Usain Bolt wants to win a third consecutive hat-trick of Olympic gold medals in Rio. Photo: Tom Oldham Photography
Six-time Olympic sprint champion Usain Bolt is a beacon of hope in a sport rocked by elite athletes who tests positive for banned substances, a top sports medicine specialist in Jamaica stated.
Dr Paul Wright says Jamaica would suffer from infinite distress should Bolt’s name fall on the wrong side of any drug test.
“Usain Bolt has been tested more often, I think, than all of the athletes in Jamaica, and he is well aware of his importance to the sport,” declared Dr Wright, the Jamaica Anti-Doping Commission (JADCo) doping control officer.
“I remember, and this is a quote from Usain, ‘if I test positive, the whole Jamaica dead’ and that is true”.
Meantime, Dr Wright is warning athletes, some of whom he believes are taking undetectable performance-enhancing drugs, that they will be caught.
“We are going to catch everybody. We all know that there are chemists who change around these steroids. All you have to do is change one of the wings of these steroids, it will have the same effect and it’s undetectable,” Dr Wright explained. – Trinidad Express Newspapers
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