If her times get too fast, if her choppy long jump gains too many inches, then surely the drug rumors will begin in earnest. In this sport, you can't be too good, or you are bad. This is more a reasonable hunch than anything else. There is still no way to test for human-growth hormones without blood samples, and athletes seem to beat the steroid raps whenever they get in their way. The latest to do so was Merlene Ottey, who is back racing after yet another suspension was overturned.
Attorneys have a way of making positive tests go away with the simple threat of lawsuits.
Here in America, we once wrestled famously over our belief in the fashionable institution known as Flo-Jo. Florence Griffith-Joyner was glamorous and mercurial. There were arguments on her side, too. She never tested dirty. Her record might have been illegally wind-aided, also, which actually would speak in her favor on the drug issue.