Ol Mo Fo wrote:
THIS is the only hope in the world of sprinting. Every other sprinter in that final has been busted or is protected. Bolt may be "The Savior" of the IAAF right now (in facade only), but Bromell and DeGrasse represent the hope that professional track can ever have a clean sprinter ever again.....
D-Nice wrote:For some reason, I'm most excited about De Grasse and Bromell tying for bronze.
Is there a reason why people think they are clean?
xmxmxmxmmxxmxnxnxnmzzmzm wrote:
Ol Mo Fo wrote:THIS is the only hope in the world of sprinting. Every other sprinter in that final has been busted or is protected. Bolt may be "The Savior" of the IAAF right now (in facade only), but Bromell and DeGrasse represent the hope that professional track can ever have a clean sprinter ever again.....
Is there a reason why people think they are clean?
I believe de grasse is clean. Scary thing is that he still has not straightened his arms, etc... And yet he has great times.
Why?
Cuban wrote:
Like all of those guys at the start line are not dopers
A nice illustration of the fact that simple-minded people have great difficulty coping with a complex world.
The obvious question: Then why do you watch?
European The Real One wrote:
Ow wow, you attended high school then. Was top of your topography class. Good lad. daaaaamn.....
Listen budddy, Those Gb's are the first one to tell you they arent like "those continentals". They don't even use the Euro as currency. How clear do you want to have it presented to you.
Great Britain is in Europe, just like Iceland, Ireland, Malta and Cyprus. This is a preposterous angle you've taken here.
I rooted for Gatlin harder than I have ever rooted for anyone. Why?Just to spite you.
Egun wrote:
Until today.
Justin Gatlin is the absolute last thing track and field needs, a unrepentant cheater.
Yoshitoshi wrote:
Cuban wrote:Like all of those guys at the start line are not dopers
A nice illustration of the fact that simple-minded people have great difficulty coping with a complex world.
The obvious question: Then why do you watch?
Because if they are all dopers it is an even playing field and makes for great competition.
Mo Farah and Paula clean? Mo Farah was outed during the NOP scandal. He was outed by Magness, by the Gouchers, etc. Poor Rupp, he's going to be the sacrificial lamb in this case, staying with Zalazar.
Contrary to that, Mo (adviced by British athletics) "leave"Alberto like a rat sinking the sinking ship.
And Paula...Paula...where's his speech against drugs? oh, what happened? is it because she's the girl with the abnormal blood levels? her silence is DEAFENING.
Let me gets this straight: IAAF has an agenda against certain athletes/countries.
I'm not saying that Gatlin is clean. But Usain Bolt have a "pass" from IAAF/IOC/Coe In the sense that media thinks he SHOULD "save the sport".
What kind of sport is he saving? a sport with 4 out of 9 100m finalists with doping sanctions? A sport with athletes like Josephine Onya, with 4 doping sanctions? A sport with a 5k/10k unbeatable athlete with a coach who -not long ago- said that "it is currently difficult to be among the top 5 in the world in any of the distance events without using EPO or Human Growth Hormone.”?
Hes a cheater so he doesnt really matter.. i dont count him among the finishers.
Gaitlin got wrecked. 2 time convicted doper got KTFO.
Well then it appears the present tally is:Egun 1, you 0
in spite of wrote:
I rooted for Gatlin harder than I have ever rooted for anyone.
Why?
Just to spite you.
Egun wrote:Until today.
Justin Gatlin is the absolute last thing track and field needs, a unrepentant cheater.
Why didn't Bolt run 9.58, it was too close that race. I wonder what Bolt thinks reading the articles claiming he's saved the sport knowing that he himself is not full natty brah.
L13 wrote:
European The Real One wrote:Ow wow, you attended high school then. Was top of your topography class. Good lad. daaaaamn.....
Listen budddy, Those Gb's are the first one to tell you they arent like "those continentals". They don't even use the Euro as currency. How clear do you want to have it presented to you.
Great Britain is in Europe, just like Iceland, Ireland, Malta and Cyprus. This is a preposterous angle you've taken here.
Well that's like totally your epinion...
By the way, there's an old saying in Tennessee, I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee that says, 'Fool me once, shame on ... shame on you. Fool me... you can't get fooled again!'
Justin Gatlin vows to boycott BBC and British media over ‘biased’ 100m reports
Every characterisation is solely about doping,’ says Gatlin’s agent
Gatlin finished second behind Usain Bolt in race built up as ‘good and evil’
The world 100m silver medallist, Justin Gatlin, has vowed to boycott the BBC and other British media at the championships in protest at their “biased” reports of his clash with Usain Bolt in Beijing.
The US sprinter, twice suspended for taking banned substances, was narrowly beaten by just one hundredth of a second by Bolt in a race that had been characterised as a battle for the soul of the sport or a clash between “good and evil”.
“He’s saved his title, he’s saved his reputation – he may have even saved his sport,” enthused the BBC commentator Steve Cram as Bolt crossed the line in 9.79sec, fractionally ahead of the seemingly unassailable Gatlin.
Footage posted on Twitter showed Brendan Foster and other BBC commentators celebrating as Bolt crossed the line and Gatlin is understood to have shunned the three different interviewers from the BBC after the race.
The sprinter believes he has been unfairly vilified by not only the BBC but the rest of the British media, who he feels have focused disproportionately on his doping past.
“Justin, as well as I, feel that the British media and journalists have been extremely unkind to him. There’s been nothing positive said about him now for some time. Every characterisation is solely about doping and vilifying him,” his agent Renaldo Nehemiah told the Guardian.
“So, to maintain his own dignity and self respect, he feels it best not to speak to them. It’s very unfortunate, but he’s been hurt tremendously by these attacks. And as human beings, we should be better than that. The BBC in particular should report without lacing their comments and reporting with biased views.” The BBC has yet to comment.
The US sprinter was first banned in 2002 after amphetamines were found in his system related to medication he had been taking for attention deficit disorder for 10 years. A two-year ban was later reduced to one.
His second ban in 2006, initially eight years but later halved to four, was blamed on testosterone he claimed was rubbed into his buttocks by a masseur with a grudge.
Since coming back to the track in 2010, the 2004 Olympic champion has gone faster and faster. Until his defeat by Bolt in the 100m final, Gatlin had gone 29 races unbeaten and at the age of 33 recorded a personal best of 9.74sec in Doha.
He has insisted that it is unfair to call him a “two time doper” given the nature of his first offence. “There’s no end to this,” he told Sports Illustrated earlier this year. “I served my time. I did my punishment. I sat out four years and here I am, still getting punished for something that happened to me, literally, a decade ago.”
Gatlin was asked three times about his doping past in the post-race press conference on Sunday night and each time answered: “I am thankful.”
When he was then asked whether he thought the sport’s governing body, the IAAF, would be relieved that Bolt had won he again replied: “I am thankful.” His questioner walked out in disgust.
For his part, Gatlin may believe there is nothing more to be said on the subject and feels unfairly singled out given there were three other competitors in the final who had also served doping bans (the Americans Tyson Gay and Mike Rodgers, along with Bolt’s Jamaican team-mate Asafa Powell).
Gatlin will clash again with Bolt in the 200m later this week, with the final on Thursday due to be just the second time they have raced over the distance.
Before winning the vote to become the next president of the IAAF, Sebastian Coe had said the prospect of Gatlin winning the 100m made him feel “queasy”. But he subsequently said that there was nothing in the rules to prevent the American running having served his bans.
The International Olympic Committee president, Thomas Bach, said last week he would favour lifetime bans but accepted they were not legally enforceable. “If you have an athlete who has served his suspension then he has the right to participate in championships,” he said.
I root for Gatlin because he speaks up for himself and makes sense, as opposed to the idiots who oppose him for no good reason other than that they are stupid.
Other then that, I'm not interested in the short events.
Are you saying you're a fan of Gatlin?
If you are then you're an idiot beyond belief.
You accuse Bolt of doping - with absolute zero proof - or are you going along with the flock "If everyone around him is doing, then he must be too?"
I'm going to assume that you're from the USA. Because let's face facts no-one outside the US is a fan of Gatlin, the proven doper!
As much as I dislike Gatlin, I can't lay all the blame solely on him. You have to look at who is making it possible for him to compete:
Nike - win at all cost organisation.
I am a fan of Gatlin. And I can guarantee you I aint no cowboy.
Get your facts straight, man. Do a google search or whatever you kids do nowadays.
We used to refer to McQuire, Bonds, and Sosa as 'world class" only to find out that Maris was in fact the standard.
Lance Armstrong was a "hero" at one point too... Theres no "good" vs "evil".. its the "caught" vs the "not caught, yet"...
Shameful Americans aren't backing Gatlin..
"All you guys lied! All of y'all and the story have lied. Should you have asterisks behind your name? All of you lied. All of you have said something wrong. All of you have dirt. When your closet's clean, then come clean somebody else's."
-Barry Bonds