Fred Kerley has compared himself to a diamond. After a decent run at the Paris Olympics, Kerley has once again clinched a podium finish in the recently concluded Lausanne Diamond League. Running in the men’s 200m, Kerley clocked a time of 19.86s to finish in the third position. However, apart from his exceptional performance on the track, the main buzz around Kerley is his upcoming project. 

And with a new project under his belt, Fred Kerley seems to be switching from his otherwise silent persona. While Kerley is not known to be a great talker outside of track and field, the US athlete took to his X account to post quite a daunting message. Kerley’s words read, “When you’re pushed to the edge, remember: you can’t terminate greatness. Pressure makes diamonds.” This comes just days after Fred Kerley vented his frustration with Netflix’s superhit documentary, ‘Sprint.’

Calling the overly popular documentary “a YouTube doc”, Kerley stated that the documentary focused significantly on Noah Lyles and Sha’Carri Richardson. Expressing his fed-up state with the series, Kerley wrote on his X account, “That show is not about sprinting.” According to the latest updates, Fred Kerley has teamed up with SDLN Creative in what looked like an upcoming documentary on the Paris Olympic bronze medalist. 

Surprisingly, Kerley’s recent mannerisms of lashing out on social media are a welcome change in his personality. During several of his races where he could not attain his desired result, Kerley chose to remain silent instead of giving a reply. In fact, Kerley ignored the media and ran into the dugout after ensuring a place in the Paris Olympics at the US Trials. Thus, it is evident that the usual non-talker Fred Kerley has undergone a remarkable change. And well, the Netflix docu-series has not only disheartened Fred Kerley but has also garnered significant criticisms due to a series of misses. 

Sprint:1 fails to impress fans, critics and Fred Kerley

Fred Kerley stated that the Sprint season 1 focused too much outside of sprinting. As a matter of fact, Kerley did not get significant screen time which led him to get frustrated. The show also did very little to focus on the World Championships. And well, it was not only Kerley. Echoing similar sentiments, RuningMagazine also listed a total of four major flaws in the series. 

Chief among them was ‘too much of Noah Lyles’. The website pointed out that despite Lyles being one of the biggest names in the show, the amount of screen time allotted was just too much. Such an imbalance resulted in the other athletes getting significantly less exposure, which might have made the audience feel a little bored with the production. The review even went as far as to state that the series could have well been titled “Noah Lyles: Road to Olympic Superstardom instead of Sprint.” Thus, with Fred Kerley starting to open up about his displeasures, it now remains to be seen how things pan out in the future.