The US track and field team...

[Maniac]

WTF??

They giving stereoids (anabolics) in their breakfast as a part of their training or something?

All your track and field stars are cheating...

Time to get rid of the steriod checks? let everyone take em?

Everyone seems to do it anyway...

[Pongo]

Ya Ben Johnson must be one pissed off dude. They stripped him and ran him out of sports and handed the medal to a better cheater.
lol

[Masherbrum]

Originally posted by Pongo
Ya Ben Johnson must be one pissed off dude. They stripped him and ran him out of sports and handed the medal to a better cheater.
lol

I still remember Michael Johnson pulling up lame in Toronto, when Ben smacked him down.   But, it's a shame atheletes take that chit.

Karaya

[Red Tail 444]

Originally posted by Pongo
Ya Ben Johnson must be one pissed off dude. They stripped him and ran him out of sports and handed the medal to a better cheater.
lol

Carl Lewis never was under suspicion of using drugs. Ben Johnson got busted...twice. Ben earned the right to get stripped and disgraced.


Masherburn, Michael Johnson never raced Ben Johnson in that circus of a 150 meter race, it was Donovan Bailey, and they're both juiced up, self-righteous clowns.

[Gunslinger]

there's a female runner that's pissed cause all she did was get acused and they pulled her from the team or somthing.  She flat out threw a challenge down to the board prove it or STFU.  Sorry to busy to find an actual link.

[vorticon]

shame we dont have uber-fast smallish drug test machines...then we could just test em before the race even starts...

[Pongo]

Originally posted by Red Tail 444
Carl Lewis never was under suspicion of using drugs. Ben Johnson got busted...twice. Ben earned the right to get stripped and disgraced.


Masherburn, Michael Johnson never raced Ben Johnson in that circus of a 150 meter race, it was Donovan Bailey, and they're both juiced up, self-righteous clowns.

Are you saying he didnt use drugs? Im saying he did. And its a shame to pile gold and fortune a man who was a better cheater but a worse runner.

If you dont know that Lewises drug use is out of the closet.
sorry to break the news to you

[gofaster]

Originally posted by Gunslinger
there's a female runner that's pissed cause all she did was get acused and they pulled her from the team or somthing.  She flat out threw a challenge down to the board prove it or STFU.  Sorry to busy to find an actual link.

Sounds like Marion Jones.

[Red Tail 444]

Originally posted by Pongo
Are you saying he didnt use drugs? Im saying he did. And its a shame to pile gold and fortune a man who was a better cheater but a worse runner.

If you dont know that Lewises drug use is out of the closet.
sorry to break the news to you

Yes. I am saying he didn't use drugs. I watch and read the news regularly, and have seen nothing about it, or on his personal website, that I recently visited (within the last 3 weeks, and just today to verify an earlier post).

Pongo, all your link suggests is some relevation that took place last weekend, with no full story related to it. I would think the most decorated track and field runner of all time coming out about drug use would draw at least a little media attention, expesially with all the issues surrounding Marion Jones, Tim Montgomery, and other high profile athletes.

Also, I take into question any news outlet that gets someone's name wrong. His name is Johnson, not Johnston.

I question the credibility of the news source. I don't question yours for providing it.

[FUNKED1]

pongown3d

Carl Lewis took Sudafed.

Oh Nos Sudafed!!!

[Nashwan]

Yes. I am saying he didn't use drugs. I watch and read the news regularly, and have seen nothing about it, or on his personal website, that I recently visited (within the last 3 weeks, and just today to verify an earlier post).

Pongo, all your link suggests is some relevation that took place last weekend, with no full story related to it. I would think the most decorated track and field runner of all time coming out about drug use would draw at least a little media attention, expesially with all the issues surrounding Marion Jones, Tim Montgomery, and other high profile athletes.

It would probably be a much bigger story if it happened now, but the details were released about a year ago.

A senior official in the US athletics anti-drugs orginisation released thousands of documents to the press. They showed Lews and 2 others failed drugs tests at the US olympic trials before the Seoul olympics, but were automatically cleared, and the info not made public.

Just do a google search for carl lewis exum, (Exum is the US official's name).

Here's a bit from Reuters:

At last, the truth is known. When Ben Johnson tested positive for the steroid stanozolol and had to give up his gold medal at the Seoul Olympics, that medal was in turn awarded to a drug cheat.

Carl Lewis, hypocrite and multiple Olympic medallist, was merely one of more than 100 American athletes whose positive drug tests were suppressed by the United States Olympic Committee in what has to be the most pervasive doping conspiracy since the East German steroid factory was shut down.

The whistle-blower this time was Dr. Wade Exum, the former USOC director for drug control from 1991 to 2000. According to 30,000 pages of documents covering the years between 1988 and 2000 released to Sports Illustrated and the Orange County register by Dr. Exum, Lewis himself had tested positive for ephe-drine, pseudoephedrine and phenylpropanoline during the U.S. Olympic trials in 1988.

Far from being suspended for the Seoul Olympics, Lewis was let off with a warning and allowed to compete. After he was the primary beneficiary of Johnson's positive test, Lewis was in the vanguard of the athletes lining up to condemn Johnson as a drug cheat two months after he himself had been allowed to wriggle out of a positive test.

And Lewis was only the most prominent of the athletes involved. The list includes Joe DeLoach, 200-metres winner in Seoul; Andre Phillips, a star in the 400-metre hurdles; soccer's Alexei Lalas and tennis player Mary Joe Fernandez, who tested positive for pseudoephedrine just before the '92 Games in Barcelona.

The cheating was almost certainly more widespread than the incidents mentioned in the newly released documents. The list, for instance, does not include Florence Griffith-Joyner, although the circumstantial evidence points to steroid use on her part before she won the women's 100 metres in Seoul.

The revelations are not a surprise. There have been rumours for years that the USOC was suppressing positive tests. The U.S. Track & Field Federation has been involved in a longstanding dispute with the sport's world governing body over its refusal to release the identity of an American athlete who tested positive before the Sydney Olympics, an athlete who may have been involved in one of the gold-medal U.S. sprint-relay teams.

What is shocking is the extent of the conspiracy. A total of 114 positive tests hidden over a period of at least 15 years, 10,000 pages of documents, the biggest Olympic athlete of the era himself implicated in the scandal. Altogether, the athletes involved won 18 Olympic medals between 1988 and 2000.

[Nashwan]

Carl Lewis took Sudafed.

Oh Nos Sudafed!!!

"He claims these substances came from a cold remedy he took.

"Now, I have to be careful what I'm saying, but it seems funny to me that it's only athletes in the power events who ever seem to have colds," said Cram.

"It never seems to be a middle-distance runners who are caught taking flu remedies.

"And even in my day you knew what you couldn't take when you had a cold, and Carl more than anyone else would have known that.

"I simply can't buy that 'mistake' line as an excuse."
Steve Cram

[FUNKED1]

Ya know I've taken Sudafed for years.  Never noticed any increase in my ability to jump and run.  Was I doing it wrong?

[Wanker]

Originally posted by FUNKED1
Ya know I've taken Sudafed for years.  Never noticed any increase in my ability to jump and run.  Was I doing it wrong?

Perhaps because you did the "pump & cum", instead of the "jump & run".  

[Nashwan]

Yes, you were taking sudafed. What you should have been doing is taking large amounts of ephedrine, and using sudafed as the excuse when you failed a drugs test.