Is Usain Bolt on steroids

Is Olympic Sprinter Usain Bolt on Steroids?

As we prepare to watch the 2012 Olympic Track and Field events, all eyes are squarely
on Jamaican sprinter and world record holder Usain Bolt to see if he can match or
surpass his blindingly fast times from the Beijing Olympic Games in 2008. But does
anyone care to investigate whether the worlds greatest sprinter Usain Bolt is on steroids?

Usain Bolts Record Breaking History

In those 2008 Games, Bolt shocked the world by smashing the world record in the 100m
and 200m races, becoming the first sprinter to ever crack the 9.7s barrier by running a
9.69s (including the early celebration that began 5m prior to the finish line) in the 100m
and a 19.30s in the 200m. The following year at the 2009 World Championships, Bolt
lowered his time in the 100m to a seemingly impossible 9.58s and in the 200m to a mind-
numbing 19.19s.

The Case in Favor of Usain Bolts Steroid Use

In the three years since smashing two of the most famous world records in 2009, we
havent heard much from Usain Bolt. Rumors of injuries and relationships kept him largely
out of the public eye until he re-appeared on the scene at the 2011 World
Championships, where he ran a more modest 19.40s in the 200m before anchoring a
world record-breaking 400m relay for the Jamaican Team.

Since 2009, Bolt hasnt come close to touching any of his records and his performance at
the 2012 Olympic Trials (in which he ran a mortal 9.86s in the 100m and 19.83s in the
200m) seemed to indicate that his best times are well behind him.

But that would ignore the entire process of steroid cycling.

As everyone who understands steroids knows, athletes utilize Performance Enhancing

Drugs (PEDs) pursuant to a cycle that seeks to slowly elevate testosterone and growth
hormone levels (and corresponding to an increase in performance) to a peak that is
concurrent with a competition.

How Usain Bolt and other Olympic Sprinters Can Beat Olympic Drug Testing
A typical PED cycle would begin 12 weeks out from competition with the target date
being the day prior to or of the competition. Along with the use of undetectable steroids
and daily growth hormone injections, the athlete would also have his blood drawn on a
daily basis to monitor his testosterone and rhGH ratios in an effort to keep them within
Olympic World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) testing limits. Close monitoring of these
ratios allow an Olympic sprinter such as Bolt to both use PEDs up to the day of
competition while still comfortably submitting to multiple drug tests.

This isnt evidence particular to Usain Bolt, as it could just as easily describe the protocol
that every Olympic sprinter is using to pass the drug tests. However, it is mentioned
simply to point out how easily Olympic athletes are able to pass an Olympic-level drug
test, even with the highest levels of scrutiny. The bottom line is that if an athlete is within
the permissible testosterone and rhGH ratios, he is deemed clean. The reality is that any
athlete who doesnt maximize his testosterone and rhGH levels to the maximum
permissible level has no chance of breaking a world record.

For example, lets assume that a talented NCAA sprinter has a testosterone ratio
(testosterone: epitestosterone) of 1:1 which is considered normal, or average. The
current WADA guidelines permit a ratio of up to 4:1. Given the fact that the only way for
an NCAA sprinter to make any money sprinting is to win international competitions and
garner endorsements, what reason could that NCAA sprinter possibly have for NOT
quadrupling his testosterone ratio up to the maximum of 4:1? Using a number of
undetectable steroid compounds, that same athlete would presumably see a major
improvement in his sprint times without ever testing positive.

And this is the folly of drug testing: It gives dirty athletes all the ammunition they need to
proclaim themselves clean replete with Olympic level testing results.

Passing an Olympic Drug Test Does Not Make Usain Bolt Clean
The worst argument that anyone can make for Usain Bolt being a clean athlete is that he
has yet to fail a steroid or other drug test, despite being subjected to rigorous drug testing
protocols.

The reality is that most Olympic athletes have their blood levels so closely monitored that
only an egregious miscalculation in the timing of a steroid injection or use of a masking
agent (i.e. diuretics) to dilute the levels of a steroid within the blood would result in a
positive test. This is the only reason why we rarely see positive tests for Olympic level
athletes.

International steroid expert Anthony Roberts told Muscleweek: With regards to fooling the
Olympic drug tests, many of the same loopholes that existed ten to twenty years ago still
exist today. Until those loopholes are closed, there will always be a shadow of doubt
falling on the Olympics.

Roberts continued, Testosterone, hGH and most of the other highly potent anabolics are
virtually undetectable when we see a positive test and a tearfully apologetic athlete, he or
she probably represents less than 1% of those who are actually using banned
substances.

Olympic Drug Testing is a Joke

United States Olympic Gold Medalist Marion Jones proudly proclaimed that she passed
more than 160 drug tests in her career. The fact remains that she won three gold medals
at the 2000 Olympics while passing the supposedly stringent requirements of Olympic
WADA testing.

And yet, despite breaking world records in the 100m and 200m sprints; despite being
romantically involved with and coached by Olympic shot-putter CJ Hunter who tested
positive for steroids four times leading up to the 2000 Olympics and was subsequently
banned by the ITAF; despite being romantically involved with and coached by Olympic
sprinter Tim Montgomery who tested positive for steroids and was subsequently banned;
despite training under track coach Trevor Graham who has been banned for life from
track and field; and despite her affiliation with BALCO Labs and the insistence of BALCO
president Victor Conte who admitted to injecting Marion Jones with steroids, the general
public and sports journalists were still gullible enough to believe that Marion Jones was in
fact, a clean athlete.

As Marion Jones proved, testing clean means absolutely nothing.

Usain Bolts Track Coach is a Steroid Expert

Interestingly (and perhaps damningly) in making a case against Usain Bolt, a fact that is
often ignored is that the man who worked with Victor Conte at Balco Labs and later
testified against CJ Hunter, Tim Montgomery, Marion Jones, and yes current 2012 U.S.
Olympic sprinter Justin Gatlin was a man by the name of Angel Heredia. Prior to working
at BALCO, Angel Heredia was a national discus champion for Mexico. In the case
against BALCO and Graham, he is referred to as Source A and his testimony against
BALCO athletes in verifying the documents that detailed the drug schedules for those
athletes was crucial in obtaining convictions or confessions from those individuals.

But BALCO drug guru Angel Heredia never served a day in prison.
Even more suspiciously, sometime after 2008, Angel Heredia legally changed his name
to Angel Hernandez.

Pop Quiz: Why would Angel Heredia change his name to Angel Hernandez?

Answer: Usain Bolt hired the new incarnation of Angel Heredia to become his track coach
in 2009. Unfortunately for Mr. Heredia, Google Search can be a terrible thing for a man
with a past like Angel.

Here is a video of Usain Bolts track coach Angel Heredia (Hernandez) obtaining steroids
in Mexico and injecting growth hormone on camera for a German
documentary:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0GbnVdWaIU
And a small piece of the interview transcript from German publication Der Spiegels 2008
interview with Angel Hernandez:

PIEGEL: Mr. Heredia, will you watch the 100 meter final in Beijing?

Heredia: Of course. But the winner will not be clean. Not even any of the contestants will
be clean. (emphasis added)

SPIEGEL: Of eight runners

Heredia: eight will be doped.

SPIEGEL: There is no way to prove that.

Heredia: There is no doubt about it. The difference between 10.0 and 9.7 seconds is the
drugs.
Bolts Coach is more of a Chemist than a Coach
According to the New York Times, Usain Bolts track coach Angel Hernandez has referred
to himself as a chemist, scientist and nutritionist.

Pop Quiz #2: Why would the worlds top natural sprinter need the services of a chemist
affiliated with BALCO and multiple dirty sprinters?

Answer: A logical response would be that Usain Bolt isnt any more clean than Marion
Jones, Justin Gatlin, Ben Johnson, Tim Montgomery, or even Jamaican-born U.S.
sprinter Debbie Dunn who bowed out of the 2012 Olympics just days prior to the opening
ceremonies when she tested positive for a testosterone derivative.

Logic would seem to dictate that sprinters need sprint coaches, not chemists. But no,
Usain Bolt needs a chemist.

Just as those aforementioned sprinters who have broken track records before have.

Because a great sprint coach could never help a track athlete as much as a great
chemist can. Heres more from Usains coach explaining his precise skill set as it applies
to coaching in that 2008 interview:

SPIEGEL: So you became a therapist for the athletes in matters of drugs?

Heredia: More like a coach. Together we found out what was good for which body and
what the decomposition times were. I designed schedules for cocktails and regimens that
depended on the money the athletes offered me. Street drugs for little money, designer
drugs for tens of thousands. Usually I sent the drugs by mail, but sometimes the athletes
came to me.
Still not convinced? Consider this New York Times article from 2008 that documented
how Angel Heredia (Hernandez) was on the payroll of no less than 12 Olympic level
athletes, including Olympic Gold Medalist Sprinter Maurice Greene (detecting a pattern
here, no?):

In recent interviews with The New York Times, Mr. Heredia described how and with
whom he worked, sharing copies of records that appear to link him to many of the best
sprinters of the last decade. Those records include e-mail exchanges of doping
regimens, canceled checks, telephone recordings, shipping records, laboratory readings
of blood and urine samples, and Justice Department documents.

Among his clients, Mr. Heredia identified 12 athletes who had won a combined 26
Olympic medals and 21 world championships. Four of the 12 athletes, including Ms.
Jones, had been named and barred from competition for illicit drug use. Eight of the 12
notably, the sprinter Maurice Greene have never been previously linked to performance-
enhancing drugs.

Mr. Greene, a two-time Olympic gold medalist and a five-time world champion, has never
failed a drug test.

Mr. Heredia showed The Times a copy of a bank transaction form showing a $10,000
wire transfer from a Maurice Greene to a relative of Mr. Heredias; two sets of blood-test
lab reports with Mr. Greenes name and age on them; and an e-mail message from a
close friend and track-club teammate of Mr. Greenes, attaching one of the lab reports
and saying, Angel, this is maurices results sorry it took so long.
Why would an athletes own coach, errr, I mean chemist be testing his own athletes
blood?

Well, if you believe the coaches, its to analyze the blood and determine if there are any
deficits in any areas that may need to be addressed. But a chemist would just tell you
that its to confirm that the testosterone and ghGH ratios are within the legal limits. Who
would you believe?

Would you believe Usain Bolts coach? If so, then you might want to consider this, from
the same Times Article:

Mr. Heredia, 33, a former Mexican national discus champion, is a secretive figure on the
track circuit who describes himself as a chemist, scientist and nutritionist. The son of a
chemist, Mr. Heredia received an undergraduate degree in kinesiology from Texas A&M
in Kingsville, records show.

He said he used family connections to pharmacies and labs in Mexico to help his
business. For years, Mr. Heredia said, he helped his clients flout the rules and easily
avoided detection. Substances like human growth hormone and the blood booster
erythropoietin, or EPO, are still virtually impossible to detect, and it is still easy to use
testosterone with fast-acting creams, he said.

You combine all these things boom! you get amazing results, Mr. Heredia said.
Amazing, indeed. Earlier today, Usain Bolt just became the first Olympic athlete to repeat
winning Gold in the 100m and 200m sprints. His times of 9.63s in the 100m and 19.32 in
the 200m are his best times since the 2009 World Championships and after his 200m
victory, he boldly declared that he is the greatest athlete who ever lived.

It probably doesnt hurt that he just happens to have the greatest chemist who ever lived
right there in his corner.