Gatlin ran 19.86 as a FRESHMAN at Tennessee

Didn't he get busted for modafinil or something like that?

If you have a stimulant boost and the right angled tailwind, anything is possible in the 200.

I'm not defending Gatlin at all, but most people don't have the fact straight about his first positive test. The positive test was for Adderal, which he'd been taking for ten years to treat ADD. Due to an odd set of circumstances, he didn't file a TUE. The best summary of the entire affair is here:

http://www.usada.org/wp-content/uploads/GATLIN_AAA_CAS.pdf

Key quote:

"While Mr. Gatlin may have violated the IAAF anti-doping rules in that he did not first seek an exemption from the IAAF for his medication before he competed, he certainly is not a doper. This Panel would characterize Mr. Gatlin's inadvertent violation of the IAAF's rules based on uncontested facts as, at most, a "technical" or a "paperwork" violation."

As far as his second positive test goes, f**k that jagoff and his lame excuse that he's apparently dumb enough to actually believe himself. But to say he intentionally doped when he failed his first test runs counter to any legal finding.

People say Gatlin shouldn't be running PBs past his prime. Yet his ban lasted from 2006 to 2010, which supposedly should have been his prime ages of 24 to 28. Maybe he could have been a 9.6 runner those years and we are only seeing him before and after his prime. How much did he train during those years?

I'm sorry but the lifespan of sprinters is NOT 15 years and it doesn't matter how talented someone is. If he wins gold in 2016 12 years after doing it in 2004 what a mockery it will make on this tarnished sport. He is running lifetime bests at 33 that are also top 5 times EVER run EVER. Nobody can respect a sport about raw performance when it is so blatantly f($)$:3 up. Two Olympics is about the full life cycle for 100 meter sprinters at their best, history doesn't lie. Justin Gatlin will be caught again or shot. Either way he will die in jail.

whoopty doo

whoopty doo

Isotope test this guy the next extended

training block he has.

gone . If never going to go near bolt

then someone needs to be taken down

to show they are wining the doping battle

and someone caught before perfect.

Perfect post worlds story.

and bolt looks cleaner than ever even

if loses ,lost to doper.

Time to start isotope testing iaaf ........

As for his 200m time in college ,

he clearly started splashing the testosrerone at very least

on that first winter in college.

obviously natural talent but still

be stuck around 9.95-10.10 mark

and hormones would of well burned out

by now.

He also had a nice little 4 year break. A lot of wear and tear was saved in that time period.

Is he a cheat... yes. Is it possible, at age 33, to run faster than you've ever ran?... yes. Especially given the circumstances.

sure the guy ran fast and so a progression can be implied that vindicates his recent performances. and sure he got busted and did his time. that doesn't mean I have to like him or cheer for him, or have any respect for him.

It's pretty clear that the sprints are tainted. As such, I'm loving Gatlin. I love the fact that he basically called Bolt out before the race and then dropped a bomb and said that was for him. Would be nice to see them run against each other but I just see Bolt dodging him at this point. Would be nice if that motivated him to start working harder. And let's stop with the whole Gatlin needs to be busted stuff. Bolt is just as dirty. And what happens if he does get busted. Do we then sit back and watch another cheat win and pretend that the sport is clean?

I do run run run wrote:

... Two Olympics is about the full life cycle for 100 meter sprinters at their best, history doesn't lie...

2 words.

Kim Collins

Does anybody know what Gatlin did for those four years? Training? Lifting? Diet? Was he working?

He tried to make the NFL. He noticeably shrank after that failed. He also claimed to be broke near the end of his suspension. Not sure if he worked a real job though.....

"He also won dual NCAA titles in the 100M dash and 200M dash, the first freshman to double in the events at the NCAA Outdoors since 1976. People seem to forget how ridiculously talented this guy is."

Because NOBODY dopes in HS or NCAA, right?

You dumb F U C K.

You Know Me wrote:

Does anybody know what Gatlin did for those four years? Training? Lifting? Diet? Was he working?

He never stopped training, 5 days a week, in the rain, in the heat and half the time by himself. Gatlin did this for about 5 years with no competitions on his schedule. During this time most people didn't know weather to feel sorry for him or think he was crazy. I was as amazed by this as his recent performances. This is from a conversation I had with Gatlin in 2010, he also said he didn't need drugs to run fast and was determined to come back and prove it. He actually felt drugs slowed him down.

make sense wrote:

He's our best medal chance and no dirtier than anybody else who will toe that line in the final.

This may be true.

He is the same age as Tyson Gay who has a faster PR.

Should Gay dirty it back up to get back into contention?

So he admitted to you that he took them?

TrackCoach wrote:

You Know Me wrote:

Does anybody know what Gatlin did for those four years? Training? Lifting? Diet? Was he working?

He never stopped training, 5 days a week, in the rain, in the heat and half the time by himself. Gatlin did this for about 5 years with no competitions on his schedule. During this time most people didn't know weather to feel sorry for him or think he was crazy. I was as amazed by this as his recent performances. This is from a conversation I had with Gatlin in 2010, he also said he didn't need drugs to run fast and was determined to come back and prove it. He actually felt drugs slowed him down.

College is the best place to get any type drugs

As everyone in prison is at it should we give up and accept them back into our society. That muppet should be in prison for fraud

Good job supporting drug cheats though.