Is Bolt for real ? For a short period of my life I thought Armstrong was real.....very wrong on that one. I wanted to believe he had done something super human. But Mr Bolt you seem to be able to do the impossible against the drug cheats. Should I just believe you whilst most of your competitors have all been done plus most of your countries high achievers. Still confused. Is it possible that Cadel is the only one who doesn't cheat - or was I wrong on that as well?
Cadel is acknowledged throughout the peloton as clean. He has a extremely high level of integrity and stands up for what he believes. At the 2008 Olympics he painted his bike and wore a shirt under hid jersey that represented the Tibetan flag. There was a real risk the Chinese would throw him out of the event. Cadel I believe was clean throughout his career.
Plus cycling leads the way now on testing with their biological passport system.
The Jamaicans do have a bad history in drug taking, including in Bolts training squad. I hope he is clean. I think now that Sebastian Coe has been made president of the IAAF all the positives that are being kept secret will be released and something will be done about it.
Of course our national sports AFL and NRL are rife with drug cheats, but no one knows because of the woeful testing regime and the fact they keep positives quiet.
What would people rather I wonder, sports that chase all their cheats, or sports that hide all their cheats, (so they done get bad PR and lose sponsors). I want clean!!
^^^^Got to agree on Cadel...plus never in his years of racing did I see him achieve what he did through relative ease - it was always through sheer grit and determination (unlike - Lance who had this "mysterious" super human strength that he could call on when ever he needed).
I think they should have a drug induced Olympics and other sport codes. So those people who cannot operate with out drug enhancements can take as much as they like and go for it. That will be entertaining.
So would the insurance bill 
Good read
Usain Bolt delivers his greatest miracle in beating Justin Gatlin
www.bbc.com/sport/athletics/34033556
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So those people who cannot operate with out drug enhancements can take as much as they like and go for it.
The truth is that most of these people on performance enhancing drugs are already elite atheletes. A few drugs doesn't automatically mean some peanut can squat 300kgs or run 100m in under 10seconds. You still have to work and train hard.
It'd be great to allow a level of competition for big events where anything goes to see just what we are capable of.
Select to expand quoteMDSXR6T said..vpar said...
So those people who cannot operate with out drug enhancements can take as much as they like and go for it.
The truth is that most of these people on performance enhancing drugs are already elite atheletes. A few drugs doesn't automatically mean some peanut can squat 300kgs or run 100m in under 10seconds. You still have to work and train hard.
It'd be great to allow a level of competition for big events where anything goes to see just what we are capable of.
Don't you mean see what the drugs are capable of?
I'd be twice the size of my competitors to if i took growth hormones and other drugs. (not saying he does)
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Don't you mean see what the drugs are capable of?
Maybe, but technology is used to vastly improve the equipment we use (ie bikes getting lighter and stronger and cricket bats that hit further etc) so why not us?
You can't just give someone PED's and turn them into superman, they still need to work super hard so why not remove the stigma and allow an open competition class for some big events? It'd still be just as exciting to watch
There’s a well-known survey in sports, known as the Goldman Dilemma. For it, a researcher, Bob Goldman, began asking elite athletes in the 1980s whether they would take a drug that guaranteed them a gold medal but would also kill them within five years. More than half of the athletes said yes. When he repeated the survey biannually for the next decade, the results were always the same. About half of the athletes were quite ready to take the bargain.
Cadels a machine
Trained with him in Jindy back in the day
That guy is the real deal
