A LITTLE HISTORY:
Usain Bolt ran against an oncoming -0.9 m/s headwind. With no wind he could have perhaps ran the 200m at 19.2 sec. Mr Bolt is pure bionic speed and he hasn't even reached his prime yet. Pretty much everyone else in his class of speed set the record at ages over 25. The Michael Johnson record was considered probably the hardest athletics record to beat, since no one had even come near it and Bolt did it with headwind. In fact Bolt's previous best was somthing like 19.6 seconds. But Bolt was on another level at the China Olympics and in the 200m final he went all out, unlike in the 100m where he halted at the end to celebrate and STILL got the world record. I should also make it a point to tell all of you this FACT...that Usain Bolt ran the curve in the 4x100m relay in an amazing 8.9 seconds, MIND BLOWING.
THE SKEPTICS ARE NOW SAYING:
According to NBC recently...
"When Jamaica'a reigning world champion in the women's 100m, Campbell-Brown, is suddenly not good enough to make her own Olympic team and the three runners who beat her - Shelly-Ann FRAZER (who is running a second faster now than she did in 2007), Simpson and Kerron Stewart - sweep the medals at the Games, whispers begin. Usain Bolt goes from being a good international sprinter to running the 100m in 9.69 seconds, a barrier no human has broken without the aid of wind, to running 19.30 seconds in the 200m and breaking the 12-year-old world record of Michael Johnson"
BOLT RESPONDS TO CRITICS:
"I was tested four times before I even started running. These guys took urine tests and blood tests. After every event final, I've been tested. I've been tested so many times out of competition, I've lost track."
What more can he do?
MY CONCLUSION:
I guess they will continue to have to keep testing Usain Bolt in and out of competition...and at some point maybe, just maybe someone can start asking these doping officials whether they even know how to test athletes anymore, because how many times does a man need to piss in a container before your convinced that he's clean? Not every great athlete in the world is a ROID-HEAD...people need to relax and try to remember names like Muhammad Ali, Michael Jordan, and Micheal Phelps lol. People need to know that Bolt is 6 foot 5 inches and built for speed. His long stride allows him to cover more ground than his competitors, which gives him an advantage. It is similar to the physical advantages that Michael Phelps has. These advantages are natural, and not part of a doping regimen. Usain Bolt doesn't defile track and field, he restores it's innocense and brings a glow and lustre back to the sport. Jamaica's performance in Beijing has made it clear that Jamaica is now the 'sprinting' capital of the world. It is still one of the wonders of the sprinting world that this country, one of the smallest in a world of over 200 countries, can continue to achieve results that are so out of proportion with its size and resources.
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