Justin Gatlin Calls it a Game

This is almost exactly true.

The answer to your question is that I now enjoy watching almost no top-level sprinters. I am finally fed up with their bullshhit.

Takes no energy at all to give a guy who has accomplished what he has the respect those accomplish deserve. I can't talk the great sprinters and not talk Justin Gatlin.  

Track has more of a cult following not unlike old blues music or H.P.Lovecraft, those into the sport get the PED thing,  so ya just roll with it.  I would follow track no matter what,  if ya get all shook up over a lone sprinter,  ya need to try another sport.

But it does. It takes a lot. It takes lowering your integrity to a very low bar. Especially when you can’t claim ignorance as a reason in continuing to lift someone like him up. Sorry, but rolling with it is exactly why nothing changes. And I have worked very hard to procure sponsors in our sport to little to no avail because the liabilities are too large and the cheats do too much damage to make it worth it. Plus they are extremely unlikeable on top of it. You embarrass the very sport you claim to love by not bringing any critique to the table and choosing to lift up those who willingly corrupt it as opposed to supporting the many others who are doing this sport good with integrity and in the spirit of competition not conquest. Cheats like Galton are out for conquest. That’s literally the antithesis of what our sport is. Sorry. You’re wrong on this. 

All athletes are out for conquest so...????   Give me an example of a world class sprinter you would be cool if I ....BRAVO~ great sprinter here he deserves big time respect......who would that be?  I am allowed to brag on...who?

Then you have no understanding of the difference between competition and conquest. The Olympics were built on this very difference. When nations even at war would put down arms to engage in healthy competition. Because it represents competition, not conquest. An athlete is out for conquest when they get to that point where they’ll throw anyone under the bus and break any rule in order to get ahead. You don’t seem to even know very much about Justin Gatlin other than seeing him win a lot of races. Onus is not on anyone else to do the homework for you. It’s not even 6 feet under, it’s pretty shallow digging to find what’s right there about the things he has done and has been part of and privy to in order to break laws, cheat others, and even to defame others in order to keep up the lies. You know what got Lance Armstrong caught? It wasn’t the doping. It was the attempts to destroy other people who spoke out against them to keep up the lies. You probably believed Marion Jones too when she went on an apology tour claiming she made a single mistake. She too was caught, cat totally out of the bag, engaging in a years long series of lies, manipulation, crimes, and ultimately even committed money laundering. Sorry, but again, you’re backing the wrong horses if this is the hill you choose to die on. Supporting ruthless people who could care less about you if you’re in their way. A fan of that? The same type of personality who would leave you for dead if given the choice. No honor in being Justin Gatlin or supporting him. 

He probably has so much scar tissue on his butt that he can't handle any more injections.

So take him off....

All Time Tennessee 4x1

Leonard Scott....Justin Gatlin...Sam Graddy...Christian Coleman

No All USA 4x1

Christian Coleman....Justin Gatlin...Tyson Gay...Mo Green

No lane in that All Time 100 and 200?

Pretend he never existed?

I first picked up on Justin Gatlin when he was a HS 300 hurdler ,  trust me I know all ya want to know about his entire career,,,,ok?

You apparently have no idea why we have sports,  it is all about....winning and conquest,  this....but I competed..hahaha!!!

So what world class sprinters are you ok with heaping praise on,  give me a few names.

Guess you’re not one who cares for consequences. Let’s just not do consequences. It’s too much to hold anyone accountable. You need heroes still right? A hero isn’t just the one who crosses first. Especially if they had to cheat the game to do it. And especially if you know they cheated the game to do it. Other athletes have had their records struck off, even in cycling Lance Armstrong was stricken from the record books. That’s what we sacrifice as supporters or fans or whatever your connection to it is. That’s what we give up in holding people accountable. To not do that is to pretend nothing corrupt has been done.   so it just continues so screw all the people who choose to do things the right way and with integrity. Because really that’s what you’re saying. Screw those suckers who walk the fine line to keep integrity on the up. They’re losers right cause they didn’t beat Gatlin? I don’t even feel sorry for that mentality. Because you know that is the same mentality people like Gatlin has. Ends justify the means. What a shame that that’s the argument you’ve brought to the table. And that’s the very prime reason our sport continues to be ignored by the masses and fails to render the support we do desperately ask for and demand. 

Do you ever answer a question?

So when talking world class sprinting who are you ok with bragging about?   Give me a few names where you'd be......what a great example of what is good about our sport, and e need more just like him.....what sprinter would that be?

You’ve completely missed the point of this entire exchange, and you miss the point about what sport is. It’s very nature. That there is more honor in beating someone in a race or in a game than in killing or destroying them. Conquest is about destruction, annihilation. That is why the nature of what Gatlin and those like him have done is so dangerous. It taints what we care about and fight for because it tears at and attempts to destroy the very sentiment and spirit of what it is we sweat and bleed so much to honor. They dishonor their profession. They dishonor the very practice of athletics. They dishonor the spirit of the Olympics, the pinnacle of what we claim to strive for. Can you be happy for another athlete for seizing the day when they win? Even if they beat you to do it? Can you cheer on those behind you and in front? Doesn’t dim your light or your drive to do that. Doesn’t make anyone weak to do that. That’s what competition is. Clearly you’ve come to this conversation unarmed, and very misguided. There’s no honor in your argument. So there’s really little left to say. 

Good bye to the ultimate 'DopeTard'!!!

Obviously you have never played football, boxed, not into MMA. All that above is great for some high school kids but in big peoples sports it is about destroy and conquer , so get real.

ONE MORE TIME

So what world class sprinters can we cheer on, well, who?

Just delete this thread, delete his medals, records and memory. 

make him a ghost, a phantom, a guy who doesn't exist. 

An enemy of track and field. 

I am very happy to see this. Dopers who stick around for another 18 years (or maybe fourteen after the second violation) are never welcome.

Good ridence. I was a huge fan and really thought he was going to be a great. Temhen he turned out to be a cheat. I'm so tired of these athletes that turn out to be doping a-hokes. Him, Giambi, Lance, Canseco, the most goes on.

I hate Brady with a passion but I have no doubt he was an all time great for more than a decade without doping. A little cheating here and there for sure, hence my hate, but nothing chemical.

Looking back at the great like Montana, Always, Nolan Ryan, MJ I don't think any of them reported to drugs and they are superstars. Stop it the rest of you dopers.

So what 100m sprinters is it ok with you to sing their praises and talk highly of, well?

Give him the Pete Rose treatment.