Gay’s 9.69 justifies Bolt’s times
Posted by admin on Sep 24th, 2009 and filed under News
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KINGSTON – Glen Mills, coach of triple Olympics and world championships gold medallist, Usain Bolt, believes Tyson Gay’s 9.69 seconds run has proved his athlete’s times were achieved legally.
“When he (Bolt) ran 9.69 and now 9.58, everybody say ‘bwoy something is wrong … and when Tyson ran 9.69, it showed that these times are not impossible,” commended Mills.
Mills’ statement was based on questions about Bolt’s cleanness, especially when he first stunned the world with the electrifying times of 9.69, easing down some 10 metres out in the 100m and 19.30 for the sprint double at last year’s Olympics. He has since lowered both marks, 9.58 and 19.19 to take gold medals in both events at the Berlin World Championships.
Mills also believes Gay, who ran 9.69, the joint second fastest time ever while setting an American record in the men’s 100 meters at last Sunday’s Shanghai Golden Grand Prix in China, can run faster.
“I am sure that Tyson will run faster,” Mills added while saying “we have some youngsters who are going to run some times, and they too are going to come under the microscope”.
“Usain has never failed to drugs test,” Mills told at a press conference on Thursday. “We have nothing to hide,” he continued.
OK this thread can get rapidly out of control. Suffice it to say, Mills is getting onto thin ice and should just shut up about now. Going after the source of negative stories will lead to a war he might come to wish he never got involved in.
The deal is that this has always been a training site rather than an opinion/bitch site. There are plenty of those around and this is a hot topic for them, where they try to separate the pure (read them) from all the dirty cheaters out there (read everybody else).
I hesitated initially before posting this story because, although interesting in some ways, it was also broaching the topic which wrecks websites. However I did post because at least on one level it shows that if One man can do something, then others surely can also. It helps note that once a “barrier” is broken, others will run through the same space. And that is encouraging.
Mills is going way overboard on this whole issue out of panic IMO. Using someone else, about whom you can know little, as proof of your cleanliness is a bad plan indeed because a problem there reflects on you too.
He’s getting heat over the positives and is lashing out in all directions, threatening lawsuits and demanding the source for the newspaper article on Bailey, when he knows damn well who was shopping the story on the circuit to anyone who would listen, which will further exacerbate the war between groups in Jamaica, which had, till recently, gone quiet.
