Bolt, who races at the London Anniversary Games, said: "I'm clean.
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“I have broken every record there is to break in every event I have ever done”Usain Bolt
"But you have to be very careful as an athlete because right now there are a lot of things on the banned list."
The Jamaican added: "You have to keep up to date with
this kind of thing. It's kind of hard, but that's why you have a team to
make sure.
"I get tested all the while. I got tested the day before yesterday. It's just part of the routine. "
The 26-year-old 100m and 200m world record-holder pointed to his success as a junior athlete as evidence of his innocence.
"If you were following me since 2002, you would know
that I've been doing phenomenal things since I was 15 years old," he
said.
"I was the youngest person to win the world juniors at
15. I ran the world junior record in 19.93 at the age of 18. World youth
record at 17.
"I have broken every record there is to break in every event I have ever done. I have shown I was always going to be great."
After Powell tested positive for the banned stimulant
oxilofrine at the national trials last month, Bolt sent him a text
message.
"I didn't want to bombard him with questions," said Bolt, who will run the 100m and 4x100m at the London Anniversary Games.
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"I told him, 'Sorry to hear what was going on.' And he said, 'Yes, it's kind of rough, it's hard."'
With Gay and Powell still waiting for the results of
their 'B' samples, Bolt was keen to avoid speculation when he spoke to
the media in London on Thursday.
"There are a lot of details left to be discussed," he said.
The recent spate of positive drug tests has put the
focus back on a sport that has been dogged by doping scandals in the
past.
"It's going to set athletics back a little bit, but as a person I can't really focus on this," added Bolt.
"I still have the World Championships, everyone is stepping up their game, so I have to really focus on that.
"I am just trying to work hard, run fast and hopefully help people forget what has happened and just move on."
Bolt was speaking on the same day a Jamaica football player
tested positive for a banned substance
after a World Cup qualifying match against Honduras.
The Jamaica Football Federation said it was notified by
Fifa that a "member of the Jamaican squad returned an adverse
analytical finding on his urine sample" after the 11 June game.
Bolt became the first athlete to
retain the Olympic 100m and 200m crowns
when he took gold in both events at the 2012 London Olympics last
summer. He then won his third gold of the Games when he anchored
Jamaica's sprint relay team to a
world record.
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