Bolt is out of this world

And not posted in the proper forum.

We'll just have to wait and see....

Would you care to rethink your statement?

http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/beijing_olympics/story/0,27313,24094828-5016798,00.html

Marion didn't look like a thoroughbred next to ponies.  Steroids don't make a person 6 1/2 feet tall.  Just looking at Bolt, you can see that, like Phelps, he won the genetic lottery as far as being built to run.

I've been to Jamaica 4 times, and it's good to see someone from there achieve something so amazing.  Most of the Jamaican's I've met are very proud of their country, and just all around cool people.

They should check his cell phone and see if Ben Johnson is on his speed dial.

UNDERSTATEMENT OF THE YEAR!!! 

Have no doubt about it. The kid might not get caught, but he is most definetely using some form of steroids along with almost every other person on that track. Man was not meant to run the 100m in less than 10 seconds. Any person that does is no doubt using.

While I agree that if all the track athletes were clean Bolt would still be the best out of all of them, let's not kid ourselves he is doping for sure. I doubt you will see him be competitive at the next olympics probably for that reason.

Hmmm. I love these sorts of blanket statements backed up with scientific proof. Why did you pick 10 seconds as the doping threshold? I mean, if 9.9 is too fast, why not 10? I mean, I'm sure all these people were doping, back in 1960.

And hey, Jesse Owens ran a 10.2 back in 1936. I mean, I can accept that 10.3 was done naturally. But 10.2? No way, man. That's just nuts. Jesse Owens had to be doping too. Here is the progression of the 100 WR, complete with all the dopers. There are actual dopers in there but I was too lazy to edit the HTML.

10.0	Armin Hary	West Germany	Zürich, Switzerland	June 21, 1960
	Harry Jerome	Canada	Saskatoon, Canada	July 15, 1960
	Horacio Esteves	Venezuela	Caracas, Venezuela	August 15, 1964
	Bob Hayes	United States	Tokyo, Japan	October 15, 1964
	Jim Hines	United States	Modesto, California, USA	May 27, 1967
	Enrique Figuerola	Cuba	Budapest, Hungary	June 17, 1967
	Paul Nash	South Africa	Krugersdorp, South Africa	April 2, 1968
	Oliver Ford	United States	Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA	May 31, 1968
	Charles Greene	United States	Sacramento, California, USA	June 20, 1968
	Roger Bambuck	France
9.9	Jim Hines	United States
	Ronnie Ray Smith	United States
	Charles Greene	United States
	Steve Williams	United States	Los Angeles, California, USA	June 21, 1972
	Eddie Hart	United States	Eugene, Oregon, USA	July 1, 1972
	Reynaud Robinson	United States
	Silvio Leonard	Cuba	Ostrava, Czechoslovakia	June 5, 1975
	Steve Williams	United States	Siena, Italy	July 16, 1975
			Berlin, Germany	August 22, 1975
			Gainesville, Florida, USA	March 27, 1976
	Harvey Glance	United States	Columbia, South Carolina, USA	April 3, 1976
			Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA	May 1, 1976
	Don Quarrie	Jamaica	Modesto, California, USA	May 22, 1976

9.95	Jim Hines	United States	Mexico City, Mexico	October 14, 1968
9.93	Calvin Smith	United States	Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA	July 3, 1983
	Carl Lewis	United States	Rome, Italy	August 30, 1987
			Zürich, Switzerland	August 17, 1988
9.83 [3]	Ben Johnson	Canada	Rome, Italy	August 30, 1987
9.79 [3]	Ben Johnson	Canada	Seoul, South Korea	September 24, 1988
9.92	Carl Lewis	United States	Seoul, South Korea	September 24, 1988
9.90	Leroy Burrell	United States	New York, New York, USA	June 14, 1991
9.86	Carl Lewis	United States	Tokyo, Japan	August 25, 1991
9.85	Leroy Burrell	United States	Lausanne, Switzerland	July 6, 1994
9.84	Donovan Bailey	Canada	Atlanta, Georgia, USA	July 27, 1996
9.79	Maurice Greene	United States	Athens, Greece	June 16, 1999
9.78[4]	Tim Montgomery	United States	Charléty, Paris, France	September 14, 2002
9.77	Asafa Powell	Jamaica	Athens, Greece	June 14, 2005
	Justin Gatlin	United States	Doha, Qatar	May 12, 2006
	Asafa Powell[5]	Jamaica	Gateshead, England	June 11, 2006
	Asafa Powell	Jamaica	Zurich, Switzerland	August 18, 2006
9.74	Asafa Powell	Jamaica	Rieti, Italy	September 9, 2007
9.72	Usain Bolt[6]	Jamaica	New York, USA	May 31, 2008
9.69	Usain Bolt	Jamaica	Beijing, China	August 16, 2008

Dude...can I see your copy of God's playbook when you're done with it?

I'm skeptical on the assertions that Bolt is using performance enhancing drugs.

Look at his progress since he was 14. He's made a steady, constant progression. It's wholly possible he's clean.

Plus, it's not like he's a cyclist. 

Interesting how he played up to the cameras like an egotistical, narcissistic, a-hole right after the race.  The dancing, the shoes, the salutes, the, "I'm number one.  I'm the best.".  But then in his post-race interview he was pretty humble, grateful and showed good sportsmanship.  I wonder if the first part was aimed solely at his Jamaican countrymen in which he hammed it up on purpose.  But in the interview with the American reporter he was more himself?

Unlike Michael Phelps whom had competition in some of his races, Bolt looked like he was jogging the last 50 meters in the qualifiers and in the finals, no one was even in the same picture.  Everyone else was just honestly racing for the silver.  What's truly scary is that he STILL didn't look too winded or tired after crossing the line.  He looked like he had the legs to go 400 at nearly the same pace and I don't know why he couldn't train for the 400 as well.  Could you imagine in '12 someone winning gold in the 100, 200 AND 400?!

... Michael Johnson's reaction was CLASSIC!  He just laughed and gave this, "DAMN!  No way I could've ever run THAT fast" look on his face!

How does someone that tall make their legs move that fast?!

Would people stop making statements like this?  It is NOT only the Chinese in this world who dope. 

 If he started taking performance enhancing drugs at 14, wouldn't his progress be steady from that point?