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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August 23rd, 2009 at 1:02 pm
Hey guys, is it not true that showboating was started and perfected by American athletes, as they were all encourage my their sports media to show-off whenever they are in the spot light. They do it in Nascar, American “wrong name” Football, Basketball, Boxing, Tennis and even that year when their Women won the World Cup “real name” Football with one of their players taking off her Jersey when she scored the winning goal??? Now as for what Mr Usain Bolt does whenever he wins a race, is what for those of us can remembered doing whenever we feel elated after doing something at school or Sports day by imitating flying like a bird or a plane in most cases. Yes my friends, to us in and from Jamaica, it’s called child’s play. Now as for T-son Gay the CHI-CHI-Man that said he have a groin injury yet ran 9.71sec.? Oh come on! There is no way someone can run that fast with an injury and then plans to run again in a few days. It’s all a part of the game that the American Athlete’s play to justify if they lost at some games, but it won’t work with Mr Usain Bolt because he has his own before and after the game cap on. Here is a little known facts about us Jamaican’s and Caribbean people on a whole, we don’t wait on the 3rd Thursday in every November to eat a proper meal but have one all year around which what you Americans would call natural Steroids. Also in the caribbean we restock our refrigerator with fresh produce weekly and not monthly. So wheel & come again T-son Gay, Carl Lewis and his so many fans, who are just haters yet had nothing to say when Merlene Ottey among others was running against Balco, etc, etc, etc. all these years. By the way if Usain Bolt is on Steroid or something unknown to us fans, then all American athletes had the money and technology at their finger tips, which am sure they were using in secert, with Michael Johnson and Carl Lewis to name a few, were and are taking advantage of. There is a Proverbs that says, “when you are pointing one finger at others, check how many are pointing back at you?” Peace and love to all god blessed Fans.
August 23rd, 2009 at 7:15 am
Carl Lewis’s positive test covered up
By Jacquelin Magnay
April 18 2003
Olympic legend Carl Lewis is among more than 100 American athletes involved in a cover-up of drug use, documents reveal.
Lewis and two of his training partners all took the same three types of banned stimulants and were caught at the 1988 US Olympic trials, according to the documents released by a disgruntled former senior US anti-doping official, Dr Wade Exum.
But on appeal to their national Olympic committee, all were cleared of inadvertent doping. Two months later, at the Seoul Olympics, Lewis finished second in the 100 metres sprint. But when Canadian Ben Johnson failed his Olympic drug test, Lewis was awarded the 100m gold.
Lewis also won the Olympic long jump - as part of his career tally of nine Olympic gold medals - and his training partner, Joe De Loach, won the 200m in Seoul.
Lewis’s lawyer, Martin Singer, has responded to the revelations by saying his client had taken only a herbal remedy.
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“Carl did nothing wrong,” Mr Singer told The Orange County Register. “There was never intent.”
The latest documents show Lewis tested positive for the banned stimulants found in cold medications: pseudoephedrine, ephedrine and phenylpropanolamine.
The World Anti-Doping Agency’s chairman, Dick Pound, dismissed the “no intent” defence. Mr Pound has seen copies of the documents and said that in some instances there was almost “automatic forgiveness” by the US officials.
Letters written by a US Olympic Committee executive, Baaron Pittenger, were sent advising some athletes of their positive drug-test results - and at the same time told them they were being cleared.
“It’s got to be pretty embarrassing to the USOC,” said Mr Pound, “to have their secretary-general writing in the letter, where he advises an athlete of a positive A sample, ‘I have to send you this, but we already decided this was inadvertent.’ That whole process turned into a joke.”
Dr Exum, the former USOC
director for drug control from 1991 to 2000, released more than 30,000 pages of documents to Sports Illustrated. They confirm widespread suspicion of the USOC drug-testing system before it was moved to an independent body, the US Anti Doping Agency, after the Sydney Olympics.
The Herald reported last year that a US athlete tested positive to steroids in 1999 but was allowed to compete - and win an Olympic gold medal - in the 2000 Sydney Games. US officials still refuse to divulge the name of the athlete, or those of 13 other athletes who had failed drug tests around the same time, citing privacy laws.
In the Seoul 100m, Britain’s Linford Christie was elevated from third to second after Johnson was disqualified. In later years, Christie was banned for using steroids.
The International Olympic Committee’s medical commission chairman, Arne Ljungqvist, said the Exum documents “fit a pattern” of failure to report on positive drug cases. But the USOC called Dr Exum’s accusations “baseless”.
Dr Exum said there were more than 100 positive tests for US athletes who won 19 Olympic medals between 1988 and 2000, but many were allowed to keep competing.
August 22nd, 2009 at 3:33 pm
One thing we all will have to admit is that Bolt is fun to watch. He’s good entertainment and if you take your bias out of it (steroids or not) he still the fastest man on this earth. Why don’t they just take the testing away and we could all enjoy a real freak show. Have the regular olympics and the Dopolympics. I think more people would watch the freaks. It’s their body and they should be able to put whatever substance in it they choose. They are the ones that have to live with the side-effects and results of their actions. So, sit back and enjoy…no need to judge. The truth seem to alway emerge eventually. In the mean-time…give the guy his moment in the sun because at this point he’s still innocent.
August 22nd, 2009 at 5:48 am
you are wrong anonymous. Bolt is not white. Also Carl Lewis did not run the 100 m at Berlin, he is a retired athlete.
Where did you hear that eating a lot of potatoes make someone runs fast. It is illegal to dope. But potatoes are not dope. If he was eating about 4 kg of potatoes daily,as you said, he would be fat.
If I knew your address I would be glad to send you a 100 kg bag of potatoes.
Have a nice day.
August 21st, 2009 at 5:22 pm
I don’t understand how he could be using steriods without the massive muscle increase and other bodily changes associated with illegal drug use to enhance sprinter performance. Indeed, the reason Carl Lewis was never suspsected was because he never had the massive body size. Now he is accusing Bolt? Maybe I am missing something about what the drugs do to you, but Bolt looks clean and UNBELIEVABLY AMAZING, a once in a lifetime athlete to me.
August 21st, 2009 at 4:58 pm
He may be the fastest man on the planet you are right but is it leagal that is a whole other question? You See Jamaica doesnt have the same kind of testing like we do it is on a schedule they know when they are being tested so of course you can pass thats full of crap. There are alot of things you can get that help inhance that are not tested. So I hope he is legal cause if he is not kiss jamiacas chances of ever competeing in another oylmpics goodbye! Cause no country ever agian will trust them in track and field!
August 21st, 2009 at 4:35 pm
It’s not about Usain Bolt being black or Jamaican. Don’t be such cry-babies.
Saying he runs faster because he’s taller makes no sense. If just being taller is the magic trick to running faster, it would have been discovered a long time ago.
The thing is his legs hit the ground about as many times a second as those of his 6 ft colleagues do. That’s his ‘trick’.
Doing that obviously requires phenomenal muscle strength for his relatively low weight.
So either he really is a freak of nature among freaks of nature, or he cheats.
August 21st, 2009 at 2:18 pm
It’s a shame Carl Lewis had to say that. Why do blacks hate blacks? Carl my brother you should be defending Bolt instead of putting him down. It’s a crying shame.
August 21st, 2009 at 1:58 pm
DH says “Jamaica is still a very corrupt nation.” And America is not? Just look our history. And yes I am American myself. A “white” American at that.
But that’s besides the point. I think anytime anyone does something that noone ever thought would be done, there will always be a level of skepticism. It’s human nature. But why is it so hard to believe there is such a peron out there that is “naturally” faster than anyone else. Could he just be “the fastest man in the world?” Logically, there is a person that exists with that title. Maybe he has finally emerged. But he should not be condemned if it has not been proven that he has done anything wrong.
August 21st, 2009 at 10:58 am
He is using insulin as a natural steroid. Since it is natural it is almost impossible to trace, but is still illegal.
Insulin helps an athlete build power and strength extremely fast, but if you do to much you die.
He is living on the edge.