I aint never been a hater but I would not be surprised if some Jamaican Sprinters are dabbling around with more than the ganja.  Usain Bolt broke the previous world record of 9.72 seconds, and Shelly-Ann Fraser ran a personal best of 10.78 seconds to win the 100m women’s gold.  I think Bolt frequents the  trap house for that get-lose juice more than Fraser because there are so many track inconsistencies - meaning his success doesn’t add up from a track analysis, but Fraser still leaves concerns.

1.  Usain Bolt is 6′5″ which is not an ideal body type for sprinting since its so hard to get out of the blocks.  Therefore his body type is not built in a freakishly advantageous way like Michael Phelps who has an ideal swimmers body where he is 6′4″ with a 6′8″ wing spa, the torso of a man 6′8″ and the legs of a man 6′0″ which allow for quick powerful leg kicks.

2.  Usain Bolt is not that good out of the blocks.  This is a major difference maker since sprinters shave a lot of time by being quicker out of the blocks.  That’s what Bolt’s fellow countryman Asafa Powell is known for and why I can understand Powell being a world record holder.  Bolt’s start in the finals for the Olympics was mediocre at best.

3.  Bolt just started running the 100m dash a couple months ago.  This race requires much training with regard to technique from the start, to the drive phase, and the finish.  There is no way you go from just starting to train for a race to banging world record times in such a short period of time.

4.  The part of the race where Bolt separated himself from the others was kind of random being that it was around the 50m-60m part.  Most guys need to have that good drive phase to even get to the velocity that Bolt was running at.  Bolt’s race looked even more weird because his extra burst of speed looked effortless while all the other guys looked like they were going to have a stroke if they tried to move any faster.

5.  Bolt could have finished this race at about 9.64 had he not celebrated and slowed up at the end.  The sketchy part is that’s just way to drastic of an improvement of the world record to achieve without some illegal substance. The world record usually takes an entire decade before it goes down an entire 1/10 of a second.  If Bolt had ran hard and got his 9.64, this would be 1/10 of a second faster than Asafa Powells 9.74 set in 2007.  The last time we saw a jump of such sort was when Ben Johnson beat the world record by 1/10 of a second.  It was later found out that he was juicing.  Then there was another believed world record holder by the name of Justin Gatling who reduced his personal best of 9.85 secs in the 100m dash to 9.77.  He made such improvements by also using party favors of Jason Giambi and Jose Canseco.

6.  Lastly, both Bolt and Fraser chose to train at home in Jamaica unlike many of their other compatriots.  It really makes you think what kind of program were those two really on?

I know some people will say, if they were doing anything illegally, it would have been found out already and they’re tested so much and blah blah blah.  Let me explain the doping process first.  Athletes use substances that are not detectable at first, therefore they take the risk.  They’re not going to be dumb and use something in which they’ll be caught.  All of those caught for doping where caught well after their success (Marion Jones, Ben Johnson, Justin Gatling, etc).  These athletes get caught up usually when the substance using becomes detectable but not to their knowledge.  That is why the committees that regulate sports like track go back and strip so many medal from athletes because they probably know the athlete has been using the substance well before they got caught.

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