions on the Enhanced Video games and stroll away with $500,000, with $1 million or extra on the road if data are damaged.
British sprinter Ben Proud, essentially the most achieved swimmer to hitch the Enhanced Video games up to now, stated in September that what he’ll make with the Enhanced Video games is equal to profitable world titles for 13 straight years.
Miller stated he was “proud that athletes in my sport have that chance to earn that sort of cash, to have these sorts of incentives that athletes ought to have.”
He stated after profitable two medals on the 2016 Olympics, he made lower than $100,000.
“I personally suppose we athletes deserve higher than that, and Enhanced is doing that.”
The third goal Miller spoke on is journey–he values new experiences and stated that is simply that, including that as a Las Vegas native, the thought of a giant spectacle excites him.
He spoke about how he’s not too long ago taken half in ice swimming occasions, and the way he enjoys watching finswimming occasions, and the way these are two kinds of competitions with completely different units of guidelines from conventional swimming, and the Enhanced Video games is simply one other one.
“Enhanced Video games is a special factor with a special algorithm,” he stated.
Miller closed out the video by reiterating his retirement from any World Aquatics-sanctioned occasions, and stated he’s now not affiliated with any USA Swimming golf equipment or coaches.
“I’ve no affiliation with USA Swimming. No partnerships, no contracts, nothing,” he stated.
Miller particularly stated he has no affiliation with Indiana College and Indiana Swimming in Bloomington, the place he’s skilled for the higher a part of the previous 15 years since becoming a member of the Hoosiers as a university swimmer in 2010.
“I’ve my very own coaching group, which has no affiliation with any of these issues. I need to make that tremendous, tremendous clear.”
Indiana head coach Ray Looze declined to touch upon Miller’s determination.
“I additionally need to be tremendous clear that I totally assist clear sport within the conventional types of swimming – on the Olympic degree, within the FINA (World Aquatics) sanctioned occasions. That’s the way it needs to be. These are the foundations, these guidelines needs to be adopted,” Miller stated.
Miller gained a person bronze medal on the 2016 Olympics in Rio, putting third within the males’s 100 breaststroke in what was an American Report on the time of 58.87. He additionally swam the breast leg on the U.S. males’s 4×100 medley relay that gained gold in Rio.
Miller additionally owns a pair of World Championship gold medals from the lads’s 4×100 medley relay on the 2015 and 2017 LC Worlds, and has three extra medley relay medals from Quick Course Worlds in 2014 and 2016. He additionally silver within the 100 breast on the 2019 Pan Am Video games.
After putting fifteenth within the 100 breast and seventeenth within the 200 breast on the 2024 U.S. Olympic Trials, Miller introduced his retirement from aggressive swimming final December, racing at a neighborhood meet on the IU Natatorium earlier than calling it a profession.
Miller is the second American swimmer to signal the Enhanced Video games, becoming a member of Megan Romano, and is the eleventh male and 14th swimmer total to hitch the controversial league, which can host its inaugural occasion in Could 2026.
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