Doping's biggest theft is stealing belief in the amazing

EUGENE, Oregon (AFP) — This is the sound of track and field's heart breaking, shattered by years of lies and doping scandals.

There is no evidence to suggest doping or reason to suspect wrongdoing by Tyson Gay, who won a spectacular wind-aided 9.68-second 100-meter victory at the US Olympic Track and Field Trials and starts chasing a 200 berth Friday.

There is nothing that hints at Jamaican stars Usain Bolt and Asafa Powell being dope cheats. Bolt set the 100 world record of 9.72 on May 31 in New York, breaking Powell's old mark of 9.74.

Bolt, Gay and Powell are set for an epic Olympic showdown next month in Beijing.

But it's hard for people not to be cynical about athletics after doping scandals from such stars as Marion Jones, Tim Montgomery and Justin Gatlin, some of them caught or confessing ...