Some of the guilty ones are forever innocent

[Karl]

Some of the guilty ones are forever innocent

BY TREVOR HALL

Wednesday, June 25, 2014

THE reason many people love track and field is that the 100 metres and the marathon are the same distance for everyone. However, off the track, politics, power, and nationality influence the penalty athletes receive for failing drug tests.

The second-fastest sprinter in history failed three drug tests for using performance-enhancing substances, and he got only a one-year retroactive ban, which permitted him to compete the next month. Yet, two sprinters in the small Caribbean island of "wood and water" got a one-and-a-half year suspension, or two seasons, for taking tainted supplements that did not enhance athletic performance. Justice appears to have taken a holiday; however, it is not that simple, and it never is.

http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/colum...ocent_16709371

[myYout]

1. "The second-fastest sprinter in history failed three drug tests for using performance-enhancing substances, and he got only a one-year retroactive ban"

2. Yet two sprinters got a one-and-a-half year suspension, or two seasons, for taking tainted supplements that did not enhance athletic performance.

Sprinter 1. a weh him come from again? a dem run tings easy ting dat. Fi wi athlete dem being accused all ovah electronic media wid assertions bout wi program. IAAF seh dem nah appeal di Gay decision, nuh joke dat. But since ah yah suh wi eat ah food jus bi nice ah nobaddy question nutten, kah ah fi dem college allow wi fi develop an progress.