Ben Johnson Highlights 

You are correct about the two foot start. I believe a couple others used that technique also. A Track Technique newsletter I read in 1971 said that German 100 meter Olympic champion Armin Hary pioneered the technique.

If you also remember correctly Johnson was drugged to the gills. That's why he took off so fast.

You must be out of your mind,,, and nothing you say should be taken serious,,,

​@@sinsin1697He is right

@Moi Moi I had a French Canadian girlfriend visited in Quebec in 1990 they only care about hockey. Ben Johnson should of run for USA he would have statues and metals now.

Say no to drugs

LOL, we're suppose to apologize for him cheating?!🤣🤣🤣🤣

Didn't realize that. When I was about 15 years old, I saw him hanging out in front of my building at Markham and Ellsemere in Scarborough wearing a head-to-toe yellow cotton tracksuit and he was carrying a massive rottweiler. He was alone and didn't interact with my friend and I. It was strange actually--he just stood there staring as if he were a deer in headlights. He would not say hello back to us. When we made our way back later he was in the landlord's office in the lobby of the neighboring building speaking with him.

@@eds464 No, I think you missed the point. Cheating is cheating. If everyone else is cheating, fine, but that's NOT an excuse to also cheat

Exactly

damn right. beautifully stated

Well said👍

Right on! Elton John's song about Ben Johnson. Rocket Man!!!! 🏃‍♂⚡⚡

Johnson will be remembered as a cheat and rightly so. He should have been banned from day one. Without drugs he would have been average.

You have to remember Ben Johnson was a doper

@@alanrobinson7891 _ so was everyone else in these fields. Just that some were better than others.

@@gh4121-b5n well its alleged they were. Without evidence they were then it's just accusations

G H has left the chat due to lack of evidence and embarrassment

no @G H doesn't need to get into the argument...we know that doping programmes were just part and parcel of training...johnson was the best and would have won anyway.

And he gets all the accolades, fame and attention, hence this

Carl who?

@@отпирайте he take drugs developed for him to cheat all the drug tests

Yeah cos they are gonna apologise to someone caught cheating

Even if he hypotethically say that he was the only one who took PED’s (not true), he was still the fastest man back then by a LONG shot

yeah mate, i agree

He was cheating to the extreme he wouldnt run that fast if he hadnt 10 tonnes of steroids in his body

So true👍

Probably a 9.61 man in todays era.

Wouldn't you consider the best period the fastest ever time?

@@garethhancock8525 makes sence.

@@garethhancock8525 That's my point, he was way ahead of his time, his record stood for a very long time.

@@patricksweeney5308 He's great but they were all juiced, just like Michael Johnson slowing down intentionally in his last race to avoid attracting unwanted attention.

@@spendingtimetogether8428 how long did his record stand?

Possible, but he said he couldve beaten Usain Bolt .. 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔

Absolutely right👍👍

That's the effects of using PED's

Think you have not heard about the great BOLT

@@jamesali76 no one saying Bolt was not great were saying Ben Johnson is the pioneer of greatest, Bolt could could never be the legend of legends which Ben Johnson triumph beyond Bolt could ever capture the soul of greatness..

@shane yes, the man accused of spiking his drink has never denied it. when he was asked about it he said "maybe i did, maybe i didnt, but that was a long time ago" or something to that effect. he basically admitted it but doesnt want to be charged with a crime

@@Captain_Rhodes andre jackson right? that’s probably the best way to say it while avoiding repercussions.

@@отпирайте yea i think thats his name. Also most of the others were taking PEDs. Carl lewis failed tests but was given a pass. All the while he was accusing ben of taking them!

@@Captain_Rhodes I was heartbroken when Ben tested positive. I still remember where I was when it happened. I was praying they would find whoever "spiked" his drink. But then the reality sunk in that he had done drugs and there wasn't anyone who spiked anything. I never hated Ben for taking drugs. The 80's were filthy with drug users. He was a spectacular runner, probably the greatest start we've ever seen. PS. I saw him training at York University in the mid 90's. He was still in great shape. He talked to me for a minute and gave me an autograph. Something I'll never forget.

@@thomasmckenzie4584 from what I understand he did take PEDs but the drink story is actually true. The athlete accused of doing it has never denied it and all but admitted it.

Christian coleman is also a fantastic starter I’d say

Coleman is the best starter

@@orientationkamp Yeah sorry I watched three videos and he was an explosive runner, but I’d say Ben has him still out of the blocks.

ANYONE? No one who didn't take steroids lmfao

@@arsenioseslpodcast3143 As I said, nobody had a better start out of the blocks than Ben.

Fastest reaction time of all time

12

His fastest Time was a 9.79

Not necessarily, just a winner's mentality

Only because he was disqualified from competing against human in a formal contest due to his consistency of cheating

Tim N according to his coach he started to use peds as early as 1981, so he probably just peaked. But contrary to a popular saying, no, ben didnt come out of nowhere

@@отпирайте dude i know my athletics. Ben was an also ran in canada for a long time in the 10.4s. He may have been using PEDs then because testing was poor. Whatever he was using it wasnt dbol..probably s'zol as its quick to clear and pretty mild in terms of speed gains. they call it one of the more 'honest' steroids as it also has few or mild sides. when he went to a cocktail of stanozolol and anapolan that was a huge mistake. rumour was he also aqueous test. Anapolan/Anadrol is really easy to detect, even in the 80s. If you take it within 4 weeks of an event it'll show traces. Ben apparently took it on the day, and had been for a while. That stuff makes you a gorilla. Back in the late 50s and 60s dbol was estimated to take 0.3-0.5s off of your 100m time. that was dbol on its own, and anapolan makes dbol look like a protein drink. Give Usain a year of dbol or adrol with some stanazolol and he'd running a 9.1. Similarly if you give the entire 100m field the drugs they had in the 60s and 70s, and the time for a 100m medallist would be a 9.5.

@@timn4481 show me a source of those certain substances shaving off certain amount of time off. It all really depends really on how you really take advantage of it, how you train with the extra capacity added by the substance, the immediate gains in speed itself are very minimal. So the only athletes that use peds that get caught LOL. Even for ben it took 7 years go get caught.

He won olympic medals in 84 as well mind so more than just an average sprinter at the time, think he did 10 flat in 85 then 9.95 I think in 86 which was fastest at sea level at the time too and just .02 off Calvin's wr

He had been taking Test and Winny since 1981.

I mean thats how they all do it, they take peds in the training phase and come to competitions clean with all of the peds cleared out of the system

@Sto So he injured his hamstring not long before the race, so he most likely didnt let enough time pass between the last dose and test. There’s also the theory that his drink was tainted. Ben had been using since 1981 and that was his first positive.

@Sto So www.thestar.com/news/canada/2019/01/13/secret-1988-olympic-report-goes-behind-the-scenes-of-ben-johnsons-drug-test-hearing.html

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И не поспоришь, 99% проф спринтеров и 100% чемпионов и рекордсменов использовали и используют допинг в не меньших количествах.К тому же сейчас допинг более качественный чем во времена Бена,а обгоняют его единицы в наше время,и то Бен так и не смог достичь своего возможно пика;(

@@Eyeshield-bx3cq Большой Бен - один из героев моей туманной юности, другим героем был Мирус Ифтер... Они были такие разные, один бегал 100 м., другой - 5000 и 10000 м... Хорошо их помню... С такими ребятами мы встречаемся в детстве, чтобы потом они всегда были вместе с нами, даже если кто-то уже ушел... Здоровья Бену и царствие небесное Мирусу...

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Shut up

Carl Lewis was on steroids too, he should have never been given Johnson's medal. USADA are an army of hypocrites, allowing a man who failed 3 drug tests to compete.

I would say so except lance didnt get caught during his career

@@отпирайте also Ben didn't boast his ability

@@elijahebbert6884 came in, did his thing, and left

@@отпирайте he never got caught ,,,, Lance Armstrong failed four drug test ...www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-04-17/armstrong-tested-positive-for-steroids-four-times-in-1999-tour

Ben Johnson never counseled others to take drugs.

But youre still here ya dummy.

rosrebel nah he’s doing coaching in canada right now

And who are you?

Us.

you

Carl Lewis cheater

He wasn't the only one!!! He just got caught.

It was a norm back then for all the athletes in all sports around the world

Twilight living not to mention usa ”losing” their 1984 olympcs drug test results

@Twilight living lewis was tested positive at us trials but USA decided to cover it up, Christie never admitted to anything of the such, he was found initially positive at the Olympics but was proven to be something not classed as a banned substance so reinstated straight away. 2 yrs after Christie retired in 99 he ran a charity bet race with some mates and was found to be part of that dodgy scam where lots of athletes were suddenly bein found guilty of drugs yet it wasnt very clear cut so most were let off (well the Americans were) where as the UK much stricter and never liked him anyway so threw him under the bus even tho he was retired and never actually competing anyway 🤷‍♂️

everyone did , he got caught.

@William Diemhert, Ben Johnson just got caught in a sea of fish, Years later: Hulk hogan (WWE) Barry Bonds & Jose Canseco(Baseball) all those stars where caught doing steroids and many more and those, who you haven't heard about, they just covered it well. Roid or not Ben Johnson was just a sacrifice at that time and ran among other cheats too, who just didn't get caught!

Fuck that shit.

Carl Lewis is.

If you believe that, you're very naive.