Kerley was banned for three whereabouts failures in 2024. Two in the leadup to the Olympics (May 11, June 13), one after (December 6).
He contested the first and third failures. A disciplinary ruled against him. Kerley has the option to appeal the decision to CAS. He is banned through August 11, 2027.
Kerley was banned for three whereabouts failures in 2024. Two in the leadup to the Olympics (May 11, June 13), one after (December 6).
He contested the first and third failures. A disciplinary ruled against him. Kerley has the option to appeal the decision to CAS. He is banned through August 11, 2027.
Why is the second link blacked out like certain files were? Especially when the first link says he was in West Hollywood.
Yes that's strange indeed.
In any case, long story short: 4 missed tests from May - December 2024 (two thereof on two consecutive days), no reason to discard any of those, so full 2 year ban. That period includes the Olympics in Paris, yet he gets to keep his medal. Sad but that's the rule.
Enjoy the Enhanced Games and then retirement, Fred!
In Kerley's statement, he says he was visiting a "friend" during the December 6, 2024 missed test. I can understand blacking out the friend's name, and even the city name, but it's definitely weird that it says "West Hollywood" in the press release but not in the decision. Is this some romantic issue he doesn't want to be public?
It says his results have been disqualified including prize money, does this mean he pays that back? Does that usually happen? Has anyone repaid a major marathon after a doping ban?
He was probably in jail. That's whereabouts he was.
should have just updated his app.... :D
So what are the chances that in Freds "glory" years of 2021 and 2022 he was clean? And I get it, a whereabouts failure isn't a positive test - but it's certainly not something great to be associated to.
Remember this is a guy that prior to 2021 - and the covid "era" had basically no history of running the 100m - in so much that his 100m PR heading into the 2020's was 10.49 as 19 year old. Yes he was decorated over 400m (43.6 and a US title in 2019) but not sure many people ever thought they would see a 400m to 100m transition like this. By the end of 2021 he was the Olympic silver medalist (after another Covid era "darling" and long jump to 100m convert, Lamont Marcel Jacobs) and a year later was World Champion and tied for 7th on the alltime list.
Nothing passes the sniff test on this guy. Never did and certainly doesn't now.
Kerley was banned for three whereabouts failures in 2024. Two in the leadup to the Olympics (May 11, June 13), one after (December 6).
He contested the first and third failures. A disciplinary ruled against him. Kerley has the option to appeal the decision to CAS. He is banned through August 11, 2027.
Why is the second link blacked out like certain files were? Especially when the first link says he was in West Hollywood.
Yes that's strange indeed.
In any case, long story short: 4 missed tests from May - December 2024 (two thereof on two consecutive days), no reason to discard any of those, so full 2 year ban. That period includes the Olympics in Paris, yet he gets to keep his medal. Sad but that's the rule.
Enjoy the Enhanced Games and then retirement, Fred!
Middle schools offer remedial reading classes. I suggest you enroll in one. You can also study to take the GED test while you are at it.
"... and his competitive results between 6 December 2024 and 12 August 2025 have been disqualified (including prize money, prizes and titles)."
In any case, long story short: 4 missed tests from May - December 2024 (two thereof on two consecutive days), no reason to discard any of those, so full 2 year ban. That period includes the Olympics in Paris, yet he gets to keep his medal. Sad but that's the rule.
Enjoy the Enhanced Games and then retirement, Fred!
Middle schools offer remedial reading classes. I suggest you enroll in one. You can also study to take the GED test while you are at it.
"... and his competitive results between 6 December 2024 and 12 August 2025 have been disqualified (including prize money, prizes and titles)."i
The Paris Olympics were Summer 2024- which was within the period he missed the tests, but not within the period his competitive results were disqualified.
Good morning. Note that you are not correcting me at all, because all I wrote was indeed correct. You just added when his DQ's started, which was not my point and therefore I did not mention that part before.
Let me be more detailed for clarity: 4 missed tests from May - December 2024 (two thereof on two consecutive days), no reason to discard any of those, so full 2 year ban. That period (May - Dec 24) includes the Olympics in Paris, yet he gets to keep his medal from the Olympics.
Sad but that's the rule because the DQ's start at the day of the third missed test, i.e. the rule violation. Therefore only the "results between 6 December 2024 and 12 August 2025 have been disqualified (including prize money, prizes and titles)."
The provisional suspension started on 12 August 2025, so his ban runs from 12 August 2025 to 11 August 2027.