I would like to thank the emails I get from members wanting to get the myths of sports performance dispelled. Lately, the garbage coming from coaches sharing what they are doing with athletes or rewriting history is bad for sports and this industry so here goes.I hear that bobsleigh athletes are freaks. They out sprint the sprinters, out lift the lifters, and are leaner and bigger than linebackers [...]

Many of the most recent drug busts and accusations have been to those who most vehemently denied, AND EVEN SPOKE OUT AGAINST, the use of PEDs in sport: Marion Jones? Justin Gatlin? Mo Greene?Were these athletes just trying to clear a guilty conscience? Were they forced in to the PR work by their managers or national governing bodies? Perhaps they were trying to keep their future / potential rival [...]

A recent article in the NYT implicates recently retired Mo Greene as a long time drug cheat. Many consider Mo to be the greatest sprinter of all time and he's almost undeniably the best 100m specialist of all time. While the article is more about Trevor Graham, his dealings with a drug dealer by the name of Angel Heredia and their pending court battles, it reveals some good information on the und [...]

I think we all saw it coming but it's always hard to say goodbye to a champion. He's struggled with injuries and inconsistent performances over the past 5 years but there's no questioning the guy enters the track pantheons as one of the greatest of all time. He was not only a great athlete who was always at his best under pressure (hear that Safa?) but he was a great spokesman and entertainer f [...]

Apparently the greatest short sprinter of all-time is preparing for one final year of competition. http://www.kansas.com/sports/other/story/206900.htmlAnyone think he still has any rocket fuel left in the tank? He's 33 now and has been plagued with injury over the past 5 years. He's show flashes of briliance every now and then but not enough to make it through the rigorous Olympic Trials f [...]

Here's an interesting article on sprint great Mo Greene from Reuters News:Former Olympic 100 metres champion Maurice Greene, happy to emerge unscathed after finishing last in his heat at the Adidas Track Classic on Sunday, has set his sights on next month's US nationals. The 32-year-old American, making only his second competitive appearance of the year, clocked a time of 10.84 seconds bu [...]

A new sprint phenom or a flash in the pan. Read this article from the San Antonio Express News and decide for yourself:Here are the 100-meter times of top U.S. sprinters as teenagers or high schoolers (and what happened to each sprinter since): Rynell Parson, Stevens, March 3: 9.99 (Hand-timed and wind-aided at the East Central Invitational. His automatic 10.43 was the nation's fastest [...]

Can these oldies still prove to be goodies? Read this Millrose Games press release and decide for yourself?NEW YORK CITY (Jan. 23) – Gail Devers, a two-time Olympic 100-meter champion, and  Maurice Greene, an Olympic gold medalist at 100 meters and a three-time World Champion, have been added to a star-studded field for the 100th Millrose Games, organizers announced today. Devers will c [...]

I just so happened to have the TV on tonight when a show I had never seen came on. The show was called "Identity" and the premise of it is that a single contestant is given about 20 occupations and identities. The same number of people are standing in front of the contestant and they have to guess which identity matches up with each person. Well it just so happened that Maurice Greene wa [...]

A recent survey revealed Graham had coached 30% of the athletes banned for two years or longer, Maurice Greene's old trainer John Smith 15% and Remi Korchemny, who worked with Britain's Dwain Chambers, 10%. The agents who managed the most banned athletes were Emmanuel Hudson with 15%, Renaldo Nehemiah, Gatlin's manager, 15% and Charlie Wells, who worked with Marion Jones and Montgomery [...]