They finally found a way to beat Bolt

They couldn’t find anyone to beat him on the track.

They couldn’t find anything wrong with his blood/ urine samples.

So they decided to pursue him via a teammate, Nesta Carter, more than eight years after Jamaica’s 4 x 100 relay victory at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, China.

I for one find this whole scenario with Carter very fishy. Who can forget the attempts by the American- dominated media to cast aspersions on Jamaica’s athletes in the lead-up to the Rio Olympics? It generally went like this: how can such a small country dominate men’s and women’s sprinting unless they were cheating? If Carter had used the banned substance, why didn’t it show up before? Why did it take eight years? Oh, yes, new analytic techniques have been developed, so they say; conveniently, I might add.

It is oh so easy to get someone to come up with “findings” that you like.

Who can guarantee the state of a sample after an unlimited time? Surely, there must be some statute of limitation on how long after an event you can disqualify an athlete. If not, I suggest the authorities go back and test all the samples from Florence Griffith- Joyner.

After all, in the 28 years since she set the world record of 10.49 in the 100-metre heats of the US 1988 Olympic trials, no one has come anywhere close to that.

Her US teammates were stunned since her best time going into the trials was 10.96.

The official version of her extraordinary time has been “probably strongly-wind assisted, but recognised as a world record.” Perhaps now we can determine if she was “assisted” in other ways as well?

A Charles Mt Hope