Dopers must stop else athletics will die: Bolt

TIL Desk Sports/ Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt, who prepares to race for the final time in his illustrious career, has issued a stern warning to his fellow athletes, saying they must stop doping otherwise track and field will die.

Bolt, an eight-time Olympic champion, will retire after this month’s World Championships where he will run in the 100m and 4x100m beginning Friday in London.

“I don’t think it gets any worse than that,” Bolt as saying while referring to the problems in Russia which he agreed had left the sport at rock bottom.

“But it’s on its way back up now. Hopefully, athletes will see what’s going on and understand that if they don’t stop what they’re doing the sport will die,” he added. Bolt, however, said he was hopeful that these perennial problems could be tackled as doping is not at all good for the sport.