Sore loser?

If you recall back to the Summer Olympic Games of 1988 in Seoul, Korea, one of the biggest upsets was the defeat of Carl Lewis by Canada's Ben Johnson in the 100 meters running a time that shattered the standing world record. You also probably remember that the Canuck lost the title of "fastest man alive" and the gold medal after he tested positive for steroids. Carl Lewis, having finished second in that race, was awarded the gold medal, and Ben Johnson returned to Canada in shame. After serving a temporary ban from sports, he attempted a rather unsuccessful comeback to sprinting, and his career ended for good with a lifetime ban from track and field after he tested positive again a couple of years after returning to the sport.

This past week in an interview with the Melbourne Herald Sun, Johnson claims that his positive drug test was part of a set up orchestrated by Lewis involving a beer he drank with a family friend of the superstar American sprinter. Why he brings this up 18 years after the fact is a mystery to me. Regardless of whether his claims or true or not, he still admits to using drugs during the Olympic Games:

Number one, that day the drugs that they find in my system was not the drugs that I was using," he said.
Number two, Ben Johnson was sabotaged in Seoul. Somebody set me up.
I'm not denying at all that I was taking drugs but that's the drugs that I was using that they claiming.

Unless the guy can prove that Carl Lewis was using performance-enhancing drugs that day, I could care less whether or not he did have a hand in setting up Ben Johnson. What a bozo.