Usain Bolt had the coldest response to Enhanced Games runner failing to break his world record

Fred Kerley's 100 metres time at the Enhanced Games was a long way short of the clean world record and Usain Bolt is still the fastest man in history.

Bolt ran 100m in 9.58 seconds at the World Championships in Berlin in 2009 and his record stands tall despite 17 years of talk and pretenders to the throne.

With the current crop of sprinters pushing at their limits and the likes of Gout Gout coming through into the senior ranks with a host of world-class junior milestones behind them, the prospect of Bolt's record falling is a persistent topic of discussion among the track and field fraternity.

It's the tallest of orders, though, and it stands for now. Beyond the theoretical and extrapolated, no athlete has come close.

That includes the sprinters who competed in the 100m at the Enhanced Games in Las Vegas, enhanced or otherwise.

The event, which presumably came about because it's buried somewhere in the Magna Carta and rules are woke, requires athletes to pass a medical check but does not test them for performance-enhancing substances.

Kerley, a 31-year-old American who is serving a ban until next year because of three missed drugs tests out here in the real world, hasn't been quiet about his intention to stroll through the 9.58-second barrier. "It's going to be destroyed," he threatened.

He won the 100 metres in Las Vegas after a repeatedly disrupted start, clocking in with a time of 9.97 seconds. Bolt's response couldn't have been shorter: "Ok"

Kerley banked $250,000 in prize money and claims he earned it clean.

Will Kerley return to running in the free world?

"God gave me fast feet for a reason," he said before the Enhanced Games run.

"I'm here to showcase my talent. You still have to work. Drugs aren't going to give you an advantage if you're not putting the work in.

Kerley will be released from his suspension in 2027, 11 months before the 2028 Olympic Games in Los Angeles.

Having been banned for whereabouts offences rather than a failed test and pledged to run without PEDs at the Enhanced Games, Kerley would surely be confident of meeting testing requirements before the Olympics.

Taking part in Las Vegas could yet stand in his way.

Sebastian Coe, the president of World Athletics, said in 2024 that any athletes competing in the Enhanced Games would be "banned for a long time."