Failed Drug Test - 100m

[Mick Mac]

Radio 5 have passed on a bulletin from a German radio station that one of the mens 100m finalists from yesterday has failed a drug test. No names or confirmation yet.

[daizie]

I love watching athletics . Not just for the super sized lunch box's either .

[Mick Mac]

They are not real Daizie.

[Annasfield]

I'm very cynical about that race.

[Mick Mac]

I know - they all ran far too fast.

[Annasfield]

I just don't get why someone would want to win something like that knowing they cheated.

[FatherJack]

I'm stunned!!!!

NOT!

[jumpinjackflash]

probably our very own Dwayne..who still managed to come nowhere.

Usain Bolt is amazing..and such an apt name for a sprinter!

[bigbadwolf]

When working for a large construction or demolition contractor I'm nearly always subjected to a few random drug tests. I'm being deadly serious when I say that they're notoriously easy to fool. We're nearly always warned about a random test about a week in advance and all you have to do to get around them is flush your body full of fresh orange juice or if you really want to nail it then take an entire tube of Boroca vitimin tablets.

I do however appreciate that an industry drug testing kit available on the commercial market would be easier to cheat than something used by the Olympic doping commision or the military.

Just thought you'd like to know.

[Mick Mac]

That is interesting BBW.

Its also interesting that this was announced by the BBC when John Inverdale was in the middle of an interview with Bolt's promotion agent, who immediatley said it would not be Bolt, Bolt is 100% clean etc.

Since then, not a dickie bird.

[matthew123]

Every World Championships, Olympics has a new state of the art finely tuned running track to aid new World Records..

What the Athletics authorities should also look at is a standard track through the ages as just because someone get's a new record (whatever distance) does not necessarily make them the better athlete than the previous record holder.

[????]

...and so we should have laced up leather footballs, old school boots and 1970s pitches for football and wooden shaft clubs for golf then Matt?

[Jeremy]

Even if matthew's theory is true, I don't see the problem. The athletes at a given meeting are still competing on even terms, and the prospect of breaking records and pushing the sport forward adds excitement. Do you think we'd have this much interest in Athletics right now if Bolt and Gay were running 9.8-9.9s?

[matthew123]

It's a sad reflection on any sport when more merit appears to be gained from breaking records than the actual achievement of winning the Cup or a Gold medal. In a few years time when the record has been smashed a few more times what are people going to applaud from yesterday, an old record or an old gold medal?

If World Records didn't seem to be the be all and end all of anything less than 400m then improvement in running track would be no big deal - which is the reverse in Football as no one puts more glory on scoring a 40 yard free kick over actually winning a match.

[????]

so grass tracks and plimsols it is then.....wot a load of bull

[SteveT]

The majority of the participants in the 100 metres look as if they have been artificially 'pumped up'.

I'm sure that's not the case as only a cynic would think that.