I remember when the LA Olympics were held in 1984, the world record for the 100m stood at 9.93 seconds. Last night at the fastest 100m ever run in history at the Berlin World championships, 5 sprinters finished in a time of 9.93 seconds or better. The pick of the bunch- as predicted in the last post from 2 days ago- was Usain Bolt in an astounding time of 9.58 seconds. Not long ago bio-mechanists thought such a time was not attainable by humans.
Bolt's astonishing feat could be judged by Tyson Gay- who in coming second in a US record of 9.71 seconds became the second fastest man of all time, but still trailed Bolt by about two meters at the finish. Seven of the eight contestants ran in 10 seconds or better to make it the fastest race in history. But they were all catching Bolt's shadows, who uncharacteristically for a sprinter was dancing and blowing kisses to the camera before the race. A far cry from sprinters like Maurice Green and Carl Lewis who used to strut around and focus on their race. But it wasn't just his attitude that was radically different to the others, his time was too. It will be a long time before anyone catches up to this time... a long long time.
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Tks but this does not answer the main question : Is he clean or not and if not is he as clean as the winner of the Tour de France...
For all dopeheads winning in the past 20 yrs thjere has been sbdy to try to explain it with rationale, always to be looking damn stupid when the truth comes up that he / she (remember Mairon Jones ? ) is just like all the others....
For me Bolt is like a BMW X6 : i just cannot make up my mind if I should praise him for my love of exceptional sportsman / car as he is just different ( in this case the first ever guy that tall to compete at that level ) or if he is just like another "SUV" of athletics, just on a new sort of steroids enhanced deja-vu....
i don't know why this triggered off the memory of a few of Fawad Bhai's friends (i don't know if you were one of them) standing near the entrance of our GOR III home watching as Ben Johnson won the race he was later discovered to be on steroids for. It is awful sad when you think something is real and it turns out to be fake.
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