Please, Jesus, Let Bolt Be Clean

laughifyouwant wrote: They all seem to have a respect for their competitors, Tyson and Crawford both praising Bolts run. Maybe because there not all pumped up twats like the juiced runners of yesteryear.

How much chance is there that Crawford is innocent? he ran with Gatlin under grahams juiced up team. He made comments about how much and how quick he added massive weight to his bench press, and then he ran really fast. Please. Crawford somehow escape this whole thing and disapeered from that camp as fast as he could when he knew the shit was going to hit the fan.

As for someone running fast at 16. Please. There are tons of highschool age guys using steroids. People start that crap as early as 14 on their own when they hit HS and someone convinces them it will make them better. People seem to have this squeeky clean feeling about anyone in HS....do you not remember what people were like in hs!?

so stunned wrote:

laughifyouwant wrote:

Has anybody considered that drugs might not be very helpful in the mens 100m? I mean it's good power to weight ratio that you need not huge muscles. Look at Dwain he didn't get any better with the drugs he just got bigger.

not all drugs make you bigger. some make you able to recovery faster and train more. think about distance runners taking drugs - are any of them big?

Ok for "drugs" I basically meant steroids. But on the training front most serious athletes, epsecially distance runners, tend towards overtraining and injury anyway. Training more, and by more I mean a whole shitload more, does not necessarily make you better either.

I realise that there is very little chance that Crawford hasn't done steroids in the past, I've always suspected him of taking drugs as a football player and then as on of Grahams athletes. He was just of of the sprinters that has been quoted so far on Bolts WR so that why I mentioned it as part of a general atmoshpere of good sportmanship among sprinters at the moment.

mrr82 wrote:

As for someone running fast at 16. Please. There are tons of highschool age guys using steroids. People start that crap as early as 14 on their own when they hit HS and someone convinces them it will make them better. People seem to have this squeeky clean feeling about anyone in HS....do you not remember what people were like in hs!?

Maybe in American high schools.

laughifyouwant wrote:

Has anybody considered that drugs might not be very helpful in the mens 100m?

Of course they are not very helpful. That is why so few fast sprinters have ever been connected to drugs.

I don't know whether Bolt is clean. But imagine you are the best in the world in an event in which everyone seems to be dirty. If you are clean, wouldn't you be shouting it off the roof tops? Wouldn't you be volunteering your blood at every corner? I have no reason to suspect Bolt of cheating (other than his time, which isn't fair), but I just don't hear him shouting loud enough.

Mr. Obvious wrote:

laughifyouwant wrote:

Has anybody considered that drugs might not be very helpful in the mens 100m?

Of course they are not very helpful. That is why so few fast sprinters have ever been connected to drugs.

Show me the science. There is none.

seppo1237 wrote:

I don't know whether Bolt is clean. But imagine you are the best in the world in an event in which everyone seems to be dirty. If you are clean, wouldn't you be shouting it off the roof tops? Wouldn't you be volunteering your blood at every corner? I have no reason to suspect Bolt of cheating (other than his time, which isn't fair), but I just don't hear him shouting loud enough.

Perhaps as he crossed the finish line he should be shouting "I'M CLEAN" Would that help?

laughifyouwant wrote:

Maybe in American high schools.

Steroids are just as big if not bigger in Jamaican hs's with prominant sports programs. Some people say but so and so can't afford drugs in those countries...people who say that just don't understand. Drugs are huge in poor countries. Aside from the fact the prices are just cheaper, you will have dealers sometimes just giving them to certain people with the hopes of getting big dividends if the person becomes great. Steroid dealers pray on those in the spotlight at young ages when they don't know better. It also helps their sales, when they say so and so is using them. It's underground advertising. They pick a ring leader, and give him the drugs cheap or for free, and his buddies end up being the one the dealers make the money off of.

mrr82 wrote:

laughifyouwant wrote:

Maybe in American high schools.

Steroids are just as big if not bigger in Jamaican hs's with prominant sports programs.

So where are you from? How do you know this? Are there any articles about this? ie. something along the lines of "Steroid abuse in Jamaican High Schools"?

Unfortunately, there is every reason to suspect that Bolt may be dirty. It's not his fault but he's playing in dirty water.

My opinion: IAAF should require a frozen blood sample for a WR to be ratified that can be tested at any future date. In fact, Bolt should insist this be done to honor the sport and his accomplishments. He can keep his own sample if he wants to contest future results. It seems the solution here is really not rocket science.

What a dope! Where are you pulling this stuff from? Why can't Americans just deal with the fact that there are better athletes than them elsewhere in the world?

I'm neither here nor there as to if Bolt is clean. What cracks me up though are the references to him just doing speed work, the 2 is his best race, yada yada yada. You mean you just broke the 100 WR by accident? Sweet, more power to you.

He has only run under 10 seconds twice in his career, don't know how many times he has run the 100 before this year but when you have a break through like this it is going to make you wonder how. If he has been on steroids since high school I doubt he would just break through now

So mrr82, for how long were you selling on the streets of Montego Bay?

Anyone who believes Bolt is clean is a naive fool.

Plenty of hs kids take steroids. I knew of several kids in junior high who were taking them, and I'm from a town of 20,000 in the midwest. If a 13-14 year old can get them in my town, it's pretty easy to believe someone of the same age could get them in a country like Jamaica. Anyone remember the stories of kids shooting up at the tracks in Morrocco?

Even if he was clean before, you don't go from 10.03 (or whatever it was) to 9.72 in less than a year.

Let's be serious, here, people. The bar was raised too high too many years ago by druggies - so no way a clean athlete can break into the world record club now...

Anyone who believes Bolt is clean is a naive fool.

Plenty of hs kids take steroids. I knew of several kids in junior high who were taking them, and I'm from a town of 20,000 in the midwest. If a 13-14 year old can get them in my town, it's pretty easy to believe someone of the same age could get them in a country like Jamaica. Anyone remember the stories of kids shooting up at the tracks in Morrocco?

Even if he was clean before, you don't go from 10.03 (or whatever it was) to 9.72 in less than a year.[/quote]

Great logic. That explains Alan Webbs 3:53! It also explains Ryan Hall's marathon PR this year, and Shalane Flannagan's recent times.

return of the P wrote:

Anyone who believes Bolt is clean is a naive fool.

Plenty of hs kids take steroids. I knew of several kids in junior high who were taking them, and I'm from a town of 20,000 in the midwest. If a 13-14 year old can get them in my town, it's pretty easy to believe someone of the same age could get them in a country like Jamaica. Anyone remember the stories of kids shooting up at the tracks in Morrocco?

Even if he was clean before, you don't go from 10.03 (or whatever it was) to 9.72 in less than a year.

Who are you to say how fast someone can improve. Most of the improvement has come from his start, his speed maintainence has always been awesome.

So what's Jamaica like then? You don't know anything. It's obvious that all the American posters can't handle that a Jamaican sprinter is the best at the moment.

i was wondering when you were going to raise your stupid head "mr. i can't say whether x could have run y time without drugs - its possible." thanks buddy - its possible that monkeys could fly out your mom's ass. as usual you have to pop in here and proclaim that everyone is innocent.