A class act!Shows our footballers up.He is a world-class athlete who knows how to interact with the fans ...our over-paid footballers haven't got a clue!
Jamaican athletes are worse then the East Germans of the past. At least the East Germans didn't showboat! Sprinting is tainted with performance enhancing drugs and out of competition drug taking. Jamaica has a huge amounts of positive drug cheats and should be banned from competition, they are turning the 100 and 200m into a farce. Cycling cleaned up its act so why can't athletics? The fact Jamaica carried out 1 out of competition drugs test in the 6 months before the Olympics outlines the very fact. In June last year 5 of them tested positive including two Olympic gold medalists! There are athletes from cleaner nations who deserve more credit then Bolt.... Jo Pavey or the Brownlee brothers for me.
I thought Usain Bolt was great the other night, nowt wrong with a little bit of showboating. He certainly entertained the crowd and the people watching on TV at home. Those people at the stadium will remember his interacting with them for years to come. Quite frankly, if you didn't enjoy that you must be a spoilsport. I enjoyed watching Jo Pavey as well and was yelling at the screen when she got her bronze and I'm sure she will get all the credit she deserves as will the Brownle brothers. However, the sprinters are the top draw and Usain Bolt is the greatest sprinter ever, bar none. And I'm fairly sure he has never failed a dope test in his life. He doesn't need to, he's a great athlete. As for the Jamaicans being worse than the East Germans, I don't think so. The East Germans even had a program to feed drugs to their athletes, State Plan 14.25.
The East Germans were forced to do it...the Jamaicans do it of their own accord and make money doing it. Who is worse?
Some of the East German athletes knew what was happening, some didn't but to suggest as you did in a previous post that the Jamaicans are worse then the East Germans is massively wide of the mark. Just to give an idea of the extent of East German doping, they bagged themselves a massive 47 gold medals at the 1980 Olympics. They had a proper programme of state doping, huge compared to whatever happens in Jamaica.
Not at all. If you were an athlete in East Germany in the communist past then you were expected to take part in the national doping system probably for fear of you life. They did it for a peaceful life, a small concrete apartment and a trabby. The Jamaicans have more of a choice and are making bucket loads of cash through appearance payments and sponsorship. To make hero's off a nation who's athletes are riddled with performance enhancing drugs is bizarre. As i said before the Jamaicans systematically omitted to out of competition drug testing before the Olympics and were subsequently found out afterwards. Jamaican athletes haven't been properly tested for decades and because of sponsorship some huge names will make a lucrative career never having been fully tested. The people to admire are those who were beaten by the drug cheats (Sharon Davies for example) or one's who have been wronged due to an over zealous drugs testing program testing program (Alain Baxter).
Baxter should have known the risk of using that nasal decongestant and fell foul of the doping law. Mind, that was his reason for failing it. AS for Usain Bolt, he has never failed a drugs test, just because the likes of Powell have do not make him guilty. He's a hero because he is naturally gifted runner and I'm sure he is tested regularly if not by the Jamaicans.
Baxter was caught because he used a US version of a decongestant which is available in the UK (and lawful) and the US version contained a banned substance. He should have checked it before hand but assumed that it was the same as the UK version. Sharon Davies was robbed of a gold (a big deal in the 80's) by an East German who has since admitted cheating but Davies has never been given the gold and subsequently missed out sponsorship etc. As for Bolt never failing a drugs test! They didn't test for 6 months before the Olympics. It's hard to fail when you aren't being tested.
Did it? How are you privy to information that cycling is clean yet athletics is not? You appear to just adopt a bit of a controversial opinion just for arguments sake mate. Don't get me wrong, I like ya, you come out with some good stuff on here that gets my brain thinking, but it just seems you like to dismiss things to make your opinion stand out a bit. Bolt's physique tells a person everything you need to know about his career statistics, he's tall and he's packed with lean muscle. The ideal frame for a sprinter is his body and the climate in which they train is perfect for sprinters. For Bolt to take a substance such as anabolic steroids, it would stack his physique in a totally different shape, he may end up with much bigger delts, traps, lats and certainly as a sprinter he'd have quads, calves and glutes twice the size, he'd look like a bloody bison. Oxilofrine is present in many cheaper fat burners, the doping agency is far too strict when they ban sprinters for this type of drug, it would not register as a 'performance enhancer' in a sprint, the focus wouldn't drop whatsoever so there'd be no requirement for a burner such as caffeine, guarana, green tea extract or Oxilofrine... further more, I'd seriously doubt caffeine is banned, and caffeine would provide more effective focus than Oxilofrine ever could. Androgenic agents such as anabolic steroids or Beta-2 agonists directly improve either testosterone levels thus muscle performance, or heart rate performance so they're always going to be controversial but stimulants like Oxilofine are a joke, the IAAF treat it as if it's speed or cocaine when in reality you'd get a bigger kick out of having a latte before your sprint.
Bolt is just what you need in sport. He is a showman, something which professional status often sobers out of sports people.
There are some excellent articles online regarding cycling. Even Bradley Wiggins who is 100% anti drugs and doping agrees. http://www.usatoday.com/story/sport...adley-wiggins-cycling-doping-culture/8943325/ Performance enhancing drugs don't only alter the physique of the athlete. Take beta-blockers for example. I'm not being controversial when i say that the Jamaican athletics association didn't test athletes out of competition for the 6 months before the Olympics, why? Then after the Olympics 5 Jamaicans are tested positive. I'm not saying that Bolt is a junkie, all i am saying is that athletics, especially the sprints are riddled with a doping culture.
That article holds as much gravity as any other I could pick up to be honest, Wiggins doesn't know everybody on the circuit. The sport will still be rife with banned substances as with any other sport. Beta blockers if anything would hinder an athlete's performance, they control the heart rhythm. I take them and I struggle like hell to do High Intensity Interval Training, they're proven to hinder fat-loss. Good for beating a polygraph though, not that I would ever need to! I am well aware of what 'performance enhancing' means, most are stimulants but others are banned because they increase Testosterone levels in the consumer. Naturally those types will increase muscle mass, add unnecessary weight to sprinters like Bolt and he'd go backwards (not literally of course that'd be funny though, you'd spot them a mile off). The stimulants range from class-A narcotics to substances akin to Red Bull though, they've been far too strict with the 'stimulant' category, stimulants offer focus which is vital to any sportsman/woman, so in my opinion, they need to loosen up these laws. Athletes willingly taking banned substances deserve to be punished, but to treat somebody who takes anabolic steroids and somebody who takes a fat burner the same is absolutely ludicrous.
I'm not really into this athletics malarkey but do people who finish in a medal position get tested anyway? If not why not? People would not take drugs if they knew a thorough testing was applied if that person was successful! Forgive me if I'm naïve regarding the subject!
My argument re beta blockers was to prove a point that not all performance enhancing drugs are taken to make the user gain muscle. Another example could be blood doping especially autologous blood transfusions and re/ sprinters especially the use of diuretics. Wiggins may not know everybody but he has in the past been very outspoken regarding drug use. As a track and road Olympic medalist and as a winner of the Tour de France I think he'd be pretty clued up on how drugs are affecting his sport.
It's not as much the testing during competition which is the problem. More the testing outside of competition which allows athletes to train whilst under the influence of banned substances which then pass out of the body before competition. Problem is that the Jamaicans unlike more honorable countries haven't always tested outside of competition.
