{"id":28502,"date":"2016-05-19T08:00:26","date_gmt":"2016-05-19T15:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/bolt-positive-beijing-retests-bad-for-sport\/"},"modified":"2016-05-19T08:00:26","modified_gmt":"2016-05-19T15:00:26","slug":"bolt-positive-beijing-retests-bad-for-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/sports\/bolt-positive-beijing-retests-bad-for-sport\/","title":{"rendered":"Bolt: Positive Beijing retests ‘bad’ for sport"},"content":{"rendered":"

PRAGUE<\/strong> \u2014 Usain Bolt called it \u201creally bad news\u201d for sport after the announcement that 31 athletes were caught doping in retests from the 2008 Beijing Olympics.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s rough. It\u2019s rough in the sport,\u201d the Jamaican great said Wednesday. \u201cSomething that\u2019s been tarnishing the sport for years.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bolt was speaking a day after the International Olympic Committee announced that the 31 athletes could be banned from competing at the Rio de Janeiro Games. He said the World Anti-Doping Agency and others \u201care doing a very good job of cleaning up the sport. They\u2019ve proven that anybody who has cheated, they\u2019re going to catch.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bolt will run in the 100 meters at the Golden Spike meet in the eastern Czech city of Ostrava on Friday, his first race in Europe ahead of the Rio Games.<\/p>\n

He said he believed that the crackdown on doping could prove successful.<\/p>\n

\u201cHopefully, we can take steps forward in making the sports better and in the upcoming years we won\u2019t have these problems,\u201d Bolt said. \u201cBut, I think it\u2019s a process, and I think over time we will get better because they\u2019re doing such a good job.\u201d<\/p>\n

In track, Russia is banned from competing because of a WADA panel report detailing state-sponsored doping. The IAAF has yet to decide if the Russian track team will be allowed to compete in Rio.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t really think about it,\u201d Bolt said. \u201cFor me, rules are rules. I really don\u2019t make the rules, so, all I do is follow the rules. I can\u2019t really do anything about it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Friday\u2019s race will be his second 100 after clocking 10.05 seconds in the Cayman Islands on Saturday. After that, he needed a treatment in Germany on the way to Prague.<\/p>\n

\u201cI had a tight hamstring after the last race but I went to see a doctor and he solved the problem,\u201d Bolt said. \u201cI\u2019m feeling pretty good right now. I\u2019m feeling much better. I was training yesterday and everything was better.\u201d<\/p>\n

The six-time Olympic champion will race for the eighth time at the Golden Spike meet, part of the IAAF world challenge series.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ll be very happy with at least 9.8,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

In Europe, Bolt is only scheduled to race in the London Diamond League meet on July 22, two weeks before the Rio Games open.<\/p>\n

The 29-year-old Jamaican has not given up his goal to break his own 200 world record of 19.19, set in 2009.<\/p>\n

\u201cDefinitely, for me, everything\u2019s possible,\u201d he said. \u201cIf I can continue on the right path until I get to the Olympics, I definitely think there can be world records. I really want to run sub 19, that\u2019s my focus right now.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bolt acknowledged his career might be coming to an end but was still not there.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m definitely at the final stretch for sure,\u201d he said. \u201cI think I\u2019m coming to the end of the finish line but I can\u2019t say how close I am. I\u2019m just trying to close it out as best as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

PRAGUE \u2014 Usain Bolt called it \u201creally bad news<\/a>\u201d for sport after the announcement that 31 athletes were caught doping in retests from the 2008 Beijing Olympics. \u201cIt\u2019s rough. It\u2019s rough in the sport,\u201d the Jamaican great said Wednesday. \u201cSomething that\u2019s been tarnishing the sport for years.\u201d Bolt was speaking a day after the International […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":6,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-28502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28502"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=28502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}