In Beijing, Jamaica made full board on the runway. After 26 of 47 events, Wednesday, August 21, the island birthplace of Usain Bolt trônait the top of the table of medals in athletics with 7 breloques - 4 gold and 3 silver -, ahead of Russia, States United,wholesale Kenya and Ethiopia. Russia, which has 7 athletes suspended for doping in a large household pre-Olympic fact arcs. Despite their 14 medals (3 gold, 5 silver, 6 bronze),mp3 players the Americans, overshadowed in the sprint events queens, instead of grinding teeth.
While Jamaica, désargentée, slow to establish an agency to fight against doping, Marion Jones is not in prison for perjury after lying to federal agents in connection with the investigation into the Balco case, led to the suspension or the end of their careers of dozens of athletes? The special envoys of the American press in Beijing to keep suspicion yet moved toward the Caribbean sprinters,mp3 players and patriotism complacent.
If OJ sees these as "commercially disastrous" for athletics, a minor sport in the USA, which held in Beijing during truster headlines of sports pages before the resumption of American football championship,mp3 players Elliott Almond San Jose Mercury News advocated caution. "It showed the finger at the Soviet bloc, then the runners substantive Chinese in the early 1990, quite rightly, said the Californian reporter who revealed the Balco case. But the public should not imagine that under the banner starry everything is clean, even though it is surely more difficult to circumvent the control system from Balco. "
Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union is rather suspicious in the attitude of some of his compatriots to compete Jamaican "a patriotic pride who wakes up every four years." "The biggest American athletics meetings attracted little more than a few thousand people,wholesale even with a beautiful poster, he said, and these Games there will change little of what happens. But we must keep a critical eye. " The American press has also applied to return winner (money of 50 m) in the basins of its 41-year swimmer, Dara Torres. However, mp3 players Michael Phelps, winner of eight titles in Beijing, a "virtually had a free rein," admits reporter. |
