Was watching the excellent French coverage on TV but I'm now revving up my VPN so I can experience Steve Cram's and the BBC crew's melt down for the schadenfreude. These insufferable idiots forced me to cheer for a guy who failed a doping test.
Was watching the excellent French coverage on TV but I'm now revving up my VPN so I can experience Steve Cram's and the BBC crew's melt down for the schadenfreude. These insufferable idiots forced me to cheer for a guy who failed a doping test.
Wow, you support Gatlin, a convicted doper, in order to bring down NOP and Mo.
Good lord, Rojo, you've hit rock bottom.
The main reason why bolt lost, is due to the fact he decided to not take his "special sauce",he honestly believed he didn't need his "special sauce". Well now he learnt you can't win without taking this "special sauce" and it seems like it would be his last lesson.
Props to Gatlin, he's carried that monkey for so long and despite the hostility kept it all together and ran a brilliant race.
Also, unlike most of the posters here ;-), he kept it classy. Not running with anger or defiance, just doing his best.
El Keniano wrote:
Gatlin gives a classy interview to FranceTVSport France 2. Heaps praise on Bolt, says it's not a revenge and ignores the booing crowd because "my parents are here".
I, for one, am happy for him. DUDE DID HIS TIME! What would have if we can't believe rehabilitation? The unforgiving nature of Americans is why a supposedly modern nation like yours continues to perpetuate barbarities like the death penalty.
I agree with you 100% on this .. Everyone deserve a 2nd chance in life .. The crowd were classless indeed , the man paid 4 his crimes already ,let him live
El Keniano, you've been on point recently. Big ups.
Davetherealone wrote:
#MAGA Trump president, and America wins the 100 again. Coincidence??
#MAGA Gatlin!!!
Must be wrote:
Isn't our sport so great? Convicted doper gets shot at redemption and wins world title at an advanced age. Laughable, our sport is a joke.
Sad but true.
rojo wrote:
Pondo wrote:Checkered past of doping. Long suspension. Keeps grinding for another decade anyway. Gets the title back at age 35. Incredible.
I've merged two threads into 1. I love the title of this thread.
It's weird but I respect Gatlin. The guy served a 4 year suspension. In the NFL, you serve a 4 game suspension. To sit out that long and come back isn't easy.
It amazes me that a wheel stadium will boo him but they are mad crazy about MO Farah whom there are many questions about. That's why the title to this thread is PERFECT. Life is messy/complicated.
Cheat or not, you've got to admit Gatlin was clutch tonight. Two years ago, Gatlin got tense and beat himself. Tonight, he stol it from Coleman and Bolt. I had written Gatlin off after his semi.
You are something else.
Somehow, admist the fact that a twice convicted doper wins the 100m you manage to twist this around and insult Farah again?
Truly despicable. Might even be proof that you simply dislike Farah for some personal reason Vs thinking he is a drug cheats, as Gatlin is a twice confirmed drug cheat and you are celebrating this here.
Totally biased nonsense from this site. Throw all your so called morals out the window because U. S. A. U. S. A.
Yes the dude is making a lot of sense lately
800ftw. wrote:
Somehow, admist the fact
LOL. Idiot trying to appear smart.
Guess Puma forgot to pay off the rest of the field or maybe they ran out money after Degrasse
Coleman won it for Gatlin.
He blew Bolt's mind out of the blocks and Bolt stood up straight. Meanwhile Gatlin was in lane 8 with no view of the finish. No chance to choke.
Bolt will rue the fact he choked in his last 100 m race. If Coleman could keep it together the last 30 he'd have won it all
El Keniano wrote:
I, for one, am happy for him. DUDE DID HIS TIME! .
Not really. He got both his drug cheat sentences reduced by 50% because of some lame excused, and never showed any regrets.
El Keniano wrote:
Gatlin gives a classy interview to FranceTVSport France 2. Heaps praise on Bolt, says it's not a revenge and ignores the booing crowd because "my parents are here".
I, for one, am happy for him. DUDE DID HIS TIME! What would have if we can't believe rehabilitation? The unforgiving nature of Americans is why a supposedly modern nation like yours continues to perpetuate barbarities like the death penalty.
Maybe if he'd been caught once and shown some contrition, then he perhaps would have deserved a second chance. But he's doped twice, which in my book deserves a lifetime ban. I'm glad the crowd booed him. It shows they're knowledgeable and not fickle like some others are.
Gatlin never said sorry for the damage he did to the sport and the long term benefits of steroid use are still not clear, even after stopping.
It's also rather worrying that someone from a nation who has had a very poor (well, actually non existent until quite recently) testing record and use of amongst its athletes, is so blase about Gatlin's misdemeanors, and would actually prefer a known double doper to win over someone who has never tested positive and has probably been the most tested athlete in the world over the last decade.
M 35 - 39 record for Gatlin
Deanouk wrote:
has probably been the most tested athlete in the world over the last decade.
Bolt most tested athlete in the world?
HAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHA!
You sir, are a big fat moron.
Deanouk wrote:
El Keniano wrote:Gatlin gives a classy interview to FranceTVSport France 2. Heaps praise on Bolt, says it's not a revenge and ignores the booing crowd because "my parents are here".
I, for one, am happy for him. DUDE DID HIS TIME! What would have if we can't believe rehabilitation? The unforgiving nature of Americans is why a supposedly modern nation like yours continues to perpetuate barbarities like the death penalty.
Maybe if he'd been caught once and shown some contrition, then he perhaps would have deserved a second chance. But he's doped twice, which in my book deserves a lifetime ban. I'm glad the crowd booed him. It shows they're knowledgeable and not fickle like some others are.
Gatlin never said sorry for the damage he did to the sport and the long term benefits of steroid use are still not clear, even after stopping.
It's also rather worrying that someone from a nation who has had a very poor (well, actually non existent until quite recently) testing record and use of amongst its athletes, is so blase about Gatlin's misdemeanors, and would actually prefer a known double doper to win over someone who has never tested positive and has probably been the most tested athlete in the world over the last decade.
This trope about double doper is a joke, look into his first "doping offense" it was complete BS. He had been on ADHD meds since a youth, didn't hide them at all and got caught up in a paperwork/bureaucratic snafoo (which the arbitration court found, too) and still had to pay a price for it.
Bolt's trips to his german doctor are totally innocent though, right??
Stating the obvious wrote:
Props to Gatlin, he's carried that monkey for so long and despite the hostility kept it all together and ran a brilliant race.
Also, unlike most of the posters here ;-), he kept it classy. Not running with anger or defiance, just doing his best.
No way Gatlin doped this time around. He may be a fool, but he ain't that kind of fool. When you've doped, as he did, and served your time, as he did--and lost four years, and seen all your achievements during that period and before thrown in the garbage--you head in a different direction, and you seek redemption.
The cynics imagine their being realists here, but in fact they're being fantasists. Don't you think Gatlin knows he's going to be subject to every sort of test, including future tests? No way he's doping, knowing just how closely his every move will be tracked, assessed, and judged.
Let me state that more pointedly: anybody who imagines that he's doping is, in fact, imagines that he's doping. Fantasy is fun and easy, but in the absence of facts, it's just an immature cheap shot. I'm a realist--which is why I celebrate his triumph and laugh contentedly at those who dwell in fantasy.
Deanouk wrote:
I'm glad the crowd booed him. It shows they're knowledgeable and not fickle like some others are.
They aren't Hayward Field snowflakes.
I think US track gets its politeness problem from being almost entirely a kids' sport where spectating means saying "good job" and "keep it up" and other mindlessly positive crap.