Fred Kerley has been navigating the rough waters lately. Following his provisional suspension by the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) in August 2025, he had to make some difficult decisions. Kerley had to look for a stage where limits don’t exist, and that’s exactly what the Enhanced Games promise. Hence, the 30-year-old signed up for the controversial no dr*g testing event. With this, Fred Kerley just became the first track athlete and first American male to join Enhanced Games. For weeks, he said nothing, but now, he finally broke his silence.
Just a few weeks back, the suspension imposed by AIU on Kerley (for repeated whereabouts failures) left him out of the ongoing World Championships in Tokyo. That silence set the rumor mill on fire. Was Kerley finished? Was he quietly done with tra