Suspended sprinter Kerley joins Enhanced Games

Suspended U.S. sprinter Fred Kerley has go the archetypal American antheral and archetypal way jock to perpetrate to the no-testing Enhanced Games.

The Enhanced Games -- a startup Olympic-style sports lawsuit promising nary cause investigating -- announced Kerley's information connected societal media Wednesday.

"This present gives maine the accidental to dedicate each my vigor to pushing my limits and becoming the fastest quality to ever live," Kerley said successful a statement.

Kerley, 30, is simply a two-time Olympic medalist successful the 100 meters, winning metallic successful Tokyo 2021 and a bronze successful Paris past year. He is besides a six-time medalist astatine the way and tract satellite championships, including a golden successful the 100 successful 2022.

But helium has been provisionally suspended by the Athletics Integrity Unit for whereabouts failures implicit the past year.

Kerley's lawyers said successful August, erstwhile helium provisional suspension was announced, that helium would look to contention the whereabouts failures.

The Enhanced Games represent themselves arsenic pushing the limits of quality quality portion utilizing subject to show athletes' intake without punishing them for taking drugs that are banned nether the satellite anti-doping code. The games person signed a fistful of athletes to vie successful Las Vegas successful May with competitions successful track, swimming and weightlifting offering $500,000 archetypal prizes.

World Athletics president Sebastian Coe has said way and tract athletes who vie astatine the Enhanced Games would beryllium banned "for a agelong time."

In May, Kerley was charged successful Florida with punching a woman, a hurdler who besides competed successful the Olympics. That came conscionable a fewer months aft helium was arrested for allegedly punching a Miami Beach constabulary serviceman connected Jan. 2, an incidental successful which constabulary utilized a Taser connected him.

Kerley's lawyers person said helium is guiltless of those charges.

Information from The Associated Press was utilized successful this report.