Bolt says he is a 'clean' athlete

Bolt's World Record Time: 9.58 seconds


Ben Johnson's Steroid Fueled Record Time: 9.79



Bolt says he is a 'clean' athlete

http://www.bbc.com/sport/athletics/23449733



So Bolt is able to easily beat other top runners who are using steroids - and he exploded Ben Johnson's world record - all while using no performance enhancing drugs.


Hmmm... remember that other guy... what's his name.... he won the Tour de France year after year... while every single other man who stood on the winner's podium at some point in their careers tested positive for drug use...


Yes of course... Lance Armstrong...



Thoughts?

Its very very likely that a person at the top level in a sport involving strength or endurance, or a combination of both, uses drugs. Its simply a fact of mathmatics/chemistry/physics. Training, and chemicals, be they legal like those in food and water, or "illegal" like many forms of steriods, hormones, peptides, stimulants, blood boosters etc all play a part in the athlete's ultimalte performance.


Now is it possible that there are a few, possibly like Bolt, who are so superior geneticaly that they did not need to use banned drugs to get to their level of performance. Yes, that is possible, but very unlikely. I would like to know how often Bolt is tested off-season, when he is training off in a remote location in Jamacia. Many of these athletes in remote locations, can train off season, pretty much in secrecy, and then, provided they have taken something with a short half-life, can be ready for testing and appear "clean".

Hmmmm.... how did Usain Bolt smash Ben Johnson's drug fueled 9.79....



Jamaica doping scandals tip of iceberg, says senior drug tester


Former Jamaican Anti-Doping Commission executive director Renee Anne Shirley sparked the crisis when she said the agency conducted just one out-of-competition test in the six months leading up to the 2012 Olympic Games in London.


Her criticisms, made in an article in Sports Illustrated, followed a series of adverse findings involving Jamaican track and field athletes.


Asafa Powell, the former 100m world record holder, was the biggest name to test positive, but four others including Powell's training partner - the Olympic relay gold medallist Sherone Simpson - also failed tests at the country's national trials in June.


Both Powell and Simpson claim that they took supplements that might have been contaminated with the banned stimulant Oxilofrine.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/athletics/24900565