Sprinter Usain Bolt keen to keep winning so that people stop doubting athletes
Sprinter Usain Bolt keen to keep winning so that people stop doubting athletes
Usain Bolt, the world's fastest man, believes it will take time for people to believe that his performances are possible without doping.
The 23-year-old Jamaican, who won three Olympic titles in world record times in Beijing last year, clocked the fastest 100metres ever in Berlin in August, winning the World Championship title in 9.58 seconds an astonishing 0.11secs faster than his previous world best.
Bolt again reiterated that he does not use performance-enhancing substances and believes he will confound the doubters by continuing to run quickly. "I'll continue running fast, I'm clean without a doubt," said Bolt, who has four of the 10 quickest 100m times in history and five of the top-10 200m times.
"As soon as you start running fast there's going to be a problem. It's going to take a couple of years for people to start believing that you're actually clean. If you continue running fast and doing it clean then over a period of time all the tainting will go away.
"People always say things, the sport has been through a lot, but it's changing. The IAAF is doing a very good job of cleaning up the sport," added Bolt on the sidelines of the launch of The Zeitz Foundation and The Long
Run.
