Bolt and Phelps not on steroids? No way!!!?

Question

Why doesn't the media ever question the use of performance enhancing drugs?

Track and Field:

Carl Lewis, Ben Johson, Maurice Greene, Marion Jones, were all celebrated in their time with no criticism coming up on illegal steroid use. Now we know that they used them. If Marion Jones had not admitted to it, she would never have gotten caught. They tested her over and over again and found nothing.

Swimming:

I find it very hard how fast Phelp's body can regenerate in between all these races. Before you had swimmers who would only swim a few races the most b/c it would wear down their body too much for other races. They had the best coaches and used the best nutrition. Now he shows up and swims everything in world record time with no regeneration needed.

There's a lot of money in sports and the chemical structure of steroids is constantly being changed. They come out with new stuff all the time. Stuff they can't test on since they don't know it even exists. That's how you explain Marion Jones who never got caught even though she tested over and over again.

Answer 1

I don't think Phelps is at all. At least the other swimmers have a chance at beating him. He's not invincible. I just think he's a really hard worker and doesn't deserve people accusing him of such things.

Bolt, I'm not one to judge, but when you make the other professionals look like little children, something's got to be up.

Answer 2

phelps body pumps 30 litres of blood round the body evry minute, twice the average making it easier for him to swim record times more often

Answer 3

so i guess next olympics champions your gonna say they took steriods and the olympics after that and so on...so basically for you there will never be a "clean" champion..

Answer 4

It's possible, judging from the past. Phelps more likely doping than Bolt though.

Answer 5

There is always that possibility.  But then again they can just be exceptional athletes.  

Answer 6

STFU.

Bolt is an awesome runner.

Phelps is an awesome swimmer.

(Somebody didn't make his school track team)

Answer 7

You're alone on this one. Ever think they could just be really great athletes?

Answer 8

it's called talent

which is what you don't have, which made you come here to whine about how phelps and bolt are taking drugs

there is a chance, but why would they risk it?  

Answer 9

i dont know about bolt, but id hope he wanst on steroids since he seems like a good guy and he seems very passionate about his country. but with phelps i really dont think hes on steroids hes a freak thats all their this is to it i mean size 14 feet hes got shorter legs then a person his height should have and hes got longer arms then a person his height should have. so he has a huge advantage their. and im glad he did so well these olympics since hes a good and cool guy.

Answer 10

They're all on drugs. There's no way that a clean champion could beat drugged up opponents. The challenges and volunteering for extra tests is just like the magician who brings the member of the audience to the stage to look in the empty box. That's because the athletes are confident that their own druggy predelictions are not yet detectable in the tests.

Answer 11

Do you think the athletes who did get caught would have took drugs if they didn't think there was a very good chance of getting away with it? It stands to reason therefore that a lot of athletes did get away with it at these games no matter how stringent the tests were.