Silvio Tattiescone Posted June 3, 2015 Share Posted June 3, 2015 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-32883944 Hope this isn't true Allan Wells 'took drugs ahead of gold medal win' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MuckleMoo Posted June 3, 2015 Share Posted June 3, 2015 Wouldn't be surprised in all honesty. I get the impression that drug use was utterly rampant in the 80s and early 90s Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hirop Posted June 3, 2015 Share Posted June 3, 2015 funny if it turns out to be LSD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silvio Tattiescone Posted June 3, 2015 Author Share Posted June 3, 2015 Watched the documentary, load of rubbish. No proof whatsoever, just one bitter Weedgie fur saying "Ah Kent Wells took drugs so ah did" and two Un-named athletes saying the same thing but they wouldn't go on camera. And a supposed tape that they didn't play of a Dr long dead who said he gave out drugs. f**k off BBC, that wasn't journalism. Pathetic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Savage Henry Posted June 4, 2015 Share Posted June 4, 2015 If it's not true, he will sue. If it is, then his legacy is destroyed. Very sad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergeant Wilson Posted June 4, 2015 Share Posted June 4, 2015 He was a Diddy. I could have won that race. None of the good runners were in it. He'd have been last any other year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiddy Posted June 4, 2015 Share Posted June 4, 2015 Wells never ran any startling times. His pb was 10.02 wind assisted. As for the missing Yanks, he beat their best on the European circuit that year. If he took drugs, they certainly weren't PE, he didn't get near the World Record. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LongTimeLurker Posted June 4, 2015 Share Posted June 4, 2015 If everybody was doing it and I strongly suspect they were, he still finished top on a level playing field. Maybe what irks some of his fellow former athletes is his outspoken opposition to something they suspect he did himself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diamonds are Forever Posted June 4, 2015 Share Posted June 4, 2015 Wells never ran any startling times. His pb was 10.02 wind assisted. As for the missing Yanks, he beat their best on the European circuit that year. If he took drugs, they certainly weren't PE, he didn't get near the World Record. Why does it mean they weren't performance enhancing just because he never got near the World Record? They just improve your performance relative to your own ability, they don't automatically make you the fastest man in the world. I don't know whether he cheated or not, but that's a bizarre statement to make. I do think people are very naive about the amount of cheating that goes on in sports, particularly the more unskilled sports like running and cycling. The sport as a whole needs to take part of the blame though for not speaking out. Alan Wells won Gold in 1980, if, and I emphasise if, this is true, that's 35 years of people knowing and not saying anything. Similar with Lance Armstrong, and presumably numerous others. I know it's easy for us to say and is probably not an easy thing to do to come out and reveal the truth, but it seems like people say nothing to 'protect' the sport and themselves, but in the long run it is hugely damaging. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1320Lichtie Posted June 4, 2015 Share Posted June 4, 2015 he apparently went from 11st7lbs to 14st7lbs within 2 years- if you think that it is possible to gain 3 stone naturally within two years as a grown man 2 years? Pfft I could do that over the Christmas holidays Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silvio Tattiescone Posted June 4, 2015 Author Share Posted June 4, 2015 No proof? You just mentioned 4 different sources of evidence corroborating the allegations! And you also forgot to mention the fact he apparently went from 11st7lbs to 14st7lbs within 2 years- if you think that it is possible to gain 3 stone of muscle naturally within two years as a grown man then you are clearly in need of a drugs test yourself! You call that evidence? Fishwife's gossip from a dead guy who wouldn't go on the record and two anonymous men in black who won't put their names to their allegations. Pathetic. I'll admit though that I'm biased and really, really don't want this to be true. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted June 4, 2015 Share Posted June 4, 2015 Athlete suspected without proof of taking the same drugs everyone else was 35 years ago shocker. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiddy Posted June 4, 2015 Share Posted June 4, 2015 Why does it mean they weren't performance enhancing just because he never got near the World Record? They just improve your performance relative to your own ability, they don't automatically make you the fastest man in the world. I don't know whether he cheated or not, but that's a bizarre statement to make. I do think people are very naive about the amount of cheating that goes on in sports, particularly the more unskilled sports like running and cycling. The sport as a whole needs to take part of the blame though for not speaking out. Alan Wells won Gold in 1980, if, and I emphasise if, this is true, that's 35 years of people knowing and not saying anything. Similar with Lance Armstrong, and presumably numerous others. I know it's easy for us to say and is probably not an easy thing to do to come out and reveal the truth, but it seems like people say nothing to 'protect' the sport and themselves, but in the long run it is hugely damaging. In Moscow, 28-year-old Wells qualified for the final, with a new British record 10.11 s, where he faced pre-race favourite Silvio Leonard of Cuba. By 60 metres the field were fading, and by 80 metres the race was between Leonard on the inside and Wells on the outside. Wells edged ahead, but Leonard drew even again. With seven metres to go Wells began an extreme lean which allowed his head and shoulder to cross the finish line 3 inches (76 mm) before Leonard's chest in a photo finish; both men were given a final time of 10.25 s.[2] Wells became the oldest Olympic 100 m champion at that time at the age of 28 years 83 days.[3] He remains the last white male athlete to win the Olympic 100 metres title. The 200 m final was another close affair. Wells from lane 7, exploded out of the blocks and ran a spectacular turn making up the stagger on Mennea to his outside after only 50 metres. Coming out of the turn he had a two-metre lead over Leonard, with Quarrie close behind in third while Mennea looking fully eclipsed. But Mennea shifted gears in the straight and caught Wells with 10 metres to go. Wells attempted a final dip which had brought him victory in the 100, but he fell short, and Wells won the silver medal[2] behind Pietro Mennea, who beat him by 0.02 s; again he set a British record of 20.21 s. He went on to break a third British record, 38.62 s, with the sprint relay team that finished fourth in the final. Following the Moscow Olympics, there was some suggestion that Wells's gold medal had been devalued by the boycott of the games. Wells accepted an invitation to take on the best USA sprinters of the day, among others, at a track meeting in Koblenz in Germany. Less than two weeks after the Moscow gold, Wells (10.19) won the final that included Americans[2]Stanley Floyd (10.21), Mel Lattany (10.25), Carl Lewis (10.30) and Harvey Glance (10.31). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Lambies Doos Posted August 31, 2015 Share Posted August 31, 2015 Wells was no cheat.. unless of course he was a nawbag. If so, throw the book at him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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