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	CBC Sports: Johnson 15 years later: 'I am the best sprinter of all time'
		Johnson 15 years later: 'I am the best sprinter of all time'
		Ben Johnson, right, had his gold medal stripped at the 1988 Seoul Olympics.
		CBC Sports: Johnson 15 years later: 'I am the best sprinter of all time'
	www.cbc.ca /pcgi-bin/templates/sportsView.cgi?/news/2003/09/24/Sports/johnson-track030924

	CNN/SI - Athletics - Ben Johnson says recent scandals prove drug problem is widespread - Tuesday August 04, 1998 10:57 AM
		Johnson said the widespread use of drugs in cycling, which was exposed during the Tour de France, and the recent positive tests of American sprinter Dennis Mitchell and Olympic shot-put champion Randy Barnes support his claim.
		Johnson, who was banned for life after a second positive test in 1993, says athletes in all sports use performance-enhancing drugs and that there has never been a level playing field.
		Johnson said he was the victim of a conspiracy to show the sport was serious about cleaning itself up.
	sportsillustrated.cnn.com /athletics/news/1998/08/04/johnson_badguy

	BBC ON THIS DAY 27 1988: Johnson stripped of Olympic gold
		Sprinter Ben Johnson has been sent home from the Seoul Olympic Games in disgrace.
		Ben Johnson was banned from competing for two years and stripped of all the other world records and medals he held.
		Samples of Johnson's urine were tested for drugs immediately after the 100m final three days ago which he won in a world record time of 9.79 seconds.
	news.bbc.co.uk /onthisday/hi/dates/stories/september/27/newsid_2539000/2539525.stm (423 words)

	Telegraph Sport `Yes, Ben Johnson could have been innocent'
		When Ben Johnson was done for stanozolol, everyone in athletics said `no, this is not possible'.
		Johnson admitted to taking steroids in the past but said he could not account for it on that particular day in Seoul in 1988.
		As Ato Boldon, a long time critic of drug cheats, becomes the latest Olympic sprinter to be tested positive for a banned substance, what and who can we believe?
	portal.telegraph.co.uk /sport/main.jhtml?xml=/sport/2001/09/16/sophil17.xml (1467 words)

	Ben Johnson: Canada's shame - Going for Dope: Canada and Drugs in Sport - CBC Archives
		The nationwide party sparked by Ben Johnson's gold-medal triumph at the Seoul Olympics ends abruptly three days later, when the International Olympic Committee reveals the sprinter has tested positive for the banned anabolic steroid stanozolol.
		• Another theory holds that Johnson was using stanozolol, but misjudged the drug's "clearance time" &; the amount of time it takes for a drug to clear the athlete's system and not show up on a drug test.
		Doping officials said they believed Johnson's steroid profile was not consistent with ingestion of stanozolol after the race.
	archives.cbc.ca /IDC-1-41-1409-8966/sports/drugs_sport/clip5 (654 words)

	Johnson, Ben -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
		In the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul, South Korea, Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson accelerated out of the blocks in the 100-meter track event and ran into history 9.79 seconds later to capture the gold medal.
		Johnson used perseverance and desire to overcome his lack of height to excel in the NBA.
		United States track athlete and winner of four Olympic gold medals, Florence Griffith Joyner was often called “the fastest woman alive” for setting world records in the 100- and 200-meter sprints at the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul, South Korea.
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9311887 (624 words)

	ESPN.com: OLY - Francis: Advising Johnson to take steroids was wrong
		Francis helped Johnson become the fastest man in the world, but the sprinter was later stripped of his 1988 Olympic gold medal and world record in the 100 meters after testing positive for the banned steroid Stanozolol.
		TORONTO -- Charlie Francis has admitted for the first time that he was wrong to advise Ben Johnson to take steroids 15 years after one of the worst scandals in Olympic history.
		His comments reverse the position he had held since 1989, when Francis told the Dubin inquiry into drugs in sport that Johnson and other Canadian track athletes needed performance-enhancing drugs to compete with rival athletes who were doing the same.
	espn.go.com /oly/news/2003/0205/1504196.html (349 words)

	Learn more about 1993 in the online encyclopedia.
		March 5 - Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson is banned from international competition for life after testing positive for banned substances for the second time.
		February 28 - Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms agents raid the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas with a warrant to arrest cult leader David Koresh on federal firearms violations.
		April 1 - Defending NASCAR Winston Cup champion Alan Kulwicki is killed in a plane crash while on his way to a race in Bristol, Tennessee.
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /1/19/1993.html (349 words)

	johnson ben
		Sprinter Ben Johnson began a successful career in track and field in 1980 and went on to set several world records.
		Johnson, Ben (born 1961), Canadian track star, born in Falmouth, Jamaica; to Canada 1976; performed indifferently in track until 1977–78 spurt in height and …
		Ben Johnson, a four-time national sprint champ and former world record-holder in the 1930s, died recently in Harrisburg, Pa., of a heart attack.
	www.all-boro.com /johnson-ben.html (457 words)

	Jones to leave Francis for Nike's sake
		"These promoters have lived through and suffered from the black eye that Francis inflicted on athletics with his role in the Ben Johnson scandal, which the sport has still not recovered from 15 years later," said the former sprinter.
		Marion Jones is to announce this week that she is no longer working with Ben Johnson's former coach Charlie Francis after coming under severe pressure to cut her ties with him from her biggest sponsor, Nike.
		Nike is worried that by working with Francis, who admitted under oath in 1989 encouraging Johnson and other athletes he coached to use steroids throughout their careers, Jones's reputation will be tarnished beyond repair.
	www.buzzle.com /editorials/2-5-2003-34950.asp (457 words)

	Surin gearing up for Sydney
		Surin emerged as an elite sprinter shortly after the Ben Johnson scandal in 1988.
		In hindsight, Surin moved out of Ben Johnson's shadow and right into another: Donovan Bailey's.
		Surin did, however, bounce back to run a tremendous third leg in the one-lap relay as Canada drilled the United States on their home turf, and narrowly missed the world record of 37.40 seconds.
	www.canoe.ca /2000GamesAthleticsArchive/jul12_sur.html (570 words)

	ESPN.com - World record-holder mum on ties to Francis
		The invitation was contingent on Montgomery coming to England this week for a news conference to address his association with Francis, the former coach of disgraced Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson.
		He was Johnson's coach when the runner tested positive for steroids and was stripped of his 100-meter gold medal at the 1988 Seoul Olympics.
		LONDON -- Promoters withdrew an invitation to Tim Montgomery to compete in a British meet because the sprinter refused to hold a news conference explaining his ties to coach Charlie Francis.
	sports.espn.go.com /espn/print?id=1506804&type=news (570 words)

	USATODAY.com - Jones halts association with controversial coach
		The misgivings stemmed from his notoriety as the coach banned for life in Canada for helping to provide Ben Johnson steroids for eight years until the Canadian sprinter was stripped of his 1988 Olympic gold medal in the 100 meters after a positive steroid test.
		In the past week, Francis issued statements and interviews, saying he was wrong in encouraging Johnson to use performance drugs and that Jones and Montgomery proved him wrong about saying non-doped athletes couldn't win at the elite level.
		Francis thought the best time to announce the arrangement was in December, backed by an endorsement of Francis' return to the sport by the judge who headed the 1989 Canadian inquiry into the Johnson case.
	www.usatoday.com /sports/olympics/summer/2003-02-06-jones-coach_x.htm (570 words)

	CBC.CA - IAAF World Track and Field Championships
		But Ben Johnson’s world record was eliminated, and his gold medal stripped, after the sprinter admitted -- in the wake of his disgrace in the 1988 Seoul Olympics -- to taking drugs at the time of the championships.
		The performance of the championships came from Michael Johnson, who not only set a world record in capturing his fourth title in the 400m, but captured his unprecedented eighth gold medal at the championships.
		Johnson won the 200m by the biggest margin at any championship since the legendary Jesse Owens at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
	www.cbc.ca /sports/iaaf/history (1252 words)

	CBC.CA - IAAF World Track and Field Championships
		But Ben Johnson’s world record was eliminated, and his gold medal stripped, after the sprinter admitted -- in the wake of his disgrace in the 1988 Seoul Olympics -- to taking drugs at the time of the championships.
		The performance of the championships came from Michael Johnson, who not only set a world record in capturing his fourth title in the 400m, but captured his unprecedented eighth gold medal at the championships.
		Johnson won the 200m by the biggest margin at any championship since the legendary Jesse Owens at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
	www.cbc.ca /sports/iaaf/history (1252 words)

	CBC.CA - IAAF World Track and Field Championships
		But Ben Johnson’s world record was eliminated, and his gold medal stripped, after the sprinter admitted -- in the wake of his disgrace in the 1988 Seoul Olympics -- to taking drugs at the time of the championships.
		The performance of the championships came from Michael Johnson, who not only set a world record in capturing his fourth title in the 400m, but captured his unprecedented eighth gold medal at the championships.
		Johnson won the 200m by the biggest margin at any championship since the legendary Jesse Owens at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
	www.cbc.ca /sports/iaaf/history (1252 words)

	Olympics - Carl Lewis
		Lewis, 27, became the recipient of the 1988 gold medal when Ben Johnson, the Canadian athlete who finished first in the 100-meter sprint event, tested positive for steroids, a banned substance for Olympic athletes.
		Because of Johnson's expulsion from the Olympic Games, Lewis became the first sprinter in history to successfully defend a 100-meter Olympic victory, just as he became the first long jumper to win two Olympic gold medals in a row.
		Lewis said that after the 1988 100-meter event, when he placed second after Johnson, "I was satisfied because I'd given my best effort.
	www.forerunner.com /forerunner/X0760_OlympicsCarl_Lewis.html (673 words)

	ESPN.com - MLB - Report: Palmeiro test turned up potent steroid
		The New York Times, citing a person in baseball with direct knowledge of the sport's drug-testing program, reported on its Web site Tuesday that Palmeiro tested positive for the drug known by the brand name Winstrol, most notably linked to the Olympic sprinter Ben Johnson of Canada.
		Johnson was stripped of his 100-meter gold medal in 1988 after testing positive for stanozolol.
		NEW YORK -- Rafael Palmeiro's positive steroid test was for stanozolol, a powerful anabolic steroid that is not available in dietary supplements, according to a newspaper report.
	sports.espn.go.com /mlb/news/story?id=2123113 (634 words)

	Montreal Gazette - canada.com network
		"I think the whole BALCO thing, to them (Americans) it's a bit like the Ben Johnson affair was for Canada," said Pound, referring to the Toronto sprinter who was stripped of his gold medal for steroid use after winning the 100 metres at the 1988 Seoul Olympics."
		The American sprinter, who failed to win any medals at the Athens Olympics in August, has repeatedly denied using banned drugs.
		Pound, who was in Athens to attend an international conference on doping, has said Jones could be stripped of her Sydney medals if the allegations are true.
	www.canada.com /montreal/montrealgazette/news/sports/story.html?id=96458839-6a29-4338-bb32-f459e3c0734e (634 words)

	BPSports.net - FIRST-PERSON: The politics of sports
		The case I point to is that of Charlie Francis, the professionally exiled sprint coach who isn't allowed to forget his involvement in the Ben Johnson steroid scandal of the 1988 Olympics.
		Francis was Johnson's coach when the Canadian sprinter was stripped of his 100-meter gold medal after it was discovered he'd juiced up.
		Unlike Rose, Francis was not banned from the sport, only from training Canadian athletes.
	www.bpsports.net /bpsports.asp?ID=3801 (634 words)

	INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE - OLYMPIC GAMES
		Although the drug disqualification of sprinter Ben Johnson was the biggest story of the 1988 Olympics, the Seoul Games were highlighted by numerous exceptional performances.
		Johnson was the first well known athlete to be disqualified for using drugs.
		Christa Luding-Rothenburger, who was also a speed skater, earned a silver medal in cycling to become the only person in history to win Winter and Summer medals in the same year.
	www.olympic.org /uk/games/past/index_uk.asp?OLGT=1&OLGY=1988 (634 words)

	CBC.ca - Athens 2004 - History: 2004 Athens
		That pledge was predicated on events that were unfolding in the months leading up to the Games: in the United States, the sporting world's biggest doping scandal since Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson in 1988 was emerging as a front-page story.
		And others competed over the summer under a cloud of suspicion, particularly star sprinter Marion Jones, who was also Montgomery's wife.
		Three years later, Phelps rocked the swimming world at the world championships in Barcelona, breaking five world records on his way to three gold and two silver medals.
	www.cbc.ca /olympics (634 words)

	Northwest Runner
		Sprinter Angella Issajenko testified to the Dubin Inquiry that she often gave Ben Johnson his steroids.
		Who was Johnson’s sprinting coach in the Seoul Olympics?
		ANSWER: she injected them into his buttock [QM: answer must mention both injection and buttock]
	www.nwrunner.com /messageboard/messages/43.html (634 words)

	Calgary Sun Columnist - Licia Corbella: Time to rewrite history
		It's easy to understand why Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson had his 1988 Olympic gold medal taken away from him in Seoul and his world record time of 9.79 seconds removed from all record books since he got caught with banned substances in his urine right after his race.
		The International Amateur Athletics Federation had no problem stripping Issajenko of her 60 metre indoor world record in 1990 after she admitted at the Dubin inquiry, stemming from the Johnson scandal, to having used banned substances.
		So Issajenko, who told the truth under oath was retroactively stripped of her record.
	www.canoe.ca /NewsStand/Columnists/Calgary/Licia_Corbella/2004/07/11/535178.html (634 words)

	Track and Field
		Before his disgrace in the drug scandal at the Seoul Olympics, Johnson was the premier sprinter in the world, setting the record in the 100 m and winning the world championship in 1987, as well as breaking 2 world indoor records in the 60 m (6.41 sec) and the 50 m (5.55 sec).
		Canadian track and field suffered a devastating blow when Ben Johnson tested positive for steroids after winning the 100 m gold medal at the 1988 Seoul Olympics, overshadowing Dave Steen's accomplishment in taking the bronze medal in the prestigious decathlon later in the Games.
		Angella ISSAJENKO holds the women's world indoor record for the 50 m dash (6.06 sec).
	thecanadianencyclopedia.com /PrinterFriendly.cfm?Params=A1ARTA0008078 (634 words)

	History in English - 19th September + 10 Days
		Event: 26/9/1988: The Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson was stripped of his gold medal for drug taking
		Birthday: 21/9/1756: John McAdam, Scottish road engineer after whom Tarmac is named
		Event: 28/9/1978: Pope John Paul I died, after only being pope for 33 days
	www.nonstopenglish.com /Reading/History_in_english/19_9.html (634 words)

	Queen Street: Thematic Preview
		Our media often speak of Jamaica as an "Island of Crime," and "volatile young Jamaican males" altering Toronto's "criminal landscape." Winning Olympic gold as the world's fastest man in 1988, sprinter Ben Johnson was hailed as Canadian; stripped of it by a drug charge, he became Jamaican Canadian.
		Canadians, too, can be overcautious in defence (by proxy) of others' presumed sensibilities.
		But Canadians can be more wary of reactions, suspected hair-trigger, in that more sensitive realm known as race.
	www.rbebout.com /queen/2pworld.htm (634 words)

	1988 in Canada - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		September 26 - Sprinter Ben Johnson is stripped of his Olympic gold medal and world record when he tests positive for steroids.
		November 21 - In the federal election, Brian Mulroney's Progressive Conservative Party wins a second majority government in an election fought over the Canada-US Free Trade Agreement.
		September 22 - Prime Minister Brian Mulroney officially apologizes for the WWII internment of Japanese Canadians
	www.hackettstown.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/1988_in_Canada (478 words)

	ipedia.com: List of Canadian sports personalities Article
		Ben Johnson, (born 1961), sprinter, disqualified from Olympic gold medal for doping
		List of Canadian sports personalities Article - ipedia.com
		See also: List of retired NHL players, List of current NHL players
	www.ipedia.com /list_of_canadian_sports_personalities.html (662 words)

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