The suspended American sprinter Fred Kerley became the first American man and the first athlete at the track to engage in improved games without testing.
Improved games – An Olympic STARTUP sporting event promising no drug screening tests – announced Kerley’s participation on social networks on Wednesday.
“It now gives me the opportunity to devote all my energy to push my limits and become the fastest human to live,” Kerley said in a press release.
Kerley, 30, is a double Olympic medalist per 100 meters, winning silver in Tokyo 2021 and a bronze in Paris last year. He is also a medalist six times at the world athletics championships, including a gold per 100 in 2022.
But it was temporarily suspended by the unit of integrity of athletics for the failures of the place in the past year and is not at the world championships in Tokyo this week.
Kerley’s lawyers said in August, when he was announced with his provisional suspension, which he would seek to challenge the failures in which is.
Improved games are described as pushing the limits of human capacity while using science to monitor the contribution of athletes without punishing them for taking medication that are prohibited under the global anti -doping code. The games signed a handful of athletes to participate in Las Vegas in May with competitions on track, swimming and weightlifting offering $ 500,000 per event, including $ 250,000 awarded to first place. There is also a bonus of $ 1 million to beat the world of records in the 100 -meter sprint on the track or at 50 meters freestyle in swimming.
Kerley is the most prominent signature of the start -up league, which also recently signed Paris Silver Medal Naiming Proud.
The president of world athletics, Sebastian Coe, said that the athletics athletes who are competing for improved matches would have been banned “for a long time”.
“We are in a championship,” said Coe on Wednesday about Kerley News. “There is nothing more than I have to say. We will look at it when we get out of here.”
Brett Clothier, the head of the athletics integrity unit which manages anti -doping issues for global athletics, said: “Among our biggest concerns about the health of Fred Kerley and other athletes who register” to improved games. “It’s a bit grotesque, athletes, the people who are signed are used.”
In May, Kerley was charged in Florida for hitting a woman, an obstacle that also participated in the Olympic Games. It came only a few months after his arrest for having pretended to hit a Miami Beach police officer on January 2, an incident in which the police used a taser on him.
Kerley lawyers said he was innocent of these accusations.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
