Bolt 9.88

Because he's popular. Publicity sells. Plain and simple.

P.S. I expect a post quoting the above and giving me a '+1' soon.

The Breakfast of Champions!!! wrote:

So do we actually know that Jamaica is legitimately testing their athletes and this "testing program" is not a shame? The East Germans also drug tested their athletes…and we all know how that turned out!

We do not. But we do know that since there has been an operating Jamaican Anti-Doping Agency, the track results for those training with Glen Mills is different. Same could be said for Jermaine Gonzalez who was expected to challenge for the gold in the 400.

There used to be active testing by the IAAF in Jamaica--but an article in the NYT in 2008 pointed out concern that the athletes (and their coaches) were being tipped off as to the presence of testers.

It appears to be more of a level playing field now. We could even have TWO white sprinters (Wariner and Borlee) on the podium in the 400.

Sprint Geezer wrote:

This was the kind of race biomechanicists predict Bolt SHOULD be running--inferior start, took a long time to get into top gear, then long-strided to the win.

Bolt said yesterday that he is not in 9.58 form.

No kidding.

He never will be. We will never see a 9.58 again in our lifetimes. It is a ridiculous, laughable time.

It's only because he's not doping right now and his PED-gains are slowly fading. And that's because of the increased scrutiny.

Give him two months of training and doping with assurances that he will not be tested and he'd have no problem whatsoever going under 9.58 again, repeatedly.

Someone PLEASE tell me what PED they belive Bolt is/was on, or just the family of PED

Also tell me why other athletes are not on the same thing, or if they are why cant they beat Bolt now

BTW- in my opinion Bolt is clearly suffering the negative effects of weight training. His ROM looks slightly shorter and his arm carriage relative to foot plant is definitely different this year.

They are all over Bolt because he is/was the most exciting runner ever. He dominated sprinting for 2 years in a way no other sprinter has.

He is obviously now showing that he is human, and that he can possibly be beaten in a major championship. Until he is caught doping, there is no need to crusade against Bolt.

Since his amazing 08-09 he has been hurt, become a multi-millionaire, and gained weight. Any one of those things could be affecting his performance today. I wouldn't rule out that he was doping, but you certainly can't conclude that he was doping for sure.

We're all track people here--but for non-track people, Bolt IS track and field. There is nobody else.

There was no way Bolt would be exposed during either the olympics or the subsequent WC's--he was the goose that laid the golden egg.

Unlike the Ben Johnson era, track is really big money now, for a lot of people. More people have more invested in track, and therefore in Bolt.

I doubt they'd bring Bolt down anytime soon, which is what is puzzling. If he WAS using in '08 and '09, and wasn't caught, why not use again? They wouldn't bring him down now, unless they had someone else golden to replace him with--and they don't. He's marketable, and nobody else is--they are either a-holes, wooden, lack personalities, tainted, ugly, or just plain dumb.

There is no other poster boy, so I think Bolt could use right now without any fear of being exposed.

So why are his times crap compared to what they used to be? Either he IS using and still failing, or he is NOT using and failing.

I think his failure is due to more to weights, aging, biochemical changes, loss of flexibility, laziness, etc. than to a lack of drugs. In my experience, tall people can do some amazing things when young, but they don't last--especially at weight-bearing activities like running. They break down faster, unless they are really thin. I don't know, just my opinion.

I'm still sure that no matter what he does, we will never again see 9.58 in our lifetimes--unless he goes really insane and does lines, a la Sotomayor.

Yes, you're crazy.

Carter has confirmed my opinion. He said: "I thought I had him. But in the last 20m I messed up right there."

Exactly. That was Carter's race and he gave it away, like he's done before.

Bolt got lucky, and both Bolt and Carter know it.

And so do I, and now so do you.

On bodog.com you can pick Usain Bolt to win Worlds in September with 2/7 odds. Im better against that because there is ALOT of money to be made. I would not even accept 1/2 odds that he wins. How do they have him at that much of a favorite?

Here are the odds to win the race:

Bolt... 2/7

Powell...5/2

Blake....12/1

Mullings...18/1

Dix......18/1

Mukusha....20/1

Gatlin....28/1

Frater....33/1

LeMaitre....50/1

Bailey....66/1

Bledmon.....66/1

Chambers....100/1

I am ABSOLUTELY putting down some money on Gatlin, Frater, and LeMaitre.. Those odds are way too good to pass up. What are you picks given these odds?

Also, I am making a new thread on this so post your thoughts on the new thread

Absolutely - the first time I saw Bolt race this year, I thought, "we may never see 9.58 ever again from him." He's gained too much upper body weight.

The Stache wrote:

Bolt looks way too big now. He looks labored during every race. That trademark acceleration from 20-60m where he just blows everyone off the f-ing track is not there. He is having to win Carl Lewis style - in the last 15m. This is not Bolt. Something is way off.

He fraid now.