{"id":18926,"date":"2025-08-25T19:29:46","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T19:29:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/fred-kerley-provisionally-suspended-for-alleged-anti-doping-whereabouts-violation\/"},"modified":"2025-08-25T19:29:46","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T19:29:46","slug":"fred-kerley-provisionally-suspended-for-alleged-anti-doping-whereabouts-violation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/fred-kerley-provisionally-suspended-for-alleged-anti-doping-whereabouts-violation\/","title":{"rendered":"Fred Kerley provisionally suspended for alleged anti-doping whereabouts violation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">United States sprinter Fred Kerley has been provisionally suspended for an alleged anti-doping whereabouts violation, the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) announced on Tuesday. <\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Kerley, 30, who won 100m bronze at last summer&#8217;s Paris Games, could face a two-year ban if the charge is upheld. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The World Anti-Doping Code states an athlete cannot miss three anti-doping tests and\/or filing failures within a 12-month period.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/fkerley99\/status\/1955319478507454974\/photo\/1\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">statement posted on X,<span class=\"visually-hidden ssrcss-1f39n02-VisuallyHidden e16en2lz0\">, <!-- -->external<\/span><\/a> lawyers for Kerley said he intends to contest the allegation. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;[Kerley] strongly believes that one or more of his alleged missed tests should be set aside either because he was not negligent or because the doping control officer did not do what was reasonable under the circumstances to locate him at his designated location,&#8221; it added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/athletics\/articles\/cgqn4nyng2zo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>United States sprinter Fred Kerley has been provisionally suspended for an alleged anti-doping whereabouts violation, the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) announced on Tuesday. Kerley, 30, who won 100m bronze at last summer&#8217;s Paris Games, could face a two-year ban if the charge is upheld. The World Anti-Doping Code states an athlete cannot miss three anti-doping [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18927,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18926"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18928,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18926\/revisions\/18928"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}