Steven Francis who coaches the MVP Club in Jamaica (Powell, SAFP, and a bunch more) is one of the most successful and most respected people in sprinting. And it is worth noting that Steve Francis himself is thus far clean in this doping episode. The MVP Camp itself was not raided, MVP trainers were not arrested or visited. Apparently, the police raid centered solely on an individual that was hired by Asafa Powell or his agent over Steve Francis' objections.What follows here are tweets from a radio interview with Steven Francis on 7/15, which was linked by Ato Boldon. I am going to try to copy all of the Francis tweets from the interview because I don't know how long they will keep it up, but as of 7/15, the twitter source is here:https://twitter.com/grillhitz92If you want to know where all of the amazing performances SG talks about are coming from, this is Francis' answer:
If Francis is even close to correct, there are new steroids out there that they cannot catch, and they are setting athletes up with meaningless doping "positives" to cover this up.
Below are the tweets from the Francis interview. I'm trying to not put my own opinion here, and I have no idea how much of this is accurate, but my total disgust with the whole situation is palpable, and Francis is not someone I would reject out of hand even with some of his athletes testing positive for what appears to be a minor stimulant offense: