...the views of an old fast runner has about as much cliout as those expressed by movie stars.
Oh and by the way
Faster, higher, stronger... cheater? U.S. athletics has introduced a fourth wheel into the Olympic motto heading to the Athens Games.
OLYMPICS: Tonique on target
It all started one year ago with leaked information on a previously undetectable steroid and the...shock hit the fan.
One by one, major stars from sprinter Kelli White to middle distance runner Regina Jacobs began dropping like flies as the clean up of U.S. athletics finally began.
After 25 years of rumours and cover-ups, the nation that pointed fingers quicker and shouted accusations louder than the others is now the one under the most serious scrutiny.
No, the suspicion goes way back beyond the discovery of THG.
Alarms roared last spring when news leaked that nine times Olympic gold medallist Carl Lewis had failed a drugs test in 1988, the year a "disgraced" Ben Johnson was stripped of his gold medal at the Seoul Games.
Lewis was awarded the gold and everybody was happy until 15 years later when disgruntled former senior U.S. anti-doping official, Dr Wade Exum, released 30,000 pages of documents stating that Lewis was one of among an astounding 100 athletes to test positive for drugs but nevertheless cleared by the U.S. Olympic Committee (USOC).
Just months later, the leaky facts dripped once again and another cover-up surfaced.
