Carl Lewis Suggests Usain Bolt Uses Steroids: 'If You Don't Question That, You're a Fool'

If only Carl admitted to is own use

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it obviously hurts Karl to know that someone did smash his record and set records doing it. that is understandable but Karl's feelings will heal with time. maybe he is telling us something else? like... he must have used it back them and was not caught? well, i don't want to think that but Karl need to stop and let the doping testing organizations do their jobs.

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Indeed 'condescending bullcrap'.

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It is unfortunate that Carl Lewis would attempt to discredit Usain Bolt's achievements by his suggestion of drug use. This highlights his ignorance and his comments has diminished the respect I have for him. Usain has set records at just about every level of his carreer and his youth and junior achievments are superior to Carl's. Usain was World Junior Champion at 15 years old and is the only Junior to run under 20s. We (Jamaicans) are not surprised by Usain's achivements.

I would not be surprised if Usain has been tested more times this year that any year of Carl's career and in an era of better and more stringent testing methods. I am happy that Usain (and others) train in Jamaica and away from the mecca of drug cheats and liars and across several sports.

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CARL IS A FOOL OF THE BIGGEST KIND. LEAVE IT ALONE CARL. BOLT IS A YOUNG GREAT JAMAICAN CHAMPION. NOT A DRUGS MON. UNLIKE AMERICAN RUNNERS WHO GET RECORDS IN THERE 30'S. WHO ARE THE REAL USERS.? LIKKLE BATTY BWOY LEWIS

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CARL,
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GET BACK IN THE CLOSET AND STAY THERE !

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Anyone who knows track and field, also knows that it takes two or three years to increase your speed from 10:03 to 9.69 as Usain Bolt did (in just one year). At those speeds, every 10th of a second is almost a full stride, so the question is: "How did Bolt run about 3 1/2 steps faster in just one year?" As we have seen recent years several runners who had similar big improvements were found to have been cheating. So, unfortunately, Carl is correct in asking the question. But let's all hope that in fifteen years, Bolt will been seen as a sports icon himself!

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This is not a world where people examine things - we seem to follow people blindly and are shocked when we are fooled. Repeatedly. Best that Carl be quiet. Don't contradict. Don't say the things anyone would think. Query to the writer though - Lewis' listing as using banned substances - I understood it to be cold medicine etc - what are the facts? You chose to diss Bolt, you can at least examine this issue.

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From 10:03 tp 9:69 in a year? Hhhmmm!

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has he been tested?maybe he was hurt when he ran 10:03 and just stepped it up in front of the world

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Olympic legend Carl Lewis is among more than 100 American athletes involved in a cover-up of drug use, documents reveal.

Lewis and two of his training partners all took the same three types of banned stimulants and were caught at the 1988 US Olympic trials, according to the documents released by a disgruntled former senior US anti-doping official, Dr Wade Exum.

But on appeal to their national Olympic committee, all were cleared of inadvertent doping. Two months later, at the Seoul Olympics, Lewis finished second in the 100 metres sprint. But when Canadian Ben Johnson failed his Olympic drug test, Lewis was awarded the 100m gold.

...Carl..You are a cheat and can not stomach someone outdoing drug free!!...The playing field is now level since the IOC and IAAF now knows about "The Clear".

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Hello Carl and other americans athlets that competed after got + test for drugs. What about your own test? What about the 10.000 pages accusing the americans and nobody did anything? And about Florence Griffith-Joyner , she never used drugs? Her record should be canceled.

http://www.cbc.ca/sports/indepth/drugs/stories/top10.html
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9903E3D81239F932A15755C0A9629C8B63&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

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DO YOU REMEMBER THIS CARL LEWIS?
r. Wade Exum's report that 19 American medallists were allowed to compete at various Olympic Games from 1988 to 2000 despite having earlier failed drug tests shocked some people in the sporting community but was no surprise to others.

For years, insiders had speculated that U.S. athletes were not immune to delving into doping to get ahead of the competition.

But how could this be? American athletes often spoke publicly against illegal drug use in sport, cursing the sports regimes of East Germany and China for systemic doping practices.

"There is no commitment to stopping the drug problem," said track and field star Carl Lewis in 2000. "People know the sport is dirty, the sport is so driven by records."

Little did Lewis know he would be named in Exum's report.
The five-time Olympic medallist was among the athletes named in more than 30,000 pages of documents released by former U.S. Olympic Committee anti-doping chief to Sports Illustrated and several newspapers in 2003. More than 100 athletes from several different sports tested positive for banned substances between 1988 and 2000 but were cleared by internal appeals processes.

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I used to almost have a lot of respect for Carl Lewis (get it?).. of course it doesn't matter to him, but he's a classic example of a former star who is jealous of an imminent legend: Mr. Usain Bolt. What's even worse, I surmise is that all of America's sprinters have been left scratching their heads, considering they were rightfully S.P.A.N.K.E.D. by a bunch of youngsters from an island nation the size of Connecticut! Carl Lewis is a classic example of American's who get b*tchy and nasty when their favorite guy or girl didn't win....

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Imagine America is trying to say a small island like Jamaica, has given usain bolt drugs that North America & Europe with all thier high technology cannot find it, think about it don't Americans really sound stupid!!!! I gues hate runs deep in the hearts of many, Bolt made all Jamaicans & Black people proud.

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Typical of Americans. Trying to police everything, I still respect Mr. Lewis though.

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OK Carl, I have lost respect for you. I really looked up to you. You reasons are that someone doesnt leave from 10.03 to 9.69 in a year.
while this maybe true and for all that are using the term "Anyone who knows track and Field". this goes to show that they DONT know it themselves, because before Bolt it was almost impossible for someone of his height and built be running that fast, but he did prove them wrong, VERY wrong. IF that was the case, why is it hard to believe that he can really rotate his strides fast enough to break records

Tall = Crappy Sprinter (WRONG)

You all are just sore losers and commend the youngster for his achievements from His Junior Years till now. These were foreseen by Many greats in the sport.

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It's not just Bolt, but the entire Jamaican team, men and women, whose overall improvement in just 14 mos is just plain improbable. Going back through the records, Bolt's improvement in just 11 mos is unmatched in history. To drop that amount of time in that short of time is, well, nearly impossible, if you know anything about the 100 and 200 and standard gradations of improvement by world class runners in those events. The Jamaicans continually slowed up at their finishes in almost every race, another tell-tale sign of cheating. Furthermore, Carl Lewis was the cleanest of competitors, and was always an outspoken critic of the cheaters, including those on the US team. He was one of the first to raise doubts about Flo-Jo's improbable perfermances in the Korean Olympics, when she radically improved her times at a time in her life when her abilities should have been sliding. Bolts', and the Jamaican team's performances, raised suspicions among track experts long before Lewis' recent remarks--they most likely have been doping.

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