Shuggie_Murray7 Posted August 28, 2015 Share Posted August 28, 2015 Is Bolt clean or is he a doper? To me it is almost certain that Bolt is not clean. I've found it strange that there have been so few doping claims against him. He is beating proven drug cheats easily. Most of the doping questions put to hin this week have been about Justin Gatlin. Do more questions need to be asked? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Romeo Posted August 28, 2015 Share Posted August 28, 2015 ^^^ On steroids. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveThePirate Posted August 28, 2015 Share Posted August 28, 2015 He's been unbelievable since the age of about 14, maybe earlier, as opposed to coming out of nowhere and suddenly running these incredible times. It's something I've always been wary of though, and if it were found he was doping, could potentially ruin the sport as a whole. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stephen Malkmus Posted August 28, 2015 Share Posted August 28, 2015 In almost all instances of doping in professional sport, it involves someone who improves rapidly in a short period of time during the middle of their career or there are other factors which would cause doubts. The main doubts against Bolt would probably centre on the Jamaican federation's lax drug testing. "Dr Paul Wright told the BBC that the Caribbean island's anti-doping regime had been woefully short of the international standards required." http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/athletics/24900565 . Of course, he would still be tested regularly in international competitions and, as mentioned above, he has been running incredibly good times since he was very young. If you want to see someone who is almost certainly doping imo, look at Novak Djokovic and his gluten free diet transformation / weird egg treatment thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
throbber Posted August 28, 2015 Share Posted August 28, 2015 ^^^^ Andy Murray Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DigOutYourSoul Posted August 28, 2015 Share Posted August 28, 2015 In almost all instances of doping in professional sport, it involves someone who improves rapidly in a short period of time during the middle of their career or there are other factors which would cause doubts. The main doubts against Bolt would probably centre on the Jamaican federation's lax drug testing. "Dr Paul Wright told the BBC that the Caribbean island's anti-doping regime had been woefully short of the international standards required." http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/athletics/24900565 . Of course, he would still be tested regularly in international competitions and, as mentioned above, he has been running incredibly good times since he was very young. If you want to see someone who is almost certainly doping imo, look at Novak Djokovic and his gluten free diet transformation / weird egg treatment thing. You could easily add Nadal into this, IMO. On Bolt: I want him to be clean as the sport needs its greatest ever athlete to be clean. As people have already said it's not like he arrived from nowhere, broke the world record and was suddenly the best in the world. He'd been a star in the making since his early teens. I just find it hard to believe he's beating all of these guys so easily while not taking something - are his doctors just one step ahead of the game? I read somewhere he's the most tested athlete in the world (don't know if this is true). I hope this is the case and I hope that he is, and has always been, clean of drugs as for me he's the best there's ever been. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djchapsticks Posted August 28, 2015 Share Posted August 28, 2015 I'd let everyone take as many steroids as they like. Yes, clean sport maintains integrity but it would be a lot more fun watching 8 twitchy roided up freaks running the 100m in 6 seconds than 8 clean athletes struggling to break to 10 barrier. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted August 28, 2015 Share Posted August 28, 2015 He's 6' 5" and 15 stone of muscle. Hopefully that's why he's fast. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LongTimeLurker Posted August 28, 2015 Share Posted August 28, 2015 If he's using something, it will be an advanced enhancing drug that currently isn't being tested for. Jamaica would not be the first country I would think of for where that is likely to be happening. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drs Posted August 28, 2015 Share Posted August 28, 2015 He's as clean as Nadal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shuggie_Murray7 Posted August 28, 2015 Author Share Posted August 28, 2015 Whilst he does posess all the physical attributes to run fast as f**k. And whilst he hasn't risen from an average youngster to become the quickest man ever...he is beating confirmed drug cheats and that always arouses my suspision. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
throbber Posted August 28, 2015 Share Posted August 28, 2015 He's 6' 5" and 15 stone of muscle. Hopefully that's why he's fast.And black Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
strichener Posted August 28, 2015 Share Posted August 28, 2015 I'd let everyone take as many steroids as they like. Yes, clean sport maintains integrity but it would be a lot more fun watching 8 twitchy roided up freaks running the 100m in 6 seconds than 8 clean athletes struggling to break to 10 barrier. The fight at the end of the race would be even more entertaining. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tamdunk Posted August 28, 2015 Share Posted August 28, 2015 It's a big problem in boxing and MMA too, which is worse if you're then battering folk after drugging up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiddy Posted August 28, 2015 Share Posted August 28, 2015 Measure out 10 & 1/2 metres, think " that's how much ground he covers in a second, every second for 9.5 of them", then ask yourself if he's being artificially aided? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DigOutYourSoul Posted August 28, 2015 Share Posted August 28, 2015 Measure out 10 & 1/2 metres, think " that's how much ground he covers in a second, every second for 9.5 of them", then ask yourself if he's being artificially aided? Do the same exercise with 8.5m and think "that's how much distance a kid at a High School championships can cover every metre in his 12.5 second 100m" and you'll realise your argument is silly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted August 28, 2015 Share Posted August 28, 2015 Measure out 10 & 1/2 metres, think " that's how much ground he covers in a second, every second for 9.5 of them", then ask yourself if he's being artificially aided? Did you not claim Lance Armstrong was innocent until he finally confessed? Shame him letting you down has made you so cynical. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diamonds are Forever Posted August 28, 2015 Share Posted August 28, 2015 Top Jamaican sprinters like Simpson, Campbell-Brown, Blake and Powell, amongst others, have all failed drugs tests in recent years. We're expected to believe that an island with 3 million people have produced a generation of world class sprinters in the last 10 years, out of nowhere, without cheating. Laughable really. Bolt was beating Powell and Blake when they were cheating, if you think he's a great athlete now then think how great he actually is if he's running clean and beating guys who are cheating. Even if Bolt has/does fail a test there is no chance of it ever being released as it would finish Athletics as a sport. Look at the blind eye that has been turned to a bunch of lesser known drugs cheats, never mind the greatest athlete in history. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Romeo Posted August 28, 2015 Share Posted August 28, 2015 Top Jamaican sprinters like Simpson, Campbell-Brown, Blake and Powell, amongst others, have all failed drugs tests in recent years. We're expected to believe that an island with 3 million people have produced a generation of world class sprinters in the last 10 years, out of nowhere, without cheating. Laughable really. Bolt was beating Powell and Blake when they were cheating, if you think he's a great athlete now then think how great he actually is if he's running clean and beating guys who are cheating. Even if Bolt has/does fail a test there is no chance of it ever being released as it would finish Athletics as a sport. Look at the blind eye that has been turned to a bunch of lesser known drugs cheats, never mind the greatest athlete in history. I'm surprised the chinese don't have 5 or 6 runner doing about 4.6 secs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elixir Posted August 28, 2015 Share Posted August 28, 2015 Just stick them all on PEDs and be done with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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