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I thought 200m runners got up to a quicker pace????
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I wonder how fast Bolt could run 200m in a straight liine?
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Damned fast.
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Bolt's top speed is equivalent to 100m in 8s then.
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Wow. That really puts it into context.
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Tyson Gay recorded the fastest speed run by a human in his PB Time of 9.69 (10m split)
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Back to the question "What would the IAAF do"
1/2 Lose the test results 2/1 Ignore the test results 10/1 Suspend the athlete 20/1 Ask the UCI for advice |
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Lose the results.....
....would be Lance Armstrong multiplied by.......well lots...... ...though Bolt does come across as a good egg......so hopefully will be theoretical. ...but never underestimate the human ego and its need for world domination in any discipline. |
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Totally agree. Question is largely rhetorical since it ain't ever going to happen.
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Yes...long legs....freakishly fast turnover of legs.....
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Athletics is more about entertainment than worrying about catching the dopers.You get very few big names dragged through the mud. It's more likely to be some obscure Kenyan athletes who noone has ever heard of, yet the evidence seems to suggest that the sport is as rife with drugs as it ever has been.
Take the womens 200 meters today, the winner has a very muscular upper build and also seems acne-ridden (a tell-tale sign of testosterone use) and runs the fourth fastest 200 in history (only famous dopers are ahead of her) and the second placed runner also did a fabulous time, having improved her personal best by a second and a half in the space of a year. Of course if they did get a positive test for Bolt and had a choice about it, they'd likely turn a blind eye. Bolt is a great cash cow for them and a positive result would be a massive blow to a sport already very short on credibility. So it's easier to let the media run this ridiculous sub-plot where Usain is the "savior of the sport" against the bad-guy Gatlin, when the likelihood is they are both drugged up to the eyeballs. My guess is if they kicked all the dopers out the best time would be something like 10.2 for 100 meters and the spectators would be leaving in droves. |
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That's why I'd have an international independent drugs agency which carries out all testing, all penalties, everything. The relevant bodies have too much of a vested interest not to be totally above board or totally transparent about drugs (or other for that matter) problems.
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