Cheer up, your athletes just won the 3 medals in the 400 m hurdles. And where do you think those Jamaicans and Caribbeans train? Anyway, color me as unimpressed with Bolt and most of those sprinters. He should enter in a program like the one that USADA is running with Phelps and Dara Torres, for example. Tyson Gay entered it and since then it's been always downhill. He didn't even qualify for the final. And I'm still suspicious that a designer version of the CERA, for example, can make longitudinal tests pretty useless. Anyway, I'm not suspending my disbelief on Bolt. Ben Johnson, Florence Griffith Joyner, Gatlin and Marion Jones were also freaking impressive. When something looks too good to be true, than it's probably false.
eh, mixed feelings. by this logic anyone who wins is a cheater.
going by this phelps is cetrainly under suspican, so are may/walsh, the usa basketball team, torres, soni, and lukin and johnson.
and thats just from the USA, never mind the other countries. are all the jamican's using?
Nah, because not all winners, let alone sports, are equal. The athletic evolution of some guys makes more sense, it's more understandable. Of others, not so much. And Phelps, for example, is under the kind of anti-doping program I'd like to see other top athletes join (it's called "My Victory" or something, but there are others). Doesn't rule anything out, but it does enforce their credibility. As I've said, since Gay joined it, he was never that good again. Of course that trying to second guess who is or who isn't a cheater is many times a lesson in futility. But there are some good hints.
For starters, just check the evolution of the 100 meters world record:
In 1991 it was 9.86. Sixteen years later, it was 9.79 (set by Maurice Greene, who admitted connections to Heredia). Then CERA (a variant of erythropoietin that is the most fashionable PED at the moment) becomes available. In the following year the record drops to 9.69!! Geez, it took more than 20 years to drop from 9.99 to 9.95.
As a road cycling fan, I try to not worry much about this stuff. But this year I've seen an almost clean Tour of France and... well... it was quite obvious that this one was (almost) clean. Some track&field races just make me remember the past years Tour.