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An American Olympic medalist is going down an unorthodox athletic path.
Fred Kerley, who won the 2022 world championships in the 100 meters, will be competing in next year’s Enhanced Games, an Olympic-style sporting event that allows performance-enhancing drugs.
Kerley is now the first track athlete and first American male athlete to commit to the games.
Kerley was a part of the 4×100-meter team in Paris that was disqualified due to a botched handoff. Lyles figured to be a part of that team but fell ill with COVID-19 earlier in the week, which contributed to him falling short in the 200 meters, an event for which he had been the heavy favorite.
Kerley accused the United States Track and Field Association of playing favorites by adding Lyles to the 4×400-meter team in the 2024 world championships.
Enhanced Games founder Dr. Aron D’Souza has been critical of the Olympics and sport governing bodies in the past, calling them hypocritical when it came to natural sport and athletes’ health and even claiming his event will be safer.
“For the people who say this is unsafe or unhealthy, I’d tell them that the two longest-serving sponsors of the Olympics are Coca-Cola and McDonald’s, the two organizations that have done the most damage to health in human history. There’s actually no doubt about that,” D’Souza said in a 2024 interview with Fox News Digital.
“Fast food and fake sugar have done more damage to human health than anyone in human history. You can read the history books. The rise of McDonald’s and the rise of Coca-Cola have been very much attached to the Olympic movement. So, when the IOC and its cronies want to lecture me about safety, I point to their own history.”
The Enhanced Games are set to take place next May in Las Vegas. Former Olympic swimmer James Magnussen, of Australia, is set to compete, where rewards of up to $1 million are being offered.
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