Let me lay this straight. Dwain is the ONLY athlete ever to have genuinely held his hands up and to have taken full accountability for his crime. Every international sprinter knows that the steroid decision always comes in your career. 'Should I, shouldn't I' is always on your mind, and if you end up mixing with the wrong crew, when your self-belief is low then chances are you may succumb to the temptation. I raced Dwain many years ago. He's a good guy, and I'm proud he's a Brit.
Couldn't agree more. Especially in a sport when I find it hard to believe that anyone hasn't cheated. (How can you beat someone on steroids really unless you are on then yourself) Great guy and was the fastest in the world for a brief moment.
Well I wouldn't say he just held his hands up. Balco was exposed so he had to talk because anyone associated would've been exposed. I do respect him though, he was a naturally talented athlete
LOL, your comment made me laugh and spit my ice cream over my laptop! I thought that!! I was like what the hell...oh, and she's very pretty too. Hist test levels probably went above normal physiological limits right there.
I take my hat off to him. It takes pure guts to come out and admit these things. We all make mistakes key is to learn from them. I would have loved it if he had made the 100m final. The man has 100% respect from me.
They are all on steroids.. I recently wrote my university thesis on this subject. What people don't realise is that WADA allow 4 times the normal amount of testosterone when drug testing because thats what is genetically possible. So, as an athlete...if you happened to have just the normal amount, what reason could you possibly have for NOT quadrupling your testosterone. Using undetectable steroids that same athlete could seriously improve his performance without ever testing 'positive'.
Is there anywhere I can access your thesis online? I would be extremely interested in reading yet. I fully agree with what you're saying. Every professional athlete is using steroids. Whenever I say this people always call me stupid lol.
@@1baby I would read that too they probably buried it and gave it a bad mark all the top athletes are juice babies. I think its further than that now and we have gene doping I cant imagine the amount of clean athletes that would have won but came 34th. Its horrific.
Loved sprinting as a young lad was a big fan of Dwaines growing up. Respect for this top guy he made his mistake, we can all make mistakes. This is quality 👍
Rugby, athletics, NFL, UFC, boxing any sport revolving around power. He knows because it's part and parcel of professional sport, its a given your on something. About 15 years ago I played rugby for my local academy. The first team were only semi professional and every single player bar none took something. They were all very open about it and encouraged us to start taking steroids at 15/16 years of age. If this is what happens at a semi pro level what do you think happens at the elite end???
I'll put it to you like this, my mate got caught using steroids and subsequently got banned from playing professional rugby for 2 years. When asked why he'd taken them by his mates, family etc his answer was very simple. " You dont play professional rugby unless you take steroids, theres no way your body could cope with the demand and stress put upon it "
Some people need to get in the real world and do a little research of their own. ALL the top sprinters and indeed ALL the top athletes are on some kind of performance enhanser, It's how elite level sport is done.
@MrOdsplut I'm not disputing whether or not Chambers should ever be allowed to compete again...I was arguing for athletes/society respecting drug regulations and the penalties that will follow them. Your branching off onto a whole other topic.
@awacs52 how do you know i dont, you dont know me i used to be an athlete and i quite cause i kept getting injured so dont tell me i cant comprehend what every athlete does, have you ever done training when you come off the track feeling ill after a hard session, no didnt think so
Everybody peaks at different ages though. Some athletes peak at 18 others at 36. If it was all about running the fastest at a young age than Mark Lewis-Francis would be #1. Yet as we all know he hasn't done shit in 10+ years from when he was 18. Same as the Australian sprinter Matt Shirvington.
That`s ok, kudos to Dwain for talking about it so openly. If you run 10.4 as 17 year old, you can eventually run 10.0 without THG and growth hormone, and what have you.
ye, I agree with your opinion,.......those who don't take it are not in the elite,.....and you saw them in some semifinals or so,...but not in the finals,.....bitter truth;)
You stated that "TOP" sprinters are doping for sure, right? Well let me see Jeremy Wariner, Oscar Pistorius, Blake Leeper, in many others are sprinter are they doping also ? Please, i beg of you to give me a Piece of paper stating that all "TOP" sprinters except Bolt are doping.
You stated people that i'm very knowledgeable about that indeed did drugs but, i never once stated the above name were not junkies. So in fact i'm agreeing with you on the listed names. Let's be clear here you were stating opinions on Flo and Gay but, when you came to defend yourself you started to bring up other athlete's. I'm confused by this, would you be kind enough to explain why? i understand many do drugs to enhance their performance but, not all.
Agreed. I would be prepared to give him more benefit of the doubt if it wasn't for Yohan Blake. Same as Shelly Ann Fraser. They all train together and all of them always come from nowhere to win World Champs and Olympics.
No mate its not rubbish.. and do you really think I'm gonna take your comment seriously after your claims of being a 'top 6 sprinter in the world' Common get real.
@vxSMOKEYxv its not something that should just be accepted...athletes need to understand that its cheating and that its illegal for very important reasons.
Some good points, while you can't prove definitively that they are on them and I cannot prove they are not on them, surely they should be considered innocent until proven guilty. Because at the end of the day even if there is only one one clean top level athlete in the world and all the others were on steroids that would make your assertion totally wrong.
Of course they're on another level genetically, to me thats a given, thats how they get scouted in the first place. Add PED's to the equation and thats how you get these phenomanally fast times.
I can recall Chambers coming through the ranks and being a junior to people like Linford Christie and the great John Regis. What a great interview and you can see why so many people like him. I always felt it was a shame that others in his periods did not own up to be cheats - especially Linford Christie who still says he is innocent when we all know he was the biggest cheat the nation has ever had. I know 100% he cheated because I know his source and I use to see him hang about Kensington with Shadow, Michael King, (an ex TV Gladiators who is a nasty evil man and convicted druggie and criminal - I think he is still in jail today). When you spoke to either of them you could see from their eyes they were both on the juice. I was so please Seb Coe did not allow Christie to have anything to do with the London Olympics. As for Dwain, I just saw him run in the 2024 UK indoor championships, I wish him and his family well - A very good guy who made a bad a bad choice but stood up like a man and took the punishment.
It's not stupid it's fact son, to think that all of them DONT take gear is stupid and very naive. If the average gym bunny is preperd to take these drugs simply to assist their workouts and look a bit better then how likely do you think it is that top level sports men and women whose whole world revolves around speed, power, strength and perfomance? Throw in to the mix that its almost inpossible that they will get caught if they do it right and we have a scenario where almost every athlete is on
@idontsignin Your initial comment can't be proved. My comment doesn't need to proved it the position you will find yourself in when you realise that your first comment was illogical. You don't fully comprehend what training every athlete does your last comment "If any athlete turns round and says They have never taken drugs then don't believe them, no athlete can get to the top of their chosen sport and win medals without being on drugs, it's impossible" is also erroneous.
well you still haven't provided any evidence have you, a conversation that happened nearly 80 years ago clearly doesn't count for much. I do like the idea of polygraph testing though, like in natural bodybuilding.
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yeah, he made a mistake but he served a ban and he's still living with the shame. He shouldn't be punished forever. At least he admitted it instead of trying to think of some bullshit excuse, like "it was my contaminated protein shake"
lol, omfg how can you be so sincere.. Bolt was running like 10.5 100m and BAM then he got some 9.8 inside a year? LeBron, like 30lbs of muscle from highschool to NBA in a year. ok?
They are all on steroids. Besides Usain Bolt i think Ben Johnson is the gratest sprinter of all time next to Bolt because zoo many people still cant run under 9.8 and Ben did it over 20 years ago while slowing down 10m before the line.
Dig a little deeper it's there for all to see. Watch the " Bigger, stronger, faster " documentary, watch the "Balco" interview, search Ben johnson see what he has to say on it. Its really quite well known, drugs are part and parcel of sport. Im not just on abouth athletics Im on about sport as a whole.
The worse thing to do is cheat years into your career like the bike ex legend which he didn't do, and the worse he could do after is give up... so glad he didn't.
A clean Dwain would've won the Commonwealths in '02, the World's the next year and would've been a serious contender for Athens. In hindsight, the drugs did more harm than good and not just because he got caught.
@@TheInterestedObserverKim Collins won the Commonwealths and World's in 9.98 and 10.07 respectively; times a clean Dwain was capable of. Granted he never ran 9.85, what Gat won the Olympics in, but with a few more years of steady progression and maturity anything was possible.
@@ThunderJuice Capable in the best conditions or capable in that particular race? His best time with a tail wind is not the same as that particular race which might have had head winds and other conditions. Collins' 9.98 might mean 10.1 for Dwayne in the same race. The Americans had the edge because of the drugs, even if it was fractions of a second, they did what they needed to win. I watched a documentary last night that said 75% of the athletes in the Atlanta meet were on PEDS, they got so many positive first tests that they did not even open the B-tests and came up with some story about results papers being shredded and lost etc
@idontsignin I will begin to tell you now. Real athletes don't quit and if you don't know your body then you won't know how to gauge training and thus you will become injured everytime. You get to know your body by training all the time and resting when need be. When you are chasing the bus when you don't have any intention to ride it, when you want to see if you can outrun dogs when you are up at 3am doing blast circuits because you know you have the energy to do so. You tried to be an athlete!
Also the fact that the testing is a joke in itself aswell and when they do actually get caught out, most of the time it is covered up. Carl Lewis and Linford Christie to name just two both failed numerous times.
That's absolutely absurd to me how can you say somebody like Tyson Gay be a junkie as the others? Tyson Gay has no reason to do drugs what so ever i mean do your research buddy he is a spokerperson for drug free athlete's. In come on now Gay would have been the main source of the media at the moment but, who is ? Usain Bolt ?? He's a great athlete but, many people speculate he's doing more then just training at his free time. Tyson Gay and Usain Bolt are great Athlete but,
Since the olympic final of 1988 every body in the line up has failed a drugs test yet they all deny it, Ben Johnson is the only one to admit it. I dont know about sum 9.3 but if Johnson had continued to compete he would have been the greatest sprinter of all time and think we would have seen perhaps a sub 9.5. Johnson failed because he was better than Lewis and Lewis couldnt take it, so cried to the IOC and demanded they get rid of him. PATHETIC
Your saying RU-vid like that's proof but, how can something be true from the web? People do everything to fix,edit, and correct something on the INTERNET the place that you gather all your evidence from, right ? Come on son be real. .. . Your opinions could sound a little more convincing. Also Bolt i'm a huge fan of him in honestly i agree that he's possible not doping like several other TOP athlete but, how can you say Gay who hasn't won a race in year is taking drugs??
