Bolt: I've won everything clean

Usain Boilt has admitted that he can enjoy the huge success he has enjoyed during a stunningly successful career because he 'knows he has done it clean'.

In a wide-ranging interview with The Guardian newspaper where the Jamaican discussed many aspects of his career and a wide range of topics, Bolt was asked about the booing of twice-convicted doper Justin Gatlin at the Rio Olympics and about the wave of his compatriots who had failed drugs tests.

The 30-year-old, who completed a triple treble of Olympic gold medals in Rio, believes that Gatlin's comments that he was able to 'shrug off' the boos were untrue and he also provided a hard stance on the subject of doping.

“I was really shocked [by the booing]," he said. "In all the years I’ve been doing track, I’ve never seen somebody get booed at a championship

“A little bit [felt sympathy for Gatlin]. But then, after all the talking that was going on all season, not that much.

“You can’t shrug that off.

"It’s a tough question [if dopers should receive life bans]. But if you genuinely go out of your way to cheat, and you know you’re cheating, I think, yes, you should be banned for good. You’re robbing other people of their hard work, and their stress, and their sacrifice that they’ve put out to be the best.

"If you go out of your way to try to cheat people, when you get caught, all the glory, the fun, the sponsorship you could have gotten, it’s already gone. So I feel like you should be banned for life.

“I really don’t let things like that bother me [ doping accusation]. It’s because, over the years, you know that’s going to happen. That’s what they’re going to ask. I’m going to enjoy this, no matter.

"When you work so hard for what you have done, and it finally comes, it should feel good. I’m not going to let somebody else rob me of that moment. I feel good because I know I’ve done it clean.”

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