Legendary Olympian and Gold Medalist Carl Lewis details with Dan Patrick the TRUTH behind the Ben Johnson doping scandal that shook the Olympics world. #trackandfield #olympic #olympics
Could be. There's an interview with Calvin Smith out there where he basically says that Lewis was on drugs during those years too. I think Ben got caught because he had an injury earlier in the season (hamstring?) and threw caution to the wind in deciding to use steroids to recover so close to the olympics. He wanted to win so bad that he just rolled the dice and ended up getting caught.
But HE was DIRTY too!!! Dude is as morally bankrupt as they come! You can hear it in his words defending the use of drugs and saying it was good for the sport because it generated interest. So much HYPOCRISY!!
@@ab2abblank607 Google The Guardian's story on cheating in track & field in the '80s/'90s and read about Carl Lewis and his special "cough syrup" and missed drug tests. They didn't have the tests back then that there are now. Ben Johnson took something he KNEW they could test for. That's how badly he wanted to beat Carl Lewis who acted like he wasn't also taking "supplements."
@@ab2abblank607 we stopped believing in the fairytale that during the cold war, the Sowjet Union doped their athletes to the gills. And the US (all the anti doping agencies are there) won because of their talent and hard work. Gtfoh
Carl Lewis failed three drug tests during the Olympic trials, the same year. He shouldn't have even been in that race with Johnson. Did Dan Patrick bring that up in the interview? I hope so, if not he is gutless.
He was not doing ROIDS like 'Big Ben'!! Carl 'failed' his tests because he was on pain medication, not ROIDS, so you are 'gutless' for not doing your research, HATIN on Lewis!
In 2003, Wade Exum, the United States Olympic Committee's director of drug control administration from 1991 to 2000, gave copies of documents to Sports Illustrated that revealed that some 100 American athletes had failed drug tests from 1988 to 2000, arguing that they should have been prevented from competing in the Olympics but were nevertheless cleared to compete.
Lewis had tested positive at the Olympic Trials for pseudoephedrine, ephedrine and phenylpropanolamine but escaped a ban after the US Olympic Committee accepted his reasoning that the substances must have been consumed inadvertently.
Now you know why Vlaidmir Putin and the Russians call BS when the IOC bans their athletes or their nation from competitions. Is good for the goose but not good for the gander!!! True injustice!
Carl was also doped. Crazy how he can talk like he was a clean athlete. Why was this not pointed out during the interview? Dan you were pretty soft with him and fed the lie and his ego. So much for good reporting.
Carl is great at crafting the story, Ben was wearing the "black" cowboy hat and of course Carl was the saint. The truth is, history has shown everyone in the 1988 100 meter final has a degree of suspicion attached and Carl is not any different.
He tested positive for cold medication at a level that would not have given a positive test today because doctors say it is unlikely to affect performance.
Huh? Are you not fond of "cough syrup?" Everybody loves cough syrup, don't they? LOL! I'll say this much for Carl Lewis - he's always been up his own ass. It's OK if he takes "cough syrup" but everyone else has to be clean.
Wow. I lost serious respect for Dan Patrick here. Always been one of my favourites but he's seriously lacking in integrity to push the narrative that only Ben was dirty. The guy you're interviewing is too, Dan! I expect this from Carl, but I'm disappointed to say the least in how Patrick has chosen to come at this.
Exactly, the entire field that day was pissing hot. Lewis was a poster boy for steroid jaw. He was a black Roger Ramjet. It was only because Johnson wasn't a US athlete that he got hung out to dry n
I remember the look on carl Lewis's face during the race, when he looked at Johnson. It was like what the ..! Johnson was running like a mad man! It was disingenuous for him to speak about Johnson's drug use and not mention his own ban for stimulants.
Carl Lewis was a hypercrite he did the same thing so he no better then Ben Johnson was his problem is he is a sorry loser and disrespected new jersey because that's where he is from not Texas
If its a American than they can do no wrong. That hold field was probably dirty. They were just pissed cause carl got blown away. Carl failed many a test.
The title says the “truth”? He’s still lying about this. It’s truly unbelievable. I remember how arrogant he was at the Olympics watching as a kid. Come clean Carl. 🤡
Ben Johnson said after the race one of Lewis’s people handed him a beer He said the beer was spiked with steroids and that’s why he was caught He admitted to doing steroids but said the stuff he got caught with wasn’t what he was taking
Not the Brazilian runner or Calvin Smith. All the others were caught at some point. Those two runners also never win big races ever after those Olympics
The truth was Dr. Jamie Aspthan who provided the steriods to the Canadian sprinters, and who was handling Johnson before the games, lied to Ben about the injections he was getting from him. So that is why Ben ended up testing positive. They didn't stop the drugs in time to have a clear test at the games. It all came out at the 'Dubin Inquiry".
Years later we found out all the racers in this event including Carl Lewis were drugged. Carl did more drugs then all of them combined. Ben kicked all their asses that day and that year. He was so much better then Carl. Carl cheated. And he acts like he did nothing wrong. Carl also was found years after he had cheated with drugs about 15 times.
Carl Lewis was my hero growing up. To find out all these years later he would become this lying cynical two faced coward is shattering. Carl, drop the ego tell the truth and own up.
Track and Field was like Cycling.... Ben won the race... the fastest doped guy among all the other doped guys... Same with Lance... a legend... doped winner in a field of doped contenders
This is 36 years ago and he's still crying the blues. He was whining back then and still doing it, GET OVER IT! How many athletes back then and how many athletes now are still using band substances? Doesn't make it right, the science of masking is better now than it was 36 years ago. For Ben's one mistake when he was 26 years old, Carl is reminding the world 36 years later. I worked at a gym in NewMarket Ontario Canada where Ben did his strength training after he returned to "normal life" and he was never the same after all the ridicule he took from that one incident. He was stripped of all the medals he won prior. How does the athletic commission know that he was doping prior to the 88 Olympics. The pressure he must have felt to beat Carl must have been immense.
I wanted to talk about how great of an athlete he was and how we all rooted for him so many years etc...but all I can say is how come after so many decades he still dont have one wrinkle and looks so young still !!!!!! Wasn't Carl also doped?
At the end he seems to say that if the sport is completely clean, the times in the 100 would be 11 flat. Pretty well admitting his guilt and the guilt of all the top guys.
yep, so given that Johnson was somehow the ONLY track athlete IN THE WORLD that 'tested positive' at that olympics, there should have just been NO gold medal. Should have been Lewis with a silver, Christie bronze. No gold, cuz they were all dirty, and got their dirty asses kicked. You don't deserve a gold for that imo
The hubris of this man to sit on that stage and say these things is utterly despicable. The binary of Good vs. Bad in a sport where EVERY mofo is on something is insane.
Ben did not want to shake his hand because Carl had either pissed him off for something or said something bad about him before the race. Nonetheless, that was an amazing race.
Carl Lewis was mad that he got smoked in that race he knew he couldn't beat Ben Johnson Ben was so explosive out the blocks and had amazing top end speed Carl was never going to beat Ben Johnson in that race or any other race stop the dam crying CL
Carl Lewis , in my opinion is the greatest Track and Field athlete ever BUT Ben Johnson beat him on a level playing field that day- I don’t believe Carl is being honest at all and there were many positive tests to prove that. Nobody can dispute his greatness - easily the best Long Jumper the world has ever seen- if he was competing right now in his prime, he would never be beaten.
Fact: what was in Ben’s blood wasn’t in Carl’s blood. You can fail a drug test for many reasons (OTC and prescription meds have substances that are banned). Carl was positive for a cough medication. Was he faking his respiratory illness in the pursuit of an edge? You’re free to believe yes. Was the edge from the cough meds as effective as Ben’s doping program? Not even close.
This guys ability to lie with a straight face is nearly as good as his running 🏃, he was also caught talking steroids as was every sprinter in that final field, do a quick google and every one in that final was caught talking steroids in their career, Ben was just not as good at cheating as some others . ..Carl is complete narcissist.
@@ab2abblank607 FUD… I THINK YOU ARE A FUD WHITT. Countless coaches retired officials and teammates have confessed that top American athletes at the time were warned when testing would take place so they could pass. Flo-Jo never tested positive for anything either genius, I suppose you think she was clean too. He was on gear as was everyone in that race. There is an old saying if you don’t open your mouth people won’t know you are an idiot 🤫👋🏼
Carl was a great talent. Unfortunately, he was not a very likeable athlete. He just didn't translate to the fans. Just want to clarify the newspaper article shown about the Johnson Inquiry, it was called the "Dubin Inquiry", not the Johnson Inquiry ! W5 Canada, did an expose on the LA and how 4 top Olympic officals decided to keep the secret that 34 American athletes tested positive at the games. The results were in the safe of an US OC official, and they ended up disappearing. There is a document with the signatures. This Expose used to be on youtube.
I've remember watching this race live on TV that Friday night in September, 1988. I had video taped this race and could always quote his call, word for word.
I was just about to write a good comment about Lewis for being a good sport and a gentleman until read the comments on here😬you guys are going HAM on this dude
Back then it was rumors and more rumors of track and field athletes testing positive but no actual prof. False accusations that really hurt the sport....
To be fair, antidoping in 1988 is not the same as in 2024. Without going into a lot of details, in 1988 only 2 types of doping were clear and that was anabolic steroids for speed and power events and blood doping/epo for endurance events. If the IOC busted every athlete who tested positive for banned substances other than steroids and epo, I estimate that over 50 percent of the Olympic athletes would have been sent home. Most stimulants at that time were added to the ban list in 1988 only a couple months before the Olympics Games. At that time, stimulants were everywhere, in supplements and many over-the-counter medicines. In 1988, Carl and several other USA athletes tested positive at the U.S. Olympic Trials, but stated their stimulant usage was inadvertent. It is a fair debate whether Carl knowingly took stimulants; however, 2 important things to know are, Carl was tested at the Olympics and did not compete with stimulants in his system at the 1988 Olympics. In terms of performance enhancing, stimulants are a world of difference from anabolic steroids usage. And in the case of Ben Johnson, testing was so crude back then that if he had stopped doping a week before the games, he probably would not have been caught, but he was literally doping the day before his race. - Not saying Carl is completely innocent but the Ben Johnson comparison is not fair.
Johnson did stop taking steriods before the games, he wasn't taking the substance he tested positive for, and it was in a form that is broken down inside the body in hours. He was taking steriods, but he was also stitched up.
In a short time after that 1988 Olympics race, I recall John Madden said that based upon the bulked-up physique Johnson had, that Johnson got his performance out of a bottle. And those words came prior to Johnson's doping test being made public. The attributed source of that was from his five-minute radio segment he had with morning radio show host Gene Nelson on radio station KSFO, San Francisco.
I really hope Carl would just come out and admit he used PED and turn a page for everyone. It's pointless to bring the secrets to the grave and live in denial for the rest of his life.
Carl ran dirty like most of the athletes in this contest. Ever the showman, he can't get enough of his own BS. Carl, you've never let that man out of your mind for what he did to you that day--beat your ass.
It’s hard to listen to this guy and take his comments about Ben Johnson seriously. Every single runner in that final eventually tested positive. It’s common knowledge now. Why wouldn’t the interviewer mention that? I gather it was a precondition for the interview.
Carl Lewis is the biggest lier in the history of the Olympics. Ben Johnson suggested that someone from Carl’s camp spiked Ben’s beer after the race and I believe him. Yes Ben was juiced and I’m not trying to excuse that but Carl was Juiced also but it was overlooked and rules were bent and changed for him. A invalid positive is a failed drug test. Why he still gets to take the high road is amazing
The non-boycotted Olympic Games (both summer and winter) during the Cold War Era were a totally different animal. It was an Us v. Them mentality being played by both the US and the USSR where both sides did what was needed for the political stability of the entire globe in which it brought. The unofficial official stance of the two central governments, "fine so long as to not get caught." That should never be denied.
