{"id":21431,"date":"2013-07-26T00:16:47","date_gmt":"2013-07-25T22:16:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/bolt-says-that-he-is-clean\/"},"modified":"2013-07-26T00:16:47","modified_gmt":"2013-07-25T22:16:47","slug":"bolt-says-that-he-is-clean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/bolt-says-that-he-is-clean\/","title":{"rendered":"Bolt says that he is clean"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t    <a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/?attachment_id=10745\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10745\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-10745  \" alt=\"Usain Bolt says recent drugs revelations involving Jamaican sprinters have set the sport back. Photo: Martin Rickett \/ PA\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/0f5f1_Usain-Bolt-010.jpg\" width=\"373\" height=\"223\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Usain Bolt says recent drugs revelations involving Jamaican sprinters have set the sport back. Photo: Martin Rickett \/ PA<\/p>\n<p>Usain Bolt has insisted that he is not a cheat and that the <a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/gay-and-powell-cause-a-tragedy-for-athletics\/\" target=\"_blank\">recent doping scandals<\/a> in sprinting have set the sport back.<\/p>\n<p>Tyson Gay, Asafa Powell and Sherone Simpson are among a number of athletes to <a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/randall-third-jamaican-to-test-positive\/\" target=\"_blank\">fail recent tests<\/a> ahead of the world championships next month.<\/p>\n<p>Bolt admitted \u201cIt\u2019s going to set us back a bit,\u201d adding that he hopes to \u201chelp people forget what has happened\u201d with his own performances. But he stressed: \u201cI am clean.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cIf you were following me since 2002 you would know that I have been doing phenomenal things since I was 15.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was the youngest person to win the world junior title at 15, I ran the world junior record at 18, the world youth record at 17.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have broken every record there is to break, in every event I have ever done. For me, I have proven myself since I was 15. \u201cFor me, I have shown I was always going to be great.\u201d \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Guardian<\/a><\/p>\n<h6 class=\"zemanta-related-title\">Related articles<\/h6>\n<ul class=\"zemanta-article-ul zemanta-article-ul-image\">\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4umf.com\/tyson-gay-dropped-by-adidas\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/0f5f1_185238988_80_80.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/4umf.com\/tyson-gay-dropped-by-adidas\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tyson Gay Dropped By Adidas<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/?px\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/11c71_zemified_h.png\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Usain Bolt says recent drugs revelations involving Jamaican sprinters have set the sport back. Photo: Martin Rickett \/ PA Usain Bolt has insisted that he is not a cheat and that the recent doping scandals in sprinting have set the sport back. Tyson Gay, Asafa Powell and Sherone Simpson are among a number of athletes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[3258,830,885],"class_list":{"0":"post-21431","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-mysport","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-sport","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21431\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}