100-metre record holder Powell expects to run against drug cheats in Beijing

0 Comments | AFP, February, 2008

SYDNEY (AFP) — World 100-metre record holder Asafa Powell says he is convinced he will race against drug cheats at this year's Beijing Olympics, reports said Sunday.

Amid claims by the former head of the World Anti-Doping Agency, Dick Pound, that Beijing will be the cleanest Olympics in history, the world's fastest man said he has his suspicions.

The Jamaican has refused to name those of his rivals he suspects but is adamant anyone who tests positive should be banned for life.

"I have a lot of suspicions but I keep them to myself," Powell told Melbourne's Sunday Herald Sun newspaper.

"It's always going to be there, that dark cloud, because people are wondering who is really on drugs.

"It's a very unfair sport. I get my satisfaction from...