If you were the head of the IAAF and had a positive drug test result for Bolt in your hands, what would you do?

expose him for the cheat he is (if positive). Then again if his agent paid off my student loans to keep quiet I would be very very tempted to "accidentally" lose the results. Even my moral fiber as a human being is in question when it comes to shaking off the yoke of student loans.

I would want to pray to him and not be mean to him. It might hurt his feelings if we even mentioned it. Pray to him..he is he God of your day.

I would publish the results in a New York minute. That's the only way to get rid of the cheats.

It would take me about 50 seconds to get over the initial shock and then I would do what the rules of the sport call for.

Give him a chance to come up with an injury that would keep him out of the WCs this year. Let him know if he gets caught again you won't hold back and will bring down the sport if necessary.

There is no such thing as bad press - blow the lid off of him. Get people talking about the sport. The stands will be packed regardless.

Just look at cycling this year - record viewers for the TdF.

dghfghghhhhhh wrote:

There is no such thing as bad press - blow the lid off of him. Get people talking about the sport. The stands will be packed regardless.

Just look at cycling this year - record viewers for the TdF.

I agree. I thought the recent Gay, Powell, etc. positives were good for sport. T&F (and other sports) can't be afraid of PED positives. If no one ever gets caught, then we know that sport has become a total sham.

It wasn't record viewers this year

Nice. Hummm. Maybe the two positives with Gay and Powell is the smokescreen. Just my imagination running wild here. Seems strange athletics are purging their own.

PhoenixRunner wrote:

Nice. Hummm. Maybe the two positives with Gay and Powell is the smokescreen. Just my imagination running wild here. Seems strange athletics are purging their own.

It's not strange. If you are a clean runner or you want clean runners to be able to have good careers in track and field, the dopers aren't "your own." Dopers need to be eliminated from the sport as much as possible for the good of the great majority of clean athletes.

probably the same thing they did with the positive tests for Carl lewis, Michael Johnson, El G, etc...

Send Bolt a scanned copy, along with the details ofmy Cayman Island bank account.

Resign on the spot. Sprint marketing will have been dragged down to severely ineffective, worse than the field events.

stupidned wrote:

Give him a chance to come up with an injury that would keep him out of the WCs this year. Let him know if he gets caught again you won't hold back and will bring down the sport if necessary.

This. Give him a first time warning and tell him to lay off or he's down and out. Track and Field needs personalities like Bolt to bring in fans and viewers. No one wants to watch Asbel Kiprop run a mile...everyone wants to watch Bolt decimate 100-200m.

Bolt is too big to fail. Just like Jimmy Savile.

First I'd say "I told you so." After that I'd expose him for the cheat that he is.

Start looking for another job.

Wouldn't bat an eye wrote:

I would publish the results in a New York minute. That's the only way to get rid of the cheats.

I think that's what you would want to do, but in the short term...

The result would be that in one New York second, the major IAAF sponsors would pull out, since the major "attraction" would be gone...

Bolt is super personable... Great for the sport...

With less money/resources, track would fall even lower than it is now

You would then be known as the guy who ruined track and field...

Remember, Ben Johnson (less personable guy) was caught. He was a major guy. Major anti drug reforms were put in place after that. However, just a few years later, all distance records (men and women) went down (EPO years and Chinese women). So, taking down the top dog did nothing to stop drugs...

The only thing that you know for sure is what would happen in the short term (sponsors running away in a panic)...

I hope that the IAAF head is not faced with that decision... It's not an easy one...

If they can expose ARod, then I don't see why there would be a problem with exposing Bolt.