If it turns out that Bolt is dirty, is our sport ruined forever?

Only if sportswriters forever refuse to take their collective head out of the sand and realize every other major sport on the planet is at least as riddled with drugs.

So in a word, yes.

The home run king is dirty. Is baseball ruined?

I THINK sprinting will always be popular, drugs or no. I think , however, it will be even worse than the BEN JOHNSON fiasco.

No. The sprints may be ruined forever, but not the distance events.

People who understand the sport will realize that not all runners and events are the same.

But the sprints will be DEAD.

Tommy2Nutts wrote:

No. The sprints may be ruined forever, but not the distance events.

People who understand the sport will realize that not all runners and events are the same.

But the sprints will be DEAD.

Distance events are already ruined. It sucks.

in my heart it will be...in my heart.

only until the next drug comes out that allows someone to run .1 sec faster than Bolt ... then everyone will pile on and say that the new guy is clean ... even though we all know that it is impossible for a clean guy to run faster than a decades of guys doped to the gills ... and then some. jesus - ben johnson was so doped the dude's yellow eyes were bugging out of his big mellon head ... but, that was way back in the time of innocence when there were only steroids ... now you got steroids, hgh, epo, "add drugs", etc. etc.

Maybe you should not have any more. Just a suggestion.

Track Fan wrote:

Just a thought.

Dumbasses who keep using the excuse that people beat other people that doped up ton are by DEFAULT dopers, need to just shut the f*** up and go back and get their GED already. Seriously how f***ing dense are you people?

Lasse Viren trained a ton, and was 'doped to the gills' with blood transfusion, which is far more effective than the sneaky ways athletes would have to dope nowadays.

And you're telling me everyone that has run faster than Lasse Viren has to dope? I don't buy that for one second.

would football be ruined forever if a football player tested positive for steroids? wait i think it may have happened before, people still watch.

It's obvious to some of us who have seen enough to know that Bolt is probably as dirty as they come. Never ran the 100m before this year and just tears the event a new a-hole in 8 months or less? Seems like nobody is questioning his progression, maybe nobody wants to. How many times did WADA go knocking on his door for out-of-comp testing in the past year? Did the Jamaican Federation ever test him outside of competition?

Just like football players, sprinters are basically gladiators for the audience. I don't think most people care if they're cheating. It's not like many people sprint or play football on the weekends.

Unfortunately I think you have to look at public opinion here. People think track is a dirty sport already. They are just starting to talk about track again after Bolt's performance if he is found to be dirty I would have to say it would completely ruin peoples opinion of track. Basically what has happened with cycling even though I applaud them because I think they are doing the best job of catching dopers and making it very hard to dope. The major sports (baseball, football, basketball) all catch people but so far it has been easily overlooked.

mother clucker wrote:

only until the next drug comes out that allows someone to run .1 sec faster than Bolt ... then everyone will pile on and say that the new guy is clean ...

even though we all know that it is impossible for a clean guy to run faster than a decades of guys doped to the gills

... and then some. jesus - ben johnson was so doped the dude's yellow eyes were bugging out of his big mellon head ... but, that was way back in the time of innocence when there were only steroids ... now you got steroids, hgh, epo, "add drugs", etc. etc.

you're a class one idiot!

Captain Overboard! wrote:

It's obvious to some of us who have seen enough to know that Bolt is probably as dirty as they come. Never ran the 100m before this year and just tears the event a new a-hole in 8 months or less? Seems like nobody is questioning his progression, maybe nobody wants to. How many times did WADA go knocking on his door for out-of-comp testing in the past year? Did the Jamaican Federation ever test him outside of competition?

This sport is already fuked if idiots like you keep suspecting any quality performancers to be doping!

Don't resort to projection, Pollyanna. Why are you even looking at this thread, your head is supposed to be in the sand.

no, because bolt IS dirty the sport is NOT ruined.

Captain Overboard! wrote:

It's obvious to some of us who have seen enough to know that Bolt is probably as dirty as they come. Never ran the 100m before this year and just tears the event a new a-hole in 8 months or less? Seems like nobody is questioning his progression, maybe nobody wants to. How many times did WADA go knocking on his door for out-of-comp testing in the past year? Did the Jamaican Federation ever test him outside of competition?

What do you mean "nobody is questioning his progression"? Quite apart from what has been written about it in the main-stream media, you have posted this on a thread that is effectively questioning his progression.

WADA don't go knocking on anyone's door, they don't perform testing, they just monitor the process. That Jamaica doesn't have a national anti-doping body is well known and has been discussed at length. However the IAAF does perform out of competition testing. Bolt was tested more than 4 times last year:

Tommy2Nutts wrote:

No. The sprints may be ruined forever, but not the distance events.

People who understand the sport will realize that not all runners and events are the same.

But the sprints will be DEAD.

That's an idiotic statement considering that the sprints are by far the most popular events and the only events consistently televised. Not to mention your idea that athletes in other events don't dope, which is even more idiotic.