The Athletics Thread (... but predominantly about Bolt)

[Daniel 7]

Don't forget Bellshill's Tom McKean

Can you remember the Geordie fella Dave Sharpe? He robbed a shop and was chased for miles by the cops who couldn't catch him, haha

[CJ]

When I was doing my a levels my politics tutor did a lot of running and she said back in 94 it was/well known in athletics that Christie was on drugs.

Looks like Lewis was not clean either

But great program

[Chazza]

Really good doc that

Amazing to think that nearly all of them got done one way or the other

In my mind the one and only legend will be Frankie Fredericks

[Daniel 7]

Ahem, Michael Johnson

[Leyton388]

quality documentry that. Really gives you an insight of their attitude at the time and it must have been very hard not to take them knowing your competitors are doing it and the only way to beat them is to take them yourself.

I don't care what he says Carl Lewis was on the juice as well. Drugs or not the few years of Lewis v Johnson were electric.

[dom9]

I was a Cram man

He was my hero. I was massively into middle distance running.

[dom9]

So Bolt, right? How is he so fast?

[Imy]

So Bolt, right? How is he so fast?

Carl Lewis raises doubts over Usain Bolt's record-setting performances

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/othersports/athletics/2826070/Carl-Lewis-questions-Usain-Bolts-record-setting-performances.html

[Leyton388]

Carl Lewis is a cock.

[paulg]

I will be gutted, but not surprised if Bolt & others turn out to be cheats. Lewis is a hypocrite though.

[Leyton388]

Lewis has an appalling attitude "He's faster than i ever was so he must be on drugs" **** off. With the amount of testing these days it is almost impossible to avoid a drugs test and not get caught if you are on them. Someone like Bolt will get tested more than others.

Lewis is a hypocrite after his samples showed drugs after the 84 games and he was sporting the infamous brace.

[Pablo]

Naive to think "it's impossible to avoid getting caught" nowadays IMO. I really hope the Jamaican's don't turn out to be cheats, but if they did you wouldn't be hugely surprised surely? Once beaten, twice shy.

I've long advocated a "Druglympics", where people are free to shoot up on the start line if they like. Let's see how fast the human body can move, let's break that 9 second barrier!

[Rich]

I reckon Blake is going to win gold in the 100m. A time of around 9.60 ish.

Bolt wont get a good start and he'll not be able to claw it back.

However, Bolt will win 200m gold.

My predictions

[Shaggy]

Bolt will win in 9.43

[Shaggy]

There's a half hour documentary about Carl Lewis floating around the Sky Sports channels at the moment...'Sporting Greats', it's called. Good viewing, if only to see how fat Leroy Burrell is these days