I would like to bring to your readers' attention the following.

In your article of July 25, titled 'Bolt blows them away', Bolt is quoted on the question of drug testing as saying:

"For me, it doesn't matter because I will be going out there, day after day, doing my best. I get tested all the time. It shows that people get tested and they get caught if they are on drugs," a statement that shows his confidence in our drug testing and that implies the cleanliness of our athletes who are not found to be transgressing the rules.

In an article from the British newspaper, The Telegraph, July 24, dealing with the same subject, but calculated to besmirch the reputation of Jamaican drug testing and Jamaican athletes, and in which Carl Lewis' mean comments are extensively quoted again, Bolt's quoted words are reduced to the phrase: "he was 'tested all the time'". Then this newspaper, consonant with its intention to malign us, attributes to Bolt, the statement that "there was room for improvement in Jamaican drug testing".

The moral: be wary of the imperialist tricksters and their propensity to carry us down, whether it be in the matter of sport or as with the International Monetary Fund. In this latter regard, the book, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, by John Perkins, merits close reading.

I am, etc.,

KEITH ELLIS

zellis@yorku.ca

Mississauga

Ontario