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Steve Mullings.
Another Jamaican bites the dust (adding to the long list). I wonder if any of the naive types who come on here to declare how "clean" the Jamaicans/Bolt are will react to this. Anyway, no name yet, but the news has shown up in several articles, including:
Yet Another Jamaican Caught for Juicing
Lasix is what they give horses legally in most states as it's used for bleeding. I think the NYRA bans the usage for the same reason that it is banned for humans as it is a masking agent for steroid usage. If you look at file photos of Mullings he isn't a particularly muscular athlete in fact for a roider he looks downright weak. So he was probably using roids for recovery as opposed to strength and power. Anyway Lasix has been around for more than 20 years. I wonder if he was given a tainted "supplement".I think it's so painfully obvious right now that multiple guys out of Jamaica are using. Frater is one, Carter is another. Powell - maybe, at least he has been consistently fast for a number of years. I do think Bolt may be clean right now, however I think he was totally using when he set the records in 2009. He hasn't been able to get anywhere close to those times again! Everyone has their opinions or speculations, but I myself think that a good majority of the top black sprinters over the past couple decades have been using. It's not what you know, it's what you can prove, and they know that! If you can take a masking agent that the athletic associations can't yet test for, then you can't get caught! It seems very obvious here. I hope a bunch of guys will get caught now and they will realize they aren't a step ahead anymore. There's also a guy out of Zimbabwe, Ngonidzashe Makusha that has run a 9.89 this year. I checked IAAF.org and it shows he ran a 10.52 back in 2007 and hasn't run again until this year. Seems kind of odd to me, however I don't know anything about him and haven't done research so I'll reserve judgement. On a side note, does anyone know if they will strip all of Mullings' times he ran this year, or just ones that fall into the time period in which he was busted?
Yes for years Jamaican athletes were stuck around this range. Which is an excellent time for a clean athlete, but really nothing for a roider. People would be shocked how slow the times would be if athletes were forced to compete clean.Michael Frater is another guy who is the same age as Mullings that since 2003 has been floating right around the 10.1 to low 10.0 range and now suddenly he has a 9.85 and a 9.94 with enough wind variance to push him down to about a 9.79 at maximum wind. I wouldint be surprised if he fails in the near future as well.
Connect the dots his training partner is Tyson Gay. Clean and drug tainted athletes don't train together because of the training threshold of a clean athlete is so much less.I have it on good word that at least one more major bust is to come. This one is not Jamaican - a fast athlete is all I can say right now.
Damn !!!!
LOL. How did they find that it was not a Redbull drink but an energy drink that had a stimulant in it? They went back to Italy and found the bottle in garbage?Here we go again: Mike Rodgers caught for a stimulant. Probably out of the WCs. This must be one of the busts known for several days because the first articles to break the news already have his pre-prepared alibi. (I must admit that there are no human beings on earth more creative than athletes--or their agents--trying to explain away a positive test).
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/14/us-doping-athletics-usa-rodgers-idUSTRE77D02Z20110814