Asafa Powell and Sherone Simpson fail drug tests

both 100m runners from Jamaica.

 

Bolt to follow. They might keep that one quiet though.

 

I don't think Bolt will have taken anything. These two should be missing at Moscow now making it easier for our own prospect

 

They're taking drugs and he's beating them. Either the drugs don't work or they're all in it together.

 

Interesting CT, questions Bolts integrity after moaning about Froome's being questioned.

Sure it was all tongue in cheek though.

 

Just playing Devil's advocate.

 

There were lots of stories floating round Birmingham at the weekend that Alberto Salazar, the coach who transformed Mo Farah's career, is about to be hit by USADA. Watch that space....

 

Tyson Gay was mentioned too on radio this morning. Hasn't he been banned before?

 

The reason Bolt broke the world record is because he has a unique anatomy for sprinting. He is able to run quicker because of his height, stride span, fast-twitch muscles and leg speed. Most people of his height are hindered in sprinting because of their drive and transition phase. Bolt is so quick because he deals with this better than anyone else for his height. He hasn't the best start in the world, and he could actually go quicker if he improved his drive phase, but it's good enough that once he hits the middle part of the race he blows everyone else away.

I can't say categorically that Bolt has never taken drugs but it is lazy to say he is the fastest and therefore must have done. Just watching him race and his stature provides enough evidence as to why he is able to run faster than anyone else.

Since the world record he has struggled with injury, his scoliosis, the fact that some of the hunger has gone, and a huge increase in pressure on his time, all of which means it is much harder to recreate that form.

 

No. He's always been very outspoken against performance enhancing drugs and for a number of years has volunteered for extra drugs tests to prove he is clean.

I don't really care about Asafa Powell and Sherone Simpson, but I always thought Tyson Gay was one of the good guys and a really decent bloke, so I find his positive test very upsetting. At least he's being as upfront as possible at this stage, has already pulled out of the world championships and is being completely open with the US anti-doping agency.

 

I don't know about not recreating that form. In the London Olympics last year her ran 9.63 seconds in the 100m final, the second fastest 100m of all time and only 5 one hundredths of a second outside his world record. It was faster than that run in Beijing when he beat his chest and everyone went mental.

In the 200m in London he ran 19.32, which equalled the time of that amazing world record of Michael Johnson in 1996, a time that I thought would never be beat. It was the 4th fastest 200m of all time, Usain only having beaten it twice before.

He's not running those times this year (yet, he never does until the major championships) but it's the year after Olympic year and performances always drop off.

You can only run your fastest ever race once, but Bolt got damn close to it in London. He was as good if not better than 4 years previously in Beijing and was only eclipsed by the times he did in Berlin at the World Championships. Athletes usually just have one major competition in their lifetime when they're untouchable recording unbelievable times. Bolt, so far, has had three.

 

Oh don't get me wrong, I'm not saying he hasn't recreated it, just that he has found it much harder which is completely understandable. I don't think he has ever been in the same shape over a long period of time that he was in 2008 and 2009 when he seemed unbeatable.

I was just trying to make the point that just because he hasn't broke the world record since 2009 doesn't mean he was on drugs in 2009 as some seem to be implying.

 

Thanks Jay. Was Gatlin I was thinking of. I think.

 

Gatlin is a complete lovely person.

 

It was him then.

 

This sort of thing is probably more rife than we think, more a case of people being "unlucky to get caught". Wouldn't surprise me if the likes of Bolt are protected from this kind of thing given that he is a poster boy of athletics and any such allegations against the likes of him would tarnish the reputation of athletics in general not just himself.

 

I can't remember the site, but some religious group in America published news reports where it automatically changed the word Gay to Homosexual. So the athletics section had lots of stories about Tyson Homosexual...

 

talk of it being a sad day for athletics but I think it's the best thing that could have happened, the naming and suspending of the drug cheats.