World champion American sprinter who medaled in Olympics joins competition allowing steroid use

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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.

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Fred Kerley reacts after the men's 4x100m relay final during the Paris 2024 Olympic Summer Games at Stade de France.  (James Lang/USA TODAY Sports)

Kerley won a bronze medal in Paris in the summer in the 100 meters, while teammate Noah Lyles earned his first Olympic gold, and a silver in the Tokyo Olympics. He also has world championships in the 4x400-meter relay in 2019 and the 4x100-meter relay in 2023.

The sprinter has had legal troubles dating back to last year. According to an arrest affidavit obtained by Fox News Digital in January, Kerley and his wife got into a verbal, and then physical, dispute on May 6, 2024, his birthday, when Kerley's wife was in contact with an "unknown person on Instagram."

Kerley approached his wife aggressively, and she punched him out of fear, according to the affidavit. Kerley then "grabbed the victim, pushed her to the ground, encircled his arm around her neck and impeded her breathing." A probable cause alert was then entered into the jail's system, and he was subsequently charged following the January arrest.

In May, Dania Beach police arrived at a south Florida hotel before 8 a.m. ET after Olympic hurdler Alaysha Johnson claimed Kerley hit her during a conditioning appointment for a meet.