Guilty by association. wrote:
So basically by being a sprinter and being fast, Bolt is automatically cheating. You and toady can talk around it all you want but this is the essence of your argument. There's no other basis for the claim than that.
If tomorrow somebody enters a meet and runs 7.58 for 100m, would you think he was clean? Lets say he even has run 10.00 when he was 15, 9.9 when he was 18. And then he makes this huge jump to 7.58. Would that, or would that not, cause you to doubt what he has done?
Well that is basically what Usain Bolt has done. He has had great progression early throughout his career, but the JUMP he has made in just one year is completely other-worldly. Him running 9.58 and 19.19 is the same to me as if he broke 8sec and 18 sec for the 1 and 2. They are both ludicrous times.
Now, I'm not saying that world records are impossible to do clean, and that every "fast" person should be thought of as cheating, but the simple fact remains that YOU CAN PASS EVERY SINGLE DRUG TEST THROUGHOUT YOUR CAREER, AND STILL BE DOPING. Negative tests is not proof enough that he is not doping. As we've seen time and time again with many athletes.
And just to repeat, everybody who runs under 9.80 sec, in my view, has a heavy shadow of doubt over them. Every single athlete that has done it (except for Gay, Bolt, Powell), has either been busted for doping, or had receipts and bank statements connecting them with drugs. That is a fact.
So you are telling me, that those times by athletes who BARELY get under 9.8, who were talented from a very young age, great training, great coaching, and great DRUGS, are now being SHATTERED by clean, PED-Free men?
I'm not saying that it is impossible, but I am saying that it is HIGHLY unlikely, and that Bolt (or any of those three for that matter) should be held to a higher level of testing, or that he himself should come forward and to truly say he is clean, get tested/analyzed by a 3rd party lab.