hodgy0_2

What a fantastic race

Brilliant

Blue by You

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The way it should be
How anyone (Gatlin) can serve two penalties for doping and still be allowed to compete is beyond me, surely one warning is enough.

Tony Harrington

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Amazing race and he worked hard for that win for sure. Top man!

Turbohot

He certainly is like a thunder bolt. ⚡️

silver-sub

Definitely had to work for that, he didn't have a great start either, kind of stumbled.
But that Justin Gatlin was very fast.

hodgy0_2

Yeah , totally agree

And the mark of a true true champion is someone who can pull out a performance when it really matters, when the pundits had written him off

Brilliant stuff - and great result for Jessica and Mo too

jazzyjembreaze

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i only nipped out for 10 seconds & missed the BL@@DY race

David Lock

Whatever he's on I want some


Well done UB. Just fantastic.


dl

Dirk Diggler 75

Fast ain't he .....

skoobidude

Amazing. Glad Bolt won. Such a cool character

b3nmw

Couldn't of been any closer. Think the yank should of won, it was as if he messed up right at the end. Cracking race and well done Mr. Bolt

urban

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I agree 100%
Cheat once, slap on the wrist with a two year ban.
Cheat again, banned for life

Blue by You

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My thoughts exactly

ReallyReallyGoodMeat

You joke, but right now it's exactly how I feel. How can anyone be presumed clean at the moment, Bolt included? And considering how 'unexpectedly' fast he was in the final, just plants seeds of doubt.

Athletics as a sport is ruined for a generation IMO.

Blue by You

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So how do you rate Jess's wicked heptathlon performance? After giving birth last year and suffering injury earlier this year, to then come back and win gold surely casts her in the same light as UB by your reckoning.
Bolt won by 1/100th of a second, or something similar. Assuming Gatlin has learned his lesson (questionable perhaps) ad is now clean, that's hardly a comfortable winning margin considering the consequences (for Bolt) of being found guilty of doping.
I get where you're coming from, but at some point you have to accept that top athletes do pass the tests and not everyone is painted with the doping brush.

ReallyReallyGoodMeat

Indeed, but as we know, there are plenty more who are doing it and not being caught, or are being let off.

From my perspective there's definitely a sentiment in our media that our British darlings of athletics would never do such a thing, it's something other countries do, and our guys/gals are being cheated out of medals. I don't buy that, and I don't buy the truth that the media and sports brands would love us to believe, that their World superstars are all drug-free, it would hurt their bottom line.

Blue by You

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Leaving sentiment aside, are you sceptical about Jess as well? After all is it not as remarkable a performance as that by UB.

ReallyReallyGoodMeat

To be honest no I'm not as skeptical, because she isn't setting superhuman times/distances/whatever like some others. Perhaps it's because she's a heptathlon athlete that I think that, but she's just a damn good all-rounder rather than excelling and setting records in any outright event.

Would I be surprised if it came out that she was not clean? Yes, but not as much as others would be I suspect.

legb4rsk

Gatlin is supposed to be clean so how come he is faster now?Please explain.

He's still at it but has learnt over the years how to avoid detection.
The testers are always going to be playing catch up.

David Lock

Usain was actually slower in the final than his rival was in his heat.


I listened to a depressing interview on Radio 5 where a convicted dope supplier was explaining, at length, the techniques and substances that are available to athletes to improve performance. He was saying that many can't, or are not, currently part of the testing regime. Some can be used the night before a race and some can be taken months in advance. Testosterone, as an example, would add about 2 yds extra for a male 100m sprinter and double that for a female as they have less natural testosterone to start with.


If what this guy was saying was true the doping problem hasn't a snowball's chance of succeeding.


For rhe record I think Mo, Jess and Usain are clean but what would I know


dl

Paben

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By this reckoning, the only way to be considered clean would be to come last or next to last at every event. Even in a totally drug-free environment someone has to win!

Paben

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The muscle gain achieved when taking testosterone and steroids remains in place long after the athlete comes of those drugs, all the more reason for banning people on certain drugs forever.

urban

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Well I agree with you.

daveyj

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Glad Bolt won, especially if claims to be clean ring true (Asafa Powell and The Beast both on same team and got caught doping). The media love a soap opera and have hammered Gatlin, but he wasn't the only ex-doper (or previously caught doper) on that field. Tyson Gay was banned too and Powell. I can't see how Gatlin is getting quicker at 35 and remaining clean yet Bolt is slower (albeit has been injured) at 29.

I'd like to think he's won an honest race. But then if they were all doping then tbh I wouldn't care. I think too much energy is wasted on something that is never going to go away. Too many people appear to think the sacrifice of dignity is acceptable to simply win and for that reason amongst more I'm sure, there will always be doping.

markr1963

200m... good race, great champion :-)

dpb

i reckon he might get beat before he retires , but not often

Tony Harrington

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Destroyed Gatlin again. Thought our guy ran an excellent race as well.

hux309

Wasn't fast enough to dodge a segway mind

b3nmw

Gd race

Dirk Diggler 75

Great race from an outstanding athlete .......