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Carl Lewis suggests Jamaica's drug testing program is less than ideal..

AH man.....not very generous or subtle of Carl.
I personally was disgusted by the instant speculation of the Chinese swimmer earlier in the games...it was nasty.
 
I think he first said this in 2008 - there has been a lot of speculation about him as well - that 1988 100m race - the Johnson one - there was a documentary or book recently calling it the most drug influenced race in hisory
 
Well all three Jamaican sprinters will be tested now because all medallists are tested but that only shows if they have used HGH, as an example, in the last few weeks.
 
Drug cheat finds it hard to understand how success could ever come through any means other than drugs?

Calvin Smith is the only one in that 88 final who never failed a drug test.
 
I think maybe the point I was making was misunderstood. Lewis said "Jamaica's drug testing program is less than ideal" (from the OP, I have read no other news about this). My point was Jamaica's testing isn't really that relevant as he would have been tested around the world as well.

I am the least informed person on this board with regard to runners and drug testing
 
littlebabyjesus said:
Drug cheat finds it hard to understand how success could ever come through any means other than drugs?

Calvin Smith is the only one in that 88 final who never failed a drug test.
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According to this article, he was the only man in the top five who never failed a drug test. Also Dennis Mitchell came up with the most amusing excuse of the five of why he failed his.
 
Indeed. :D

Looking back, it's amazing how all these excuses were accepted. fwiw, I believe Smith when he says he was clean. I remember right after the race how he was calling Johnson an 'ok runner'.
 
Never did like Carl Lewis - even when he was 'clean' and winning things. Seems to think he's in direct communication with God or summat. Loathsome.
 
Over the years, Jamaica has discovered and disqualified a number of druggies, including - a few years ago - three quarters of their women's sprint relay team. So they are not shy of doing the right thing. Maybe some slip through but I doubt whether anything institutional is going on. There are a number of Americans competing after having tested positive in the past (Gatlin for example) and a number who haven't failed tests (Jeter, for example) but who continue to be surrounded by suspicion. The list of past US athletes who were found to have taken drugs is immense. In 2008, Michael Johnson returned a 4x400m gold medal when three out of five team members were found to be druggies.

Carl Lewis is being American, preaching about things and projecting onto others the sins that, in recent years, his own people have been most guilty of.
 
Lewis is a dick. And a hypocrite.

But, you can't help have suspicions. Not only about the ease with which Bolt wins, but also because of the enormously disproportionate success of Jamaica in sprinting.

And I've heard people criticise Jamaica's relatively lax off-season testing regime before, though I don't know enough about it to say whether there's anything in that.
 
Sirena said:
Over the years, Jamaica has discovered and disqualified a number of druggies, including - a few years ago - three quarters of their women's sprint relay team. So they are not shy of doing the right thing. Maybe some slip through but I doubt whether anything institutional is going on. There are a number of Americans competing after having tested positive in the past (Gatlin for example) and a number who haven't failed tests (Jeter, for example) but who continue to be surrounded by suspicion. The list of past US athletes who were found to have taken drugs is immense. In 2008, Michael Johnson returned a 4x400m gold medal when three out of five team members were found to be druggies.

Carl Lewis is being American, preaching about things and projecting onto others the sins that, in recent years, his own people have been most guilty of.
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What a spot on post this is... have you been using some form of post enhancing chemicals?
 
Also interesting that Calvin Smith, despite being the 100m world record holder at the time, failed to qualify at the US trials for the 1984 Olympics - he only took part in that Olympics as a member of the relay team.Was he the only US 100m sprinter not on the gear in 1984.

Carl Lewis tried to pull my Dad once but that's another story.
 
Casual Observer said:
Also interesting that Calvin Smith, despite being the 100m world record holder at the time, failed to qualify at the US trials for the 1984 Olympics - he only took part in that Olympics as a member of the relay team.Was he the only US 100m sprinter not on the gear in 1984.

Carl Lewis tried to pull my Dad once but that's another story.
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Sounds like a good story.
 
Florence Griffith-Joyner's 100 and 200 metre records are still standing 24 years after she set them,no female sprinter has come remotely close to breaking them since :hmm:
 
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