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Ben Johnson, the Canadian sprinter stripped of a 1988 Olympic gold medal for doping, is continuing to make headlines on his new anti-doping crusade. The latest came Thursday, when he made comments about his 1980s rival, American Carl Lewis.
Frederick Carlton Lewis OLY (born July 1, 1961) is a former American track and field athlete who won nine Olympic gold medals, one Olympic silver medal, and 10 World Championships medals, including eight gold. His career spanned from 1979 to 1996, when he last won the Olympic long jump.
Lewis goes through drug testing, and after his samples are checked three times, the executive director of the United States Olympic Committee (USOC) finds three kinds of stimulants in Lewis ...
Ormsby says he quickly became a lightning rod for cheating in athletics, but he was far from the only one doing it. His archrival, the American Carl Lewis, who placed second in that 100-meter race, had failed three doping tests the summer before the Seoul Olympics, a fact kept secret for over a decade. “Carl Lewis was an enormous star,” she ...
Lewis tested positive at the Olympic Trials for pseudoephedrine, ephedrine and phenylpropanolamine but avoided a ban after the US Olympic Committee accepted his explanation that he must have ...
He rose to be Canada’s best sprinter and began to challenge Lewis, with whom he enjoyed a cantankerous rivalry. But for Johnson it was clear that he was not the only sprinter who was doping.
On this day in 1988, Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson won the 100m final at the Seoul Olympics. Three days later he tested positive to a banned performance-enhancing drug and was disqualified.
