I do agree that Jamaican T&F fans have in the past been as unfair as anyone else when accusing other athletes of being drug cheats.
Check out Carl Lewis, I don't remember anyone here going to chemistry school to research to see if he tested positive for a stimulant, a steroid or some thing else. All we knew was that he tested positive and it was covered up. Now all of a sudden we are all bio-chemists and every drug and its effects are to be researched before we accept that we screwed up.
But fans will be fans. Authorities should do better or be called out.
Check out Carl Lewis, I don't remember anyone here going to chemistry school to research to see if he tested positive for a stimulant, a steroid or some thing else. All we knew was that he tested positive and it was covered up. Now all of a sudden we are all bio-chemists and every drug and its effects are to be researched before we accept that we screwed up.
The second of Carl Lewis' four consecutive Olympic long jump victories, in 1988 didn't become controversial for another fifteen years. In 2003, the U.S. Olympic Committee's former director for drug control, Dr. Wade Exum, revealed that Lewis had tested positive for small amounts of three banned stimulants at the 1988 Olympic Trials. The U.S. Olympic Committee neither banned Lewis nor released the test results publicly, ruling that his drug use was inadvertent and that the low levels discovered were not performance-enhancing. The levels of stimulants found in his test were less than 10 micrograms per milliliter.
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