Usain Bolt Says on Doping in Track: ‘We’re weeding out the bad ones’
Usain Bolt Says on doping in track: ‘We’re weeding out the bad ones’: RIO DE JANIERO — Usain Bolt said the sport of track and field is “going in the right direction” despite a recent onslaught of controversy stemming from state-sponsored doping system that kept all but one Russian track athlete out of the Rio Olympics.
“I must say, I think we’re weeding out the bad ones,” said Bolt, a six-time Olympic gold medalist and 11-time world champion.
“We had to go through the rough times to get to the good times. So in a few years, the sport should be cleaner.”
A report commissioned by the World Anti-Drug Agency uncovered a doping program that ran from 2011-15 and involved 28 Olympic sports.
The report, conducted by WADA investigator Richard McLaren, found that Russia manipulated negative results with the knowledge of the Ministry of Sport, its own anti-doping organization and the Russian Federal Security Service.
n response, WADA recommended that Russia’s entire Olympic team be banned from the Rio Games. The International Olympic Committee declined to accept that recommendation, deciding instead to judge each athlete with a clean doping record on a case-by-case basis.
However, the same report was damning enough for the International Paralympic Committee to ban the entire Russian team from competition.
Russia’s doping agency is “broken, corrupted and entirely compromised,” IPC President Philip Craven said.
“In life, nothing is guaranteed,” Bolt said. “But for me, going out there, I never worry about that. That’s WADA and (the International Association of Athletics Federation) and IOC.
“I go there to compete and to wow the crowd and to entertain. I don’t worry about that. I just go and compete. In a few years it’ll be fine, I personally think.”
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