Cayman Invitational tells press,'don't ask why Bolt pulled out of Jamaica Invitational and don't say words Yohan Blake'

This season will represent the toughest-ever test of whether or not the Jamaicans can hold together as a unit.

People in Bolt's position make enemies, sometimes from the ranks of those closest to them. On a ride like the Bolt Express, everybody has to be on the same page, or else the whole house of cards comes tumbling down.

If people are promised a piece of the action, and it either never materializes or is a much smaller piece than they were expecting or feel they deserved, the wheels come off. We are starting to see this disintegration in Jamaica.

Who knows how far the rot has gone, or if they can recover. If they can, they will likely offer up a sacrifice in so doing--if not, look forward to some fireworks.

Sometimes the best thing to do in situations like that is to stay well clear, which might be a tough thing to do if you're already involved.

What's unusual about that? Feeling well in running can be a very day to day thing. You can feel completely opposite after just a few hours of rest.

Or perhaps these guys just didn't want to race each other yet so they pulled out and faked an excuse story. It's happened before.

sersfes wrote:

What's unusual about that? Feeling well in running can be a very day to day thing. You can feel completely opposite after just a few hours of rest.

Or perhaps these guys just didn't want to race each other yet so they pulled out and faked an excuse story. It's happened before.

They weren't going to race each other. One was going to be in the 100 and the other in the 200. And lets be clear, it wasn't just Bolt pulling out of the JII. There was an epidemic of people pulling out, including Richard Thompson, AFTER Bolt pulled out. There were a couple other Jamaican athletes and, as I recall, a shotputter claiming a family emergency one day before the meet.

It certainly looked from his last race that Blake really is injured, but the rest of it is very suspicious.

It might even be more interesting to interview the person or persons who wrote those press "guidelines".

Although I don't know for sure, I would guess that the Cayman meet is all about betting. I don't think it's fixed, but I think that having it on their home turf gives them a revenue advantage.

I also think that there might be some back-handed incentives offered to certain headlining athletes, the opportunity to make a couple of bucks, shall we say.

Jeter and Bolt. What a pair.

The good battle will be between Merritt and Santos, hopefully they will both be healthy and feeling good.

Bolt FTW in 9.90 basic, not pushing his "injured" ham too hard.

feel a hamtweek on Thursday

pull out of Saturday

get mri showing zip on Saturday

wake up sunday and feel fine

race the next available pay check

nah ain't so simple being in the business of "Being Bolt"

Hey, it's the Cayman Islands after all. Maybe he just went there to visit his unlisted bank account :)

http://jamaica-gleaner.com/latest/article.php?id=42018

Well, I don't think he's going to go out in 9.73, as that would raise questions. Wouldn't surprise me to see him go out to 60-70 and shut it down--enough to earn his appearance fee and protect his "injury" ("I couldn't run the whole race hard because I'm injured"...and I don't want to let Tyson know my true shape).

sounds like another letsrun conspiracy theory

of course they're doping but could be to do with money anything

I love the way the brojos pull posts that point out their typos, but can't be bothered to fix their typos.

coach d wrote:

It certainly looked from his last race that Blake really is injured, but the rest of it is very suspicious.

It might even be more interesting to interview the person or persons who wrote those press "guidelines".

I knew people would go with the "drug suspicions". My first thought was, "There likley is a monetary dispute causing everyone to pull out." How do these random meets in carribean have hundreds of thousands to pay the appearance fees.

we be sprinters and stuff wrote:

feel a hamtweek on Thursday

pull out of Saturday

get mri showing zip on Saturday

wake up sunday and feel fine

race the next available pay check

nah ain't so simple being in the business of "Being Bolt"

I agree with you 100%. It seems odd to casual fans but I'm a big Orioles fan and the other day the star play Chris Davis reached for first base on a bang bang play and hurt his knee. Anyone watching was like "Oh ****, he just did something to his knee." He limped off the field. Everyone was freaking out.

He ended up taking one day off, got an MRI and came back with no problems (and apparently asked to come back the very next day). Basically he twisted his knee or something like an ankle.

Rojo--

You're well-enough seasoned to know that this is all about $.

Bolt is a revenue-generating property that must be managed. Among other things, tiny tweaks can be a cause for a no-go, because of the potential for catastrophic failure.

It is like a space mission into which much has been invested. You want everything to go right. You wait until all systems are go. Of course, sometimes you only have a certain launch window, and at some point you have to call "go".

Of course, none of what I just said in any way suggests that there was actually anything physically wrong with him last week.

Regarding the meet in the Caymans, do you know what the Caymans is all about? Money. It is a tax haven and a gambling center. SKN just hosted a conference on Caribbean FATCA compliance, because a lot of money moves through that region.

This meet is about betting. Cayman is looking to expand possibilities on its home turf to gain not only revenue advantages, but event control--and good for them. You will see this kind of thing emerging in other areas of the world as well. It didn't start in Cayman, there have long been meets and other events in places like Monte Carlo, but look for more secondary places to pop up in the future, with money and other incentives to offer. Think Dubai.

Remember Bolt's having pulled out of the meet at the last instant, in favor of the Cayman meet?

Rojo said he knew that somebody would bring up doping. It's probably no coincidence that the sample came from testing at the Jam invite, that the testing wasn't being done by JAM but by the IAAF, and that Bolt wasn't there.

Also, he is likely the only t&f athlete who is so protected, all the rest are probably fair game.

http://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=5171418

"Don't ask why Bolt pulled out of the Jamaica Invitational"

Funny how this "monetary dispute" doesn't apply to Tyson Gay, Allyson Felix, VCB, SAFP, and other who competed in the meet Bolt pulled out of. None of these come cheap, but many of the big names, including VCB, train in the US.

I'm suspicious of not just Bolt and Blake, but the entire Glen Mills/Racers Track Club. Did any of these compete in the Kingston meet after it became known that drug testing would be done by the IAAF?

Don't know if Rojo really doesn't know much, or whether he's playing to his sponsor (Puma who sponsors Bolt, of course).