Olympic sprinter Fred Kerley, banned from track for missing drug tests, says he will be running clean at Enhanced Games
The 31-year-old said he has plans to compete at the 2028 Olympics.
Fred Kerley, a 31-year-old former Olympic sprinter currently banned from the regular track circuit until 2027, will compete in the 2026 Enhanced Games , and says that he will be running clean , he told reporters Saturday. This inaugural event, put on by the company Enhanced on Sunday, mirrors the Olympics, but with a mix of science to show what humans are capable of. The “Enhanced” part of the title comes from the fact that competitors had the choice to take certain PEDs if they would have liked to, to see if they could set new records.
The fact that PED usage is available to competitors makes it interesting that Kerley came out on Saturday and said he was clean. The sprinter, who won silver in the 100-meter dash at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and bronze at Paris 2024, has been banned from regular track circuit competition until August 2027 for “whereabouts failures,” which is a fancy way of saying that he missed drug tests. Kerley missed three drug tests in a 12-month span, which normally triggers a ban.
The Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) announced in early 2026 that the sprinter was guilty and that he was “negligent and, to a certain extent, reckless” in not complying with the rules. His ban is backdated to August 2025, hence why it will stand until August of next year. Still, since the Enhanced Games are not under the AIU jurisdiction, he is able to compete.
Kerley maintained that his decision to participate in the Enhanced Games was not driven by the opportunity to use PEDs. Instead, the sprinter said it was the contract Enhanced offered him . When asked ahead of the Enhanced Games why he was opting not to use PEDs, he said, “I don’t need it.