A conspiracy against Ben Johnson exposed!
I love this story. It seems to make the rounds each time Ben Johnson gives a candid interview about his Carl Lewis conspiracy theories.
Ben Johnson says that Carl Lewis set him up! He had a beer before the tests and an American football player slipped some 'roids in it like roofies.
OK, honestly, I only put this here in order to once again show my favourite video of all-time. The great Ben Johnson running the fastest 100m time in the world at the time:
LOOK AT THAT LEAD!!! LOOK AT THE GOLD NECKLACE!!!
How embarassing is it that Carl Lewis got one of his famed gold medals in such a blowout loss. This has to be the finest example of second-place-as-first-loser.
Of course, Johnson's time of 9.79 seconds was disqualified, as was his previous record of 9.83 set a year earlier in Rome.
His 9.79 wasn't tied legally or illegally until Maurice Greene ran the same time eleven years later in 1999, followed by Tim Montgomery with 9.78 in 2002, and then Asafa Powell and Justin Gatlin who've run a total of four races at a speed of 9.77 in the last two years.
To Johnson's credit, two of the four people who've tied or broken his time have been disqualified for doping as well (Montgomery and Gatlin), so the Jamaican Asafa Powell is the only person to actually top him on record, which he's done three times now.
Run, Ben, Run. In my opinion, only Barry Bonds is/was a finer doped-up athlete.
Ben Johnson says that Carl Lewis set him up! He had a beer before the tests and an American football player slipped some 'roids in it like roofies.
OK, honestly, I only put this here in order to once again show my favourite video of all-time. The great Ben Johnson running the fastest 100m time in the world at the time:
LOOK AT THAT LEAD!!! LOOK AT THE GOLD NECKLACE!!!
How embarassing is it that Carl Lewis got one of his famed gold medals in such a blowout loss. This has to be the finest example of second-place-as-first-loser.
Of course, Johnson's time of 9.79 seconds was disqualified, as was his previous record of 9.83 set a year earlier in Rome.
His 9.79 wasn't tied legally or illegally until Maurice Greene ran the same time eleven years later in 1999, followed by Tim Montgomery with 9.78 in 2002, and then Asafa Powell and Justin Gatlin who've run a total of four races at a speed of 9.77 in the last two years.
To Johnson's credit, two of the four people who've tied or broken his time have been disqualified for doping as well (Montgomery and Gatlin), so the Jamaican Asafa Powell is the only person to actually top him on record, which he's done three times now.
Run, Ben, Run. In my opinion, only Barry Bonds is/was a finer doped-up athlete.
posted by Timothy Holden at
5:43 AM
7 Comments:
Thinking about Olympic athletes reminds me of that Weezer "we are all on drugs" song, 'cause nobody plays clean anymore.
Anyway, I totally believe they were out to get Ben Johnson, 'cause Americans really, really, really hate it when they don't have the world's fastest sprinter.
Look at how, all of a sudden, they decided the 200m race was the most important event when Bailey was blowing everybody away in the 100m. (You should try and find the Bailey/Johnson race and post it, I love that one as well). However, by the time Greene and Gatlin came around, they were back to saying the 100m is the big one.
Americans are the world's poorest sports, they gloat excessively in victory, and whine and cry louder than anyone in defeat.
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D-String, at 6:41 AM
I bet you have some stinging insights about George W. Bush as well.
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Anonymous, at 8:28 AM
Another Boo Hoo Canadian I see
Sounds like when you stopped sending hockey teams to the Olympics because what Russia and the Czech's were doing was SO UNFAIR, You QUIT, and AMERICA beat them in 1980, forever stealing the greatest hockey moment ever from Paul Henderson
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Anonymous, at 8:48 AM
yeah, don't prove my point for me, that would just be silly on your part.
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D-String, at 9:25 AM
The wit and wisdom of a forklift driver calling into the FAN590.
I'm glad to see that you're putting that journalism degree to good use.
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Anonymous, at 10:36 AM
Donnie,
I'm going to try and find the Johnson-Bailey race and post it.
-- Tim
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Timothy Holden, at 3:57 PM
Oh, and for Mr. D-String and Mr. Anonymous, whoever you are living in Aurora, trying to hide your name so that a future employer can't find it on the web, WORK HARDER AT YOUR RESPECTIVE JOBS AND STOP POSTING SNIPPY COMMENTS ON MY WEBPAGE.
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Timothy Holden, at 6:02 PM
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