lol, all the Jamaican fanboys representing.
All your "arguments" are old and useless. They have all been dealt with on this board.
Yes, Bolt is naturally a sub-10 guy.
Yes, he has doped.
Yes, Jamaica is covering up for him.
Yes, he is favored at the highest levels of the IAAF.
Yes, the testing system is absurdly flawed.
Yes, athletes can and do get around testing.
No, he doesn't need any special elixir unique to Jamaica.
Yes, the system is starting to show structural weakness.
No, it hasn't benefited all athletes equally.
Yes, there is resentment all over the place in Jamaica.
Yes, there are big problems between the 2 major camps.
No, no crooked enterprise can continue smoothly forever.
Yes, there are also doped Americans.
Yes, Bolt will win again if he dopes as he has in the past.
Yes, it is possible that Gatlin is continuing to dope.
Yes, there is much evidence that Bolt has doped.
Yes, it has been presented and discussed on this board.
Yes, I am personally convinced that 9.69, 9.58, and 9.63 were doped.
No, I don't think that Bolt has always used.
No, I don't think that Bolt is using now.
Yes, there are sprint dopes that work very well and very quickly on a normally-trained athlete.
Yes, I do believe that Bolt has one of the fastest-ever, if not the fastest-ever, clean 100m time.
No, I don't know if sprint dope has any long-term benefit.
Yes, it is possible that Gatlin retains long-term benefit from his prior use.
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You fanboys are a joke. You keep moving the goalposts, because you can't make a good argument that he is clean, and you can't respond in any convincing way to arguments that he has doped.
When your only response to argument and evidence that he has doped is that he hasn't returned a positive test, your singular response is met with the devastating examples of Marion and Lance.
You then move on to show how he was terrific as a junior and other various arguments, which have all been met with counter-arguments using examples of other great juniors, 100m vs 200m training, injury patterns, etc., which makes his excellent junior history equivocal on the issue of whether he has used.
You then point to his physical attributes, which you argue are unique. That argument is met with the response of Francis Obikwelu and others, and is at least equivocal.
You then try to claim that there is superior training and motivation in Jamaica. That argument is met with examples of more WR's from American athletes, and the fact that many Jamaicans train in the US under American coaches.
You then try the superior food argument. You are met with the response that yams, mangoes, breadfruit, roti, all that stuff is available elsewhere, and was and has been available to Jamaicans for a long time, but the absolute dominance only arrived recently.
You then try the superior selection argument. You are met with the response that the world is a big place and that even if Jamaica did have better recruitment, which is not proven, the world is a big enough place to offset any unproven inferior recruitment effect.
You then turn to the best one of all, the genetic argument. Championing this argument you have morons like MJ who wants everybody to believe that hundreds of years ago, slaves were selectively bred for their 100m performance capability. That receives a huge LOL and massive response from those who are more willing to argue absurdity than I am.
All of your arguments are necessarily responses to the credible argument that he has doped. If the argument had no credibility, you could just attack the evidence and argument provided, rather than having to raise entirely separate issues and argument, with gossamer, if any, connections to sprint performance.
The methodology you use is not to formulate a cogent argument and then to look at facts to see whether or not they support the argument--instead, you arbitrarily choose random facts--food, climate, sociology, genetics, culture, height, etc.--and you try to build an argument upon those facts, which arguments are without foundation. Where is the study showing that eating yams makes you faster?
Your arguments carry no weight because, with few exceptions, they have no rational connection to the ultimate topic of interest, 100m sprint performance.
Forget about the past, it's done with. Look to the future. Guys like Ashmeade, Weir, KBC, Young, etc--those are the guys you should be looking toward.
STOP BEING FANBOYS. Find the good in things--and the good in the Jamaican program is to be found among some of the younger crop, both men and women, and not in 9.58 How many times have you heard me sing the praises of Ashmeade and Weir, guys I believe are cleanly capable of 9.8x and ultimately maybe 19.6x-high. How many times have you heard me praise Donovan Bailey, of Jamaican stock. How many times have you heard me say that all the super-fast guys I knew growing up were Jamaican?
You can praise honorable Jamaicans for their stunning success, but you should also be able to look critically at ones who are questionable, the same as is done for any other country--for instance, in the US, Gay can be praised but Merritt can be questioned; in Canada, Gilbert could be praised but Williams questioned.
You need to get your heads out of your butts. There is nothing honorable, interesting, or compelling about blind loyalty to a sports persona/entertainment property, there is only pathos. You have been marketed-to, and all you are doing is exhibiting brand loyalty.
Why don't you try thinking for yourselves for a change.
Your big problem is that you are so blindly loyal to this image that was constructed for media consumption, that you don't even acknowledge the possibility of doping, while those of us who advance the argument do concede that there is the non-zero chance that he is clean.
Anybody who takes such an absolutist position over so long a period of time is simply irrational.
Fair enough, if that's how you are--but know this: your prior exuberance has turned to desperation, as your world is crumbling around you. If it continues to crumble, you have earned every bit of the disparagement that we will heap on you, and upon your heroes. I don't think you've earned any mercy, either.