Do you think the 2008 Jamaican track team is "doping"?

Question

I am impressed with the Jamaican team. They look like they are jogging when everyone is is running, but I have a suspicion that 5 years from it will be a story like Marion's. What you think about this?

Answer 1

my girl u and the others man who said thats all we jamaicans excell in is really upsetting me ...y would u say a thing like that ...jamaicans put years and hard effort into wut they do dtrivinging hard to accomplish the things they accomplish ...for many this is their way out ...so to anwser your question they are not doping ....they have jah pon dem side and ah him ah do it fi dem ...

Answer 2

Absolutely.  They are all too confident and too relaxed.  They have obviously found a way to beat the system.  I could understand if it was one guy, but it's everyone of their track athletes, both men and women.  It would be different if there was special equipment such as a swimsuit or speedskate.......maybe Michael was write...."It's got to be the shoes."  All I know is something smells.

Answer 3

I think they're clean. They show a steady rate of improvement, not a sudden unexplained jump like some of the chinese.

Answer 4

Jamaicans are good runners, mostly for sprinting, because they live in a weather that they are accustomed to(which is like hotter than the US).  That's one advantage I know about them.

Answer 5

no..the Jamaicans have a good history of track and field...thats about the only thing they excel in

Answer 6

Think back on what Jamaica was in the age of slavery, people were bred for work. It's sad but true. Runners, training runners with the genetics to back it up.  Look at the womans volleyball team,  one father was an Olympic Volleyball player ... genetics plus skill goes very far.  Mr Phelps will have kids that will be outstanding swimmers, just wait and see!

Answer 7

Yes they are doping.  I find it unlikely that all of their men and women in sprinting are all of the sudden "that much better" than the competition.

They have been good in the past, but not that much better than the rest of the world.  Also that is an enormous number of world class sprinters from a country the size of Vermont.

It would make sense if let's say, one of them became a standout as a gifted athlete...but their dominance is not likely to stand the test of time.

Answer 8

no, not at all

Jamaica & the rest of the West Indies has had a VERY STRONG tradition of Track & Field for over 100 years, and we have provided some of the best sprinters in the history of mankind. Its part of our culture, just like how Baseball is part of Dominican & PuertoRican culture, or how Soccer is to Brasil. Usain Bolt smashed the record because he's the best, not because of some drugs.

They arent suddenly "that much better" either, caribbean people ALWAYS been that much better than the competition....Jamaicans have been dominating track and field for decades, this aint no new phenomenon. Donovan Bailey ran for canada, but his parents were jamaican. Most of England's runners were jamaican or west indian as well. They ran for other countries because they had better opportunities there. The only ethnicity that ever produced runners to match caribbean sprinters is the African Americans. Ever wonder why the ENTIRE 100m Mens and Women's finals were black?

Di yardie dem weh come up big pon' di ackee an' salfish and green banana, of course dey gwan mash up dem weak likke runners from di united states

Answer 9

No.  They have an inbuilt talent for hard work.  An ethic than can't be sneezed at.