http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/20/sports/olympics/20sprinters.html

“The country’s so small, if you take drugs, you would be embarrassed,” said Michael Frater, who qualified in the 100. “In the States, it’s big, so you can move around, but here, you can’t move.”

Two Jamaican sprinters who trained in the United States flunked steroids tests when they came home for national championships: Jarrett in 2001 and Steve Mullings, who ran for Mississippi State, in 2004.

“I caught them,” said Dr. Herb Elliott, the public health officer in charge of athletic drug testing during competitions on the island. “We’re vigilant.”

Several Jamaican stars, including Powell’s older brother, Donovan, have tested positive for stimulants.

Ellen Campbell-Grizzle, the director of the National Council on Drug Abuse, said surveys of Jamaican adults and teenagers showed “0.0000 percent” had used steroids. “We have other fish to fry,” she said.

At the same time, surely no one would be so naïve to think that there are no performance-enhancing drugs here. “It’s third world, so there is not that much availability here,” the sprinter Dwight Thomas said.

Mills, Bolt’s coach, said: “There is always the possibility of someone getting tempted, but by and large Jamaica does not have a drug culture as it pertains to sports. Some have been caught, but not when they train full time in Jamaica.”

Juliet Cuthbert, a former Jamaican Olympic sprinter, said she worked with an American coach who encouraged her to use drugs. She left him, she said, and coached herself.

LOL!

Now I know why you chose your sobriquet!

Thanks for commenting AKA_LOL!

It will be very, very disheartening to all Caribbean people to know that the secret of the Jamaican victories lay in their syringes and not in their sinews!

Thanks for commenting, Mike.

Thanks for the clarification, Mike!

I have no beef with the frequent testing, as its supposed to ensure that everything is fair and balanced.

The thing is, weren’t most of the sprinters caught using illegal performance enhancers from the US, UK, or Canada, where they’re supposedly tested more often due to their formalised drug testing programs?