A meet built around performance enhancers just handed its 100-meter title to a guy who says he didn't touch them, SFGate reports. Olympic medalist Fred Kerley, one of four "non-enhanced" entrants at the first Enhanced Games in Las Vegas Sunday, won the marquee sprint in 9.97 seconds—well off Usain Bolt's 9.58 world record he'd been trying to beat—but still left the track talking. "Y'all gotta do better than that," he repeated on the livestream, referring to his opponents, and later adding that the field needed to "train a little harder, get on that s--t a little bit more."
That didn't sit well with third-place finisher Marvin Bracy-Williams, who said Kerley was trashing the event's premise. "He didn't do nothing spectacular," Bracy-Williams told reporters, adding that while he respects Kerley as a sprinter, he doesn't "vibe with" the perceived disrespect. Kerley first brushed off the dispute as friendly, then doubled down when told of Bracy-Williams' remarks: "I'm here to disrespect the field … I'm not here to be buddies. There's money on the line." The sprinter, banned from international competition for two years over missed drug tests, collected $250,000 for the win, while Bracy-Williams earned $75,000.
Color the Houston Chronicle unimpressed: Its article reads, "Kerley promised to 'destroy' records. On Sunday, he couldn't even break one from 1968," a reference to Jim Hines' 9.95 in that year's Mexico City Olympics. The AP reports Kerley's time would have put him in last place at the Paris Olympics. As for Bolt, his response to Kerley's performance was simply, "OK." It's not clear whether Kerley was actually clean for the run or just claimed to be; the Enhanced Games allows the use of performance-enhancing drugs and physical enhancements as long as they are FDA-approved.
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