'Rules are rules': Bolt on Richardson cannabis ban

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"Hopefully she can learn from this and just push on," Bolt told Reuters when asked about the American's failed test for the banned substance, which cost her a spot on the U.S. team for the Olympics in Tokyo."I know she has gone through a lot, you understand, but I hope she can refocus and just push on and do her best because she looks like a really talented athlete," he added.Bolt, however, said athletes needed to compete within the rules."I've always explained to people that the rules are the rules. I've been saying this throughout my years, when it comes to drugs, I have nothing to say, but the rules are the rules. If they say you should do this and this is the rule, that is the rule," said the Jamaican, who also won 11 world championship gold medals.

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