Quote Originally Posted by Moodybluebird View Post
The reigning 100m world champion Christian Coleman has just received a 2 year ban for a doping violation.

A staggering fact is that of the 50 fastest 100m times ever run, 35 are by athletes who have failed a dope test, missed a dope test or were suspected of doping. The other 15 fastest times were run by one man...
...Usain Bolt !

It's no wonder that a sport I loved to watch more than any other no longer has a place in my heart. All cheats should receive a lifetime ban in my opinion. Otherwise the sport will continue to be dogged by suspicion.
That's an amazing stat about the fifty fastest times. I agree about life bans, but I reckon that policy would be one court challenge away from being overturned on something like human rights grounds.

I'm not sure if there was one single incident when it happened, but sometime within the last thirty odd years the athletics watching public lost faith in the sport and I struggle to see how that faith can be restored- for myself, I always looked at it differently after the 1988 Olympics where one of the sprint champions was shown to be a drugs cheats and there were strong suspicions about the other one.