Glad you raised the issue of braces because it always seemed like a glaringly obvious indication when most of the Santa Monica Track Club team had braces during the late 80's early 90's. And Yes, how is it that only Ben Johnson was busted during the same era as King Carl, Leroy, Linford, Flojo, Heike Dreschler and a slew of others?Apparently there were 3 main reasons why Ben went down: 1. Steroid use -- apparently HGH was more expensive and harder to detect at the time; 2. Ben had pissed off a number of important people by his arrogance and bravado because he would show up at meets with a huge entourage and demand that they too had to be entered if they wanted him to race. 3. Ben's camp made the mistake of not sending the bag man with the appropriate bribe at the right time (he got to big for his britches).
Pacifico wrote:
[quote]Well., wrote:
The way his career panned out, to me suggests he was doping.
The way he ran races, the relentlessness of fast times week in week out, his almost total lack of illness or injury throughout his career, the braces, the lack of 800m races, the incredulous stories of training runs, the fact most of his training partners and fellow Moroccan athletes were busted, .