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Originally Posted by guivre1408
I don't know a lot about that, but isn't a sprinter supposed to dope all year if he wants it to be efficient ?
In cycling you take EPO in a mountain stage so you last longer in the effort, but in sprint it's all about developing the muscles all year to be the most efficient the day of the race no ?
I really have no idea. In the 9.79* 30 for 30, Ben Johnson talked about "rehabbing" from a hamstring injury leading up to the Olympics by getting special treatment for it. They also talked about having a doping cycle so that they would test clean leading up to the Olympics. If it's all about developing the muscles, then I assume you can do that and cutoff your meds prior to the cutoff for testing positive.
I assume that steroids are used in track much like they are used in other sports.... to recover quickly from an injury. So, while Bolt has been injured in recent years, running a 9.79 in an injury riddled year(s) would seem like a pretty good run to me.
Again, I follow distance runners more than sprinters and with the accusations surrounding Salazar and Galen Rupp, it would infer that it is a year round thing and from an early age. I know that Rupp does a lot of track workouts to improve his kick towards the end of the 5k/10k, but I don't know what role that has with regards to his alleged doping or his recent transition to the marathon. However, doping has been more prevalent in the Kenyan marathoners than ever before and I wouldn't be surprised if there was a lot of doping in marathon runners because of the money involved.