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> Even the combination of an elite runner and anabolic steroids, though, was not enough to outcompete a genetic outlier. This ignores the (very likely) possibi
by prh8 9y ago
> Even the combination of an elite runner and anabolic steroids, though, was not enough to outcompete a genetic outlier.
This ignores the (very likely) possibility that Bolt is also doping, albeit with today's designer drugs and not anabolic steroids. When testing catches up to today's drugs, we will look back at Bolt differently. He is definitely a "genetic freak" as they say, but there's more to it than that.
- ethan_g 9y agoIndeed, Jamaica doesn't have strong anti-doping organizations and Bolt has teammates caught doping. I'd love to believe Bolt is clean, but I find it hard to give him the benefit of the doubt.
- paganel 9y agoSame here. I really tried to believe that Carl Lewis was not doping, as he was one of my heroes as I grew up, but as the time passes I realize that he was most certainly doping. The same will probably happen to today's kids who grow up with Usain Bolt being their idol.