Carl Lewis ESPN atrticle

Covered by corrupt USADA in 1988. He was positive for a stimulant in the trials. Before Seoul.

He was excellent like an athlete, fierce competitor, but doped, like the rest of the field.

Ben L Wrong wrote:

Covered by corrupt USADA in 1988. He was positive for a stimulant in the trials. Before Seoul.

He was excellent like an athlete, fierce competitor, but doped, like the rest of the field.

Then why bother mentioning it? It's likely everyone is doping, and you acknowledge this fact. So it seems fruitless and inconsequential to even mention it.

It's like saying "Carl has two legs and so do his competitors" Why bother wasting time?

You mad bro?

trying to be helpful wrote:

You mad bro?

Nope. And your catch line is about a decade out of date.

Next time you're trying to quip in order to ruffle some feathers, use something a tad more subtle.

Good luck!

BEN MF JOHNSON. THE GOAT.

Hello fella wrote:

Ben L Wrong wrote:

Covered by corrupt USADA in 1988. He was positive for a stimulant in the trials. Before Seoul.

He was excellent like an athlete, fierce competitor, but doped, like the rest of the field.

Then why bother mentioning it? It's likely everyone is doping, and you acknowledge this fact. So it seems fruitless and inconsequential to even mention it.

It's like saying "Carl has two legs and so do his competitors" Why bother wasting time?

Johnson vs Lewis was great.

They truly hated each other

Fans were also polarized on one side or the other

Can't think of anything like that in T&F since.

Also, Carl was hated for Many american athletes. Calvin Smith didn't like Carl, mainly because Carl missed many 4x100 relay camps, and his bragadoccio/diva attitude.

In other lines, what happened with Andre Jackson?

Ben L Wrong wrote:

Also, Carl was hated for Many american athletes. Calvin Smith didn't like Carl, mainly because Carl missed many 4x100 relay camps, and his bragadoccio/diva attitude.

In other lines, what happened with Andre Jackson?

Did you mean Andre Cason?

Kiddiidyyd wrote:

Johnson vs Lewis was great.

They truly hated each other

Fans were also polarized on one side or the other

Can't think of anything like that in T&F since.

+1

A bit like Gatlin vs. Bolt, where also only one of the two is a drug cheat, according to the officials. Most people know better, fortunately.

Carl Lewis- Braces-HGH Doper.

Calvin Smith said in an interview in not so many words that Carl is a doper.

Andre Jackson should not have been in the same room as BJ. This means the rooms was "contaminated". Carl's team then went on TV and said they did what they had to do to get Andre in the Doping Test Area.

Hello fella wrote:

Ben L Wrong wrote:

Also, Carl was hated for Many american athletes. Calvin Smith didn't like Carl, mainly because Carl missed many 4x100 relay camps, and his bragadoccio/diva attitude.

In other lines, what happened with Andre Jackson?

Did you mean Andre Cason?

He entered to the testing room in Seoul. There are pictures. Ben Johnson claimed that Jackson confessed to him that he spiked his beer with stanozolol not only in Seoul, but in other meetings that year.

Years later, Jackson told to the media "maybe I did, maybe I didn't".

You mention it because just because everyone else cheats doesn't make it okay. It takes true character to be different. Pointing out that cheats don't have true character. I don't care how far someone can jump when cheating.

Really the most amazing conspiracy in the history of running. If I recall the documentary "9.79", the Lewis camp more or less admitted to getting Jackson into then doping control room, though not to what he did (if anything) while there. More people should probably care about this though I suppose it was too long ago.