Search results
Aug 30, 2013 · Johnson has been the poster boy for doping ever since, although he believes he should be sharing top billing. Of the eight athletes who competed in that 100m final in Seoul, six have...
May 4, 2024 · In the face of the doping allegations, Johnson faced a "very racist backlash" that painted him as an ungrateful immigrant from Jamaica who should return to his birth country.
Sep 14, 2013 · Today Ben Johnson seems a little confused over how beneficial the drugs were, and maintains he would still have won the 1998 Olympic 100 metres gold medal if he hadn’t been doping. Photograph...
- Ian O'riordan
Apr 25, 2024 · After winning the 100-metre final at the 1988 Seoul Olympics, now remembered as “the dirtiest race in history,” Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson failed his drug test and was stripped of his gold...
- Mary Ormsby
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.
Sep 24, 2015 · Ben Johnson's 100m dash victory and subsequent steroid bust at the 1988 Summer Games was a watershed moment for anti-doping activists, but to what end?
Sep 5, 2013 · Ben Johnson wants to present himself as a cautionary tale, a living lesson about the perils of doping, and a truth-teller in a world where he said cover-ups were as common as cleats.
