December 5, 2006

1988 Olympics: Steroid Scandal Revisited

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Did the svelte Svengali Carl Lewis give the order for sprinter Ben Johnson’s steroid spiked beer? Now, 18 years later, Ben Johnson strongly, yet ambiguously, hints yes!

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  1. Cindy Scroggins on December 5th, 2006 at 9:21 am

    I vividly remember watching the 1987 Rome World Championships on television. I’d never seen anything so amazing as Ben Johnson’s running of that 100 meters. The world later realized that he must have been on steroids at the time. I remain conflicted over the whole thing. Johnson’s running of that race was a thing of great beauty. Does the beauty disappear because it wasn’t “natural”?

  2. Deron Bauman on December 5th, 2006 at 11:32 am

    well said, Cindy. to a slightly different point, steroids have been banned in baseball and football for various amounts of time, but hgh hasn’t, because there is not test for it, and neither organization keeps samples to test against in the future.

    I wonder if professional athletes are using steriods or hgh?


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