Is Usain Bolt clean?
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Johnson did 10.12 for the first 100m and 9.2 for the second 100m IIRC. Pretty much what you would expect due to the rolling start; Donovan Bailey has clocked sub-9s with a rolling start, although obviously not after having done 100m beforehand.
One thing I did notice is on this video of Bolt (skip to 07:24), there's a clock in the background. It doesn't come properly into view until about 8.7s and he's already been easing off before then
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/olympics/athletics/7565572.stm
The startling thing is really over the first 50m he's not really that far in front. I suppose being a 200m running first and foremost means he can maintain his speed for longer, from 50-80m it's a joke, he pulls away from them as if they are running in treacle or something.
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I wished Bolt had kept going flat out....
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/olympics/athletics/7565572.stm
Pause the video at 4.49, the time reads 9.3 secs
He started slowing down way before 9.3 secs, he looked to his right at around 8 seconds into the race, so was at about 85 metres into it.... at that moment he would have been doing 10.62 metres per second.... had he kept on going I reckon his time would have been around.... 9.41secs....
Of course my calculations are my own estimations of distances covered and points in time, they also dont take into account his decelerations, mavity, the moon, position of the planets or the lay of dead chickens entrails!
He final time gave him 10.31 metres per second average over the whole 100 metres.
One thing to bear in mind is that he is doing the 200m as well and probably didn't want to expend any unnecessary energy. You'd think it wouldn't make much difference but you do see tactics coming into play from atheletes, that's why they often cruise through the heats.
Caffiene, for example, is allowed (does it still have a max limit?). Linford Christie managed to successfuly argue that his elevated hormone levels were due to Ginseng tea. Celery is supposed to boost natural testosterone. Altitude training is allowed, so is hyperbaric training.
At the end of the day they'll be taking every legal measure to improve things just enough so that they don't test positive for something indirectly.
But really - where do you draw the line between a suppliment and a banned substance? Creatine is allowed, for example, IIRC.
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They was saying in the studio because of his size it helps a lot. Not many sprinters his height can sprint that well, he has huge legs and powerful so his stride is a lot bigger than most.
I think what gives that away the most is at the start of races hes never out in front its kind of level until his stride gets going, thats when he starts to clear the competition.
For those interested people should check out "bigger faster stronger" its all about drug usage in sports quite eye opening. They talk about blood doping and the ways its done.
- training high altitude (american olympic training ground is)
- sleeping in some special chamber
- taking some tablets
- injecting your own blood the night before the race
The stupid thing is the top 2 are considered legal and are allowed the bottom two are cheating, yet it all does the same
I think what gives that away the most is at the start of races hes never out in front its kind of level until his stride gets going, thats when he starts to clear the competition.
For those interested people should check out "bigger faster stronger" its all about drug usage in sports quite eye opening. They talk about blood doping and the ways its done.
- training high altitude (american olympic training ground is)
- sleeping in some special chamber
- taking some tablets
- injecting your own blood the night before the race
The stupid thing is the top 2 are considered legal and are allowed the bottom two are cheating, yet it all does the same
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I didn't mean how does the athlete decide. More why does the governing body decide substance or practice x should be banned, when substance or practice y, that have similar effects, should be allowed.
The thing is, I would love to believe he's clean.
However, the only time I have ever seen anyone obliterate the field like that was Ben Johnson's 9.79 which at the time was a similar crazy run!
I guess time will tell, but I can't help feeling Jamaica have got something up their sleeve, something genetic.
However, the only time I have ever seen anyone obliterate the field like that was Ben Johnson's 9.79 which at the time was a similar crazy run!
I guess time will tell, but I can't help feeling Jamaica have got something up their sleeve, something genetic.
It's usually those you don't initially suspect that end up being the cheats and vice versa.
You have to be a total prat to take drugs and then stand out in a huge way as you're just drawing attention to yourself. Ben Johnson's the perfect example - looked like he'd spent the last year in a body-building boot camp and then took the world record apart in the Olympic final. Might as well have hung a sign around his neck.
You have to be a total prat to take drugs and then stand out in a huge way as you're just drawing attention to yourself. Ben Johnson's the perfect example - looked like he'd spent the last year in a body-building boot camp and then took the world record apart in the Olympic final. Might as well have hung a sign around his neck.
Deltoids looked like someone had inflated them too. Bolt's physique is different enough from the others to suggest he may just have a natural advantage. Hopefully it's simply down to him having a long stride and being the first person that tall to get the technique enough to accelerate well at the start.
If he completely nails the technique and runs a perfect 100m race, I don't expect to see his personal best record broken by anyone else in my lifetime.
Maybe. I was reading an interview with Bolt a few weeks ago saying it was more important to him to be olympic champion or world champion than to set a world record becuase nobody can take those away from you. Someone could break the world record in a week.
Maybe once he's won everything in sight he'll get more interested in setting records that are just untouchable. It seems to me that he's more the type of character to race against the man rather than the clock just now.
Maybe once he's won everything in sight he'll get more interested in setting records that are just untouchable. It seems to me that he's more the type of character to race against the man rather than the clock just now.
