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Usain Bolt Gold Medals and World Records Results of Enhancing Drugs? Three-time Olympic Gold medallist, Usain Bolt, returns to his Caribbean island home of Jamaica as arguably the greatest Olympic runner ever. But did Bolt and his teammates have help? This, and many other questions are beginning to circulate at the International Olympics Committee headquarters. People are beginning to question the integrity of the Jamaicans’ achievements of winning 3 gold medals and setting 3 world records, among other athletic competitions.  Bolt is indeed suspect, but more so, are his Jamaican teammates and how they dominated other Beijing 2008 sprint races. Were the Jamaicans’ performances unnaturally enhanced? Jamaican officials emphatically say, NO! In a press conference, Don Anderson, the chef de mission of the Jamaican team said: “All the records that have broken and all the medals that have been won by Jamaica in the last two weeks have come after extensive testing of all of our athletes.” Anderson went on to say that: “Usain Bolt has been tested three times, Asafa Powell three times, Sherone Simpson three times, Veronica Campbell-Brown twice. All of the records that have been broken by Usain Bolt and all of the medals that have been won have come after extensive testing by the IOC, by WADA, and all of the other bodies involved with testing. That, in my mind, is adequate proof.” Bolt, has basically gone from being a good international sprinter, to doing inhuman things like: running 100 meters in 9.69 seconds, setting a world record time of 19.30 (seconds) in the 200 meters (breaking Michael Johnson’s 12-year-old mark), and sprinting the curve in the 4x100m in a preposterous 8.9 seconds. Nevertheless, Bolt isn’t the only Jamaican under scrutiny. Veronica Campbell-Brown, Shelly-Ann Frazer, Sherone Simpson, and Kerron Stewart are all suspicious of their overachieving-performances in the Beijing 2008 Olympics.
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