Firstly, sorry to bring up a track athlete in a cycling forum... I just wanted to ask whether anyone thinks Bolt is doing anything new or is simply doing what others have been doing for years? Thanks.
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blackcat said:doing it in Jamaica. No testing. Gov't complicit in allowing.
So, he can dope all day everyday, and just make sure the stuff passes thru his system by competition time. Unmatched advantage.
Eyjafjallajokull said:There is a long thread on Bolt somewhere in the clinic archives.
Ferminal said:http://forum.cyclingnews.com/showthread.php?t=2973
Forgot about this one -
"It's not about the spikes"
classic!
FoxxyBrown1111 said:He is the Lance of Track. Improving an already high level performance by 4% in one year is something never happened in the (doping full history of) short sprints. Not even Ben Johnson did it, not Carl Lewis, nobody.
Even more disturbing is this:
WR-100m 9,95 in the Sixties to 9,93 in the 80s, to 9,86 in the 90s, to 9,79 in the early 00s (??) to 9,58... no way. Every decade the WR is broken by no more than 0,07 seconds and all of a sudden it´s broken by almost 0,20?
And remember the Anti-Doping-Agency of Jamaica: no tests, didn´t even exist ´till last year.
But the same explanations as known from Lance: he has long legs = bigger steps, trains harder, faster tracks, lighter shoes, blah blah blah (i remember the 80s, it was said you need to bulk up like Ben Johnson coz you have to have a fast start; in the 90s it was said you need to run like Michael Johnson (short fast steps)). Conclusion: Never trust self-called sport scientists but trust your common sense and you´ll see there´s something real wrong.
Eyjafjallajokull said:There is a long thread on Bolt somewhere in the clinic archives.
B.Rasmussen said:Yep, here it is: http://forum.cyclingnews.com/showthread.php?t=2973
Look, it's back from when you posted under the "BanProCycling" name. No wonder you remembered it so well.
galaxy1 said:i'd like to have faith in Bolt actually, if you don't mind. there isn't any evidence against him.
i know from a friend who has trained with him that he has a rep for being lazy and unprofessional, the complete opposite of any sort of programme.
just a supreme talent, nothing like his rivals in any parameter.
B.Rasmussen said:Yep, here it is: http://forum.cyclingnews.com/showthread.php?t=2973
Look, it's back from when you posted under the "BanProCycling" name. No wonder you remembered it so well.