1. Surnatural physical
We ask the question of the origine of a muscular sudden development. Indeed 4 years ago, the swimmer was a wire, and don't make the national minimas. Altought, today he's the best on 100 meters.
This dopping rumour had begun to an italian swimmer, Filipo Magnini ( on the top picture).
He's accused him of changing morphology and perfomrance very quickly.
- 2001 : 53 s 31
- 2002 : 52 s 07
- 2003 : 50 s 97
- 2004 : 50 s 43
- 2005 : 49 s 94
- 2006 : 49 s 22
- 2007 : 48 s 12 (French record)
- 2008 : 47 s 60
- 2008 : 47 s 50
- 2008 : 47 s 20 (European Record)
This point of view is a only a suspicion and nothing was scientifically proved.
In the next part, we will try to argue the cause of a sportsman who trains and doesn't take drugs.
2. Training is factor of success
A sportsman who hard train, can increase his muscular mass and his performances. The work of a high-level sportsman is very intense. Acoording to Alain Bernard, the last three years were hard. He was only trains and his performance have to increase gradualy .
Swimming is a very requiring discipline. Training consists in a lot of musculation and jogging to increase his muscular mass, and by numerous length in the swimming-pool to work the technique.
We can think to the honesty of the swimmer. His delay of growth would be to be put at the expense of the wounds which filled his career, and his morphology. His weight increased by 18 kilos in 3 years thanks to his hard training. So the training of a sportsman can be an argument against rumour of dopage.
The sporstman apparance can deceive us but it can also reflect the reality. This leads us to wonder about this issue. Actually the two arguments can be defended. All that is only a source of questioning because nothing was proved.
