‘Got More Business in 2 Weeks Than in Last 8 Years’ - Fred Kerley Sticks the Knife in After Joining Enhance Games

American sprinter Fred Kerley has seemed to justify his decision to sign up for the controversial Enhanced Games.

Kerley made the unusual step of joining the games, which allows athletes to use performance enhancing substances, at a time when he is under a provisional suspension over an anti-doping rule violation.

The 2022 world 100m champion is provisionally suspended for whereabouts failure and faces a two-year ban, if he is found culpable, but he made the controversial move to sign up for the Enhanced Games, becoming the first American male track and field star to join.

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Kerley now claims his controversial decision is paying off massively as he is getting more business deals now compared to the eight years that he had been a professional athlete.

“Crazy how I got more business requests in the last 2 weeks than I did in the past 8 years,” Kerley posted on X.

The first edition of the Enhanced Games will take place in 2026 and there a $1 million prize at stake if Kerley breaks the 100m world record, which stands at 9.58 seconds set by Usain Bolt in 2009 although the Jamaican legend did it in a legitimate event, that year’s World Championships in Berlin, Germany.

Enhanced Games, founded by Australian businessman Aron D'Souza in 2023, are an Olympics-style event where doping is allowed, and features athletics, swimming, weightlifting, gymnastics and combat sports.

The event has, however, been criticized by World Athletics president Sebastian Coe, who termed any athlete that features in them “moronic” while the World Anti-Doping Agency called it "a dangerous and irresponsible concept".