Usain Bolt
September 12th, 2008 filed in Olympics, Track and Field
Usain Bolt is a Jamaican sprinter who holds world and Olympic records in both the 100 meters and 200 meters, with times of 9.69 seconds and 19.30 seconds, respectively. He is the first man in history to break both world records at one Olympics, and the first man to win both the 100 and 200 meters events at the same Olympics since Carl Lewis in 1984. His name and achievements in sprinting have earned him the media nickname “Lightning Bolt”.
Such dominate performance is cause for some to speculate about possible cheating by Usain Bolt. Bolt has denied taking performance-enhancing drugs and has not failed a drug test. Yet, his coach acknowledges, it will be impossible for Bolt to avoid skepticism given the sport’s clouded history. A number of Olympic champions, world champions and record holders have been stripped of their sprint medals, records and reputations, including Ben Johnson, Marion Jones, Justin Gatlin, Tim Montgomery and Kelli White.
Usain Bolt CHEATed in the Olympics
Chester Cheater
Usain Bolt competes for Jamaica, a country without a random drug testing policy. Drug tests are scheduled in advance and separated by months. This explains Usain Bolt’s superman like performances. Recently interviewed by Sports Illustrated, Carl Lewis had this to say about Bolt, “When people ask me about Bolt I say he could be the greatest athlete of all-time. But for someone to run 10.03 one year and 9.69 the next, if you don’t question that in a sport that has the reputation it has right now, you’re a fool. Period.” It sounds like one of the greatest athletes of all time is skeptical of Bolt’s performance. Lewis questions the Jamaican sprinting program in general, including the women, “Veronica Campbell-Brown lives in the United States and has been transparent and consistent. She won the worlds last year in the 100 meters and this year can’t even make the (Jamaican) team. Are you going to tell me that shouldn’t be questioned?” Lewis goes on to say, “People forget that I was the first one to speak out about Ben [Johnson], and I got crucified. A year later, I was a prophet. The athletes have to say, ‘No, this isn’t right.’ They know who’s on it. They need to step up.” Carl Lewis knows track and sprinting better than anyone, if he doesn’t trust it, neither should you.
Usain Bolt BEAT his competition in the Olympics
Billy Beater
Usain Bolt is a modern marvel of sports. He has set world records, and has raised the bar in the sport of sprinting. He has done so legally and cleanly. He has repeatedly been tested, including during the Olympics and he has come up clean every time. Bolt is 6′5″ and built for speed. His long stride allows him to cover more ground than his competitors, which gives him an advantage. It is similar to the physical advantages that Michael Phelps has. These advantages are natural, and not part of a doping regimen. The Jamaican Observer has an entire list of reasons that Usain Bolt and other Jamaican sprinters run fast, and none of them include cheating. Usain Bolt beat his competitors in the Olympics and is an International hero.
So what do you think, did Usain Bolt CHEAT, or did he BEAT his competitors?
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October 19th, 2008 at 7:16 pm
Do not listen to the uninformed ramblings of cwl (31). Usain Bolt IS 22 yrs old. He won the World Junior Champs 200m in 2002, which by the way took place in Jamaica, when he was 15 years old (the youngest to do so). He was racing against 18 and 19 yo then just like he is racing agains older competitors now. How do I know? I was there and I saw it for myself. He didn’t have a reason to lie then and he doesn’t now. The guy is gifted PERIOD.
Carl Lewis - I have respect for his acheivements in his time but I have lost respect for him as a person. He made no attempt to get his facts straight before shooting off his flipping mouth about anti-drug testing in Jamaica. His comments/accusations border on SLANDER. Read the above article from the Jamaica Gleaner written prior to the Beijing Olympics and prior to Usain’s world record in NYC Reebock GrandPrix. Furthermore, Lewis is trying to say that Veronica Campbell-Brown did not make the 100m in the JA trials because she trains in the US and the other girls who train in JA were doping. They won by the narrowest margins. So what? When Merlene Ottey last ran for Jamaica in Athens you think she ran because she qualified. No, she, a champion in her event, was beaten fair and square by younger and fitter runners, who unlike herself trained in JA. The margin of defeat was convincing but she was allowed to compete in a faster runner’s place as a gester of respect … seeing that it would’ve been her last olympics. If Veronica Campbell-Brown did compete who knows maybe the Jamaican sweep of the Women’s 100m would not have happened.
My point is that when you have a country that churns out champions after champion it’s not a surprise that when you have new champions emerging. Look at Asafa and Usain.
Go to http://www.iaaf.org and search “usain bolt 2002″ and look at pics of him from the 2002 World Junior Champs. Same posturing reminiscent of the Beijing Olympic after crossing the line. Eerie isn’t it!
October 19th, 2008 at 6:02 pm
Jamaica athletes tested often - F e n n e l l
published: Thursday | April 24, 2008
Leighton Levy, Jamaica Gleaner Writer
THE PRESIDENT of the Jamaica Olympic Association (JOA), Mike Fennell, wants the world to know that Jamaican track and field athletes, especially its top athletes, are tested for drugs often, very often.
The JOA president was reacting to comments being made in recent times by critics of Jamaica’s athletes and the authorities governing the sport, who say tests are not conducted as often as they should be because the country does not have its own independent drug authority.
“It has been said by some misguided people that Jamaican athletes are not being tested because we don’t have a national (drug-testing) programme,” Fennell said. “What the world needs to know is that for some years now, not just recently, all our top athletes have been under an out-of-competition testing programme as organised by the International Amateur Athletics Federation (IAAF) and we have several athletes that are tested continuously every year,” he said.
Banned
Those ‘misguided’ people to whom Fennell refers would include Victor Conte, who was jailed for providing some of the biggest names in track and field from the United States with performance enhancing drugs (PEDs). Among the athletes who were subsequently banned from the sport after they were supplied PEDs by Conte were former world-record holder Tim Montgomery and his former girlfriend Marion Jones, who won five medals, including three gold, at the Sydney Games in 2000. Jones is currently serving a six-month prison term for lying to federal prosecutors about her drug use.
Conte, in an interview aired on the CNN Newsroom on December 13, 2007, suggested that the reason some athletes were not being caught was that the countries they represented did not have independent drug-testing programmes and as such, were not subjected to out-of-competition testing.
“In 2004, at the Olympic Games, there were 208 countries that participated,” Conte said. “Only 24 of those countries had their own independent anti-doping federations in place. That meant that the other 180-some odd countries, while they were training on home soil … and I am talking about countries like the Ukraine, and The Bahamas and Jamaica … and Trinidad, they have no testing federation.”
But, according to the JOA president, people like Conte and former Olympic champion Carl Lewis, who has, without calling names, suggested publicly that Jamaica’s Asafa Powell was using PEDs, are misinformed.
“I want it to be made known far and wide that Jamaican athletes are under constant observation and are being tested,” he said.
He said that last year, Jamaican athletes were tested and tested often.
Numerous tests
“Our athletes were tested many times, in particular those of our athletes that are at the very top,” Fennell revealed. “Our world-record holder (Powell) was tested numerous times in 2007 and this is being done through the international programme of the IAAF, together with the World Anti-Doping Association (WADA).”
The test samples, he said, are taken under special conditions and sent to the testing lab in Montreal.
And it does not stop there. Testing could become more rigorous, once teams are selected and the entries submitted for the Summer Games in Beijing.
“Furthermore,” Fennell said, “under the rules of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) for the Games (in China) and agreed to by their medical commission and in accordance with the WADA’s terms and conditions, all the athletes, once the final entries are in, are exposed to being selected for testing. Entries go in in July and once that is done, we have to be able to tell the whereabouts of any of these athletes. If selected (for testing) and they are not able to be found, the athletes will find themselves in trouble,” the JOA chief concluded.<
October 18th, 2008 at 12:08 pm
English is the language of Jamaica and we have our local dialect:patois. In the same way that english is the language of the U.S.A and they have their local dialect: american.
As for doping, it is obvious to everyone that Americans did
badly in sprints at the Olympics because they were unable to take their “VITAMINS” with the exception of Phelps of course. Did the prophet Carl Lewis call that out? What of Fo-Jo didn’t he see that to make a call on it considering he appointed himself “whistle-blower”.
October 16th, 2008 at 8:27 pm
They should hold a competition between usain and carl with drugs allowed and see who beats who
September 25th, 2008 at 9:35 am
You guys are all fools who say Jamaica does not have any drug testing policy.
1. Rep’s from the world body perform periodic tests on our athletes.
2. There is only one major athletic event in Jamaica (National Trials) all the others are on Grand Prix circuits and US college meets where drug testing is always done. Our professional athletes are always tested.
3. Carl Lewis has tested positive 1, 2, 3 times in the eighties. Who talks about that. BALCO started in the early eighties and none of those (mostly USA)guys got caught. You are all hypocrites who questions a kid who has run under 20s since he was 15 years old. CArl Lewis , Marion Jones, Justin Gatlin… Most of your outstanding athletes cheat (Proven). The ones who did not get to cheat this year did not perform well. (Fact)
September 24th, 2008 at 2:25 am
Is is true the IAAF implemented random drug testing in Jamaica…so that helps.
Lewis wasn’t saying Bolt uses drugs, he simply questioned the testing protocol.
And yes, Lewis tends to pop off.
BTW, Carl Lewis is 6-2 or 6-3. Bolt is 6-4. Are these the two tallest sprinters in history?
September 23rd, 2008 at 11:38 pm
Carl is not even worth the time. He is just pist that American’s can’t cheat no more, and now it’s the Jamaican’s time to shine. Bolt took his record, and he is bitching about it.
Yes Jamaican’s are “more important” than the USA, We have the world “fastest” man. Its only a few sprints, but it’s the most imporant sprints, of all sprints. He need to know that he wasn’t going to be on top for ever.
September 23rd, 2008 at 3:11 pm
First of all, Jamaica is not “more important” than the United States. Your country won a few sprints, that doesn’t make it important.
Secondly, Carl Lewis “zeros in on Usain Bolt” because he was specifically asked questions by an interviewer about Bolt. “SI.com: It’s been few weeks since the Games; what do you think of Usain Bolt?” If he had been asked, “What do you think about Polish Sausage”, then Poland would be upset about being singled out.
September 23rd, 2008 at 3:04 pm
America cant tolerate another nation more important than they are and just like everything else believe they should not be beaten at anything, Carl Lewis is sour grapes, Carl Lewis , zeros in on Usain Bolt, and ignores the records set by other athletes are they not on steroids too? Usain has drawn a line through Carls Name, and stands supreme as he will until if and when he defeats himself as no one else can and will do so, Go Jamaica..love u all including Carl…do grow up and give appreciation and praise where its due just like you had it when you were on top of the world Bolt will do sub 9.50 before long
September 21st, 2008 at 1:42 am
first off, Usain is not 22 years old. he didn’t win the world juniors at age 15. he lied about his age because he felt he wouldn’t be picked up on the dole . this is fact and has been published. no flames. he never competed as an under 20 illegally so its all a wash.
second, the sprint game is like stock car racing. if you aren’t cheating then you aren’t trying. if sports illustrated goes after him, they will get him. let sleeping dog lye.