If you look at the last 30 years of the men’s 100-meter finals at the Olympics, you’ll find a number of athletes who didn’t make it to retirement without getting saddled with a doping allegation.
- Carl Lewis: failed drug test, 1988
- Ben Johnson: failed drug test, 1988
- Linford Christie: tests positive for pseudoephedrine, 1988
- Justin Gatlin: failed drug test, 2006
- Maurice Greene: admits to buying performance-enhancing drugs, 2008
And then Usain Bolt comes along. He not only wins the gold in both the 100-meter and 200-meter finals at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing — he also breaks two world records for those races…
