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  • Ben Johnson was miles behind Lewis without the drugs. He couldn't compete. That's the truth. Most of you seem to be as deluded as Johnson (very).

  • Ben Johnson was a beast. Nobody could touch him, on roids or not!

  • I can tell U lying, coz when U replying, stutter stutter, stutter stutter....

  • what a fucking machine he was, and he beat that shit faced cunt on the track regardless of what happened later.

    that gay prick lewis was on drugs as well.

  • @donnyab I am new to TAF, but why does eveyone hate carl?

  • best thing about Ben was his ass kickings of Carl Lewis.

  • look how this shit faced bastard rips ben up in the opening,like everyone don't know ben titled got taken,then have the nerve to thank him for being on the show.i hate these news hosts.

  • who gives a shit,its competition,they all juicin shyyte fastest man wins who gives a crap.

  • @PONYBOY430 huh?? Jesus Christ hero??

  • worst interviewer ever

  • roids

  • I wonder if they'll ever be a true "natural" sprinter (free of performance enhanced drugs) who will be the fastest man in the world? I suppose that probably won't happen again.

  • A Good interview, he was just unlucky that he got caught. As he said most athletes are on performance drugs.... end of the day he ran 9.79 most of the guys in his day's could not get anywhere near that time, & even now most guys cannot get anywhere near that time.

  • roids

  • steroidsR4losers

  • @steroidsR4losers watch?v=uOkWHfjUHuw

  • Not Ussaind Bolt as was stupidly suggested or Astafa Powell but say anything to discredit a person and not believer they can be fast naturally.

  • who cares if they use gas...? its fine with me.

  • We all love Ben Johnson. A great man and a great interview.

  • I though Ben was great, he was an inspirational figure despite the dope...in fact he probably aided the sport in disuading the use of drugs if anything. Just a very exciting athelete with an air of menace - fantastic!

  • Canada loves ya Ben!!! Saw you walking in Toronto last year...I got you to smile!!!

    They should have given you the gold back....everyone that day was running dirty. We all know it now it.

  • @Greenballed Now tell me how do you know everybody was on drugs, do you have solid proof, if you dont shut the fuck up

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  • @bugzbunnys It's a know fact. Many of the athletes drug tests from that time period would fail todays standards. All of the test results are kept. I worked for the IOC doping department in Montreal for 2 years. Thats how I know.

  • @Greenballed Oh my bad , I was just in an bad mood

  • @Greenballed Have they tested Lewis' sample recently?

  • i used to love ben johnson and carl lewis back in the day. now i just love ben, fuck carl. he's not only a cheat but a liar too.

  • @slimithy12 amen brother

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  • yes, christie was 32 when he won gold, but even after he officially retired he'd often run at meets, he had 100x times the natural amount of nandrolone in his urine when he was tested, lol. but he still denise that he took anything.

  • Exactly,

    Ben weighed 80kg in his prime and he could squat 300kg x6 reps, 4 sets. He could also bench press over 200kg. How many people can do that even with steroids?

    in the 80's Eastern European athletes were given steroids by their own governments and even they couldnt produce track sprinters that could run under 10secs (because its not an easy thing to do).

  • Hey Blackonics!!!!!!! your man Carl, he tested positive at the "83 World Championshis in Helsinki, but they diverted the attention to the US "B" team that was competing in the Pan American Games. Thats when all the throwers started to say they were using sudafed and were afraid they would test positive, so they pulled out and went home. Carl is no different than the rest.

  • don forget that linford ashole christie was busted too 3 times including this one but got off on technicality lol 0n the 4th time there was no going back....long live Ben Jhonson as he will remain to be my icon

  • linford only got caught after he retired because nandrolone wasnt detectable back then. he did a charity sprint at the age of 37 and ran something like, 10.04.

  • linf was lucky because he'd semi-retired by the time he was caught. wasnt it a coincidence that he was busted using the same drugs Dwain chambers was using? lol

  • When I was a track athlete they called me a "pugs" cheat rather than a "drugs" cheat, because instead of choosing to use performance enhancing drugs I let a small dog with a flat face run the race for me.

  • Ben looks reptilian, his eyes twitching and moving. All we need is the tongue popping out here and there....

  • @Dilupist1 Ahahahahahhahaha!! Being an animal lover, I like your post!

  • Clients in general speak good English, that goes without saying.

  • They have the Para Olympics for the disabled.

    May be they should have the "Synthetic" Olympics for the juiced up.

  • i love that idea, i was thinking the same thing. A "no limit" olympics. 100m dash in 8 seconds flat

  • The hypocrisy is that in bodybuilding (Mr. Olympia contests etc) steroids are used and accepted and people turn a blind eye.

  • lol, bodybuilding isnt a sport. why would it be hypocritical?

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  • @wannablikeu Competitive Bodybuilding is a joke. It isn't a sport. People pay to watch huge and shredded bodies prancing on stage. Nobody would pay the same to watch Natural Bodybuilders. It's all in the demand.

  • Many hypocrites here...

  • was it the client of your mother who teach you how to write english?

  • "taught you"

  • how many clients your mother has? did she told u once witch one of her clients might be your father?

  • I understood your insult the first time, it doesn't get better by repeating it. And your last sentence was full of errors. Normally I wouldn't mind bad grammar, but it just seems silly that you would criticise Ben Johnson when you can't compose one correct sentence yourself.

  • your english is nice, i think al clients of your mother do speak it fluently..i do speak other languages idiot, i have seen al the world, u keep staying home depended to the clients of your mother

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  • ben is tartamude

  • ben, u r always the best no matter what has happened to you, 1988 (or since u started ur career) till now, no one has the blasting spark from the starting block....God Bless You my mate.......

  • Thats why I'm kinds skeptical about Usain Bolt's sudden rise to the top with a super commanding lead, sooner or later that kid is going down in a mega embarassment, you should be wondering not applauding. Any body remembers Marion Jones not too long ago is like the female goddess of track n field.

  • Prat - why judge someone before he or she has been proven guilty of anything. Usain Bolt has single handedly saved athletics from obscurity and death after years of drug scandels. Bolt didn't 'come from nowhere' he was breaking world records at 15 and younger. He only didn't win something earlier due to 2 years bad injuries. Enjoy this master of the sport...but if he is ever done then I won't ever watch athletics again (apart from watching Yalena Isimbayeva pole vault in her pants :-) )

  • Sure he didn`t come from nowhere, but as it seems it would be naive to think there are any clean runners in a 100m final.

  • bolt has to be tested more than the average athlete. yeah i agree.. in the unlikely event that he may be taking something and is caught, i wont watch track ever again.

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  • it seems like your stupid ass wasn't watching track and field in 2000to 2003 when bolt was dominating from he was 15 yrs old in youth and junior championship. get your facts right before you start being fucking skeptical bitch...

  • bolt has been an overachieving freak since the day he started competing in athletics. There was speculation throughout Marion's career about her use of drugs. The top 6 female sprinters of that time were all proven drugs cheats.

    Believe me, in this day and age drug testing is too advanced. Masking no longer works and AAS's can be traced back to up to a year of its initial use.

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  • All you that don`t believe that athletes don`t use drugs: You live in a dream world. Listen to Ben Johnson, he has lived and breathed athletics, and he knows what he is talking about. If you think Bolt is drug-free, you need to wake up. Jamaica has so many top athletes in the sprint, to many really if you think their country only has 2,3 milion habitants. USA has like 400 million.

  • Everyone knows that the Americans have been dirty for years!!!  Lewis, Marion Jones, Flo Jo (rest in peace) and alot of other American athletes. They were a head of the World in massing their samples to beat the tests but with new technology now it is getting harder and harder to do so. My view point is that if you have to cheat and use anything to give you an edge, or to make you better over a competitor, no matter if you win you are still a cheating "LOSER" period!!

  • I think Johnson came across well in that interview, he appears to have a GSOH.

    I have to laugh at many of the comments on this video as they get so personal.

    At the end of the day Johnson cheated but he was certainly unlucky in the fact that he was used as a scape goat. As many of you guys have mentioned Lewis tested positive many times, in fact in the run up to Seoul '88 he tested positive for banned substances on 3 occasions but the USOC decided to keep it quiet.

  • Lewis never tested positive for any illegal drugs (steroids, blood doping, etc.) CARL USED A "STIMILANT" FOR WEIGT LOSS and at the time it was legal!!!! hE NEVER GOT CAUGHT, HE ADMITTED IT VOLUNTARILY!!! nOW IF U WANT TO SEE SOMEONE WHO MAY GET BUSTED..iTS mIKE jOHNSON. fLO jO WAS DIRTY A MONKEY KNOWS THAT. iT WAS PROBABLY THE DRUGS THAT KILLED HER. wAS IT WORTH IT?

  • thats what i'm saying. stimulants are not steroids, i'm holding a pck of ritalin and reading the ingredients on the back which includes ephedrine. the 5 jamaicans who were caught apparently doping recently were taking a substance "similar" to ephedrine which wasnt even on the banned list. the iaaf had no reason to ban these jamaicans but the jamaican athletics association did because the americans turned it into such a big issue. the banned for 3months only. lol

  • fuck let them use steroids, in the end the best athlete will still win... fuck why dont the assholes ban cigarettes and alcohol instead ....more people die from smoking and drinking related diseases than steroids.. its all about government taxes and revenue..

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  • i dont drink or smoke thankyou....

    STEROIDS ARE FOR LOSERS.......

  • It is about how fast the athlete can go.. steroids, despite the rumors of them being bad for sports.. cause people to win sports! I'm not happy that athletes use steroids, so banning them won't do any harm... banning alcohol and cigarettes wouldn't do harm either. What I am angry about with your comment is that you think it is okay for steroids to be allowed but not cigs and alcohol.. why not just ALL OF THE ABOVE be banned? p.s. I don't drink or smoke too

  • And to make the point even clearer to you.... here you are saying that the best athlete will win if they let them use steroids.. okay now take that same logic and apply it to alcohol: the best people that don't drink lots, will end up living longer. That doesn't make it okay for them to be drunks driving home!

  • lol ben johnson looks about 50 lol

  • sonnyjimsonnjim...Maybe because he was around 47 or 48 at the time of the interview?

  • dey r jus jealous of caribbean people!!! u know !!! the caribbean is made up of all different people but we all say and stand one BLOOD!!

  • BOLT looks as relaxed as Ben Johnson after the race. Could he.......?.

  • heeeeeeeelllllllllzzzz NO!! Bolt is an all natural athlete. Ben Johnson did disgrace our country (he is Jamaican) by using but at least he was forthcoming unlike many other athletes at that time. As he said there are a lot of athletes at that time that used drugs. Its harder to hide it now. Bolt jus loves to party and have a good time. He's an only child with a one of a kind personality and he's just a happy freak of nature :-) plus he's a leo. They love to show off but we love him!

  • Just an observation. Time will tell. I thought Johnson was Canadian.

  • He's a Canadian citizen but he's Jamaican....hence the accent. His English is choppy and has nothing to do with his drug use as an athlete as ppl may think. Its English mixed with our native dialect (jamaican patois)

  • That's right Karen..andI think he( Ben Johnson) had a little stammer which didn't help!!

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  • he's not canadian but the canadians pump him up with steriods real good.

  • Had I known this was al nazira, I never would've clicked on it.

    There should be warnings.

  • I think Ben is right. As long as athletes know what their able to find they will use other drugs. Ben used a drug they couldn't find up until he was nailed. Tough luck Ben!

  • Yes Ben Johnson's right! I think there was a cover up at Seoul and the Americans were somehow allowed to get off eg Flo Jo..I don't care what ppl say nor what the 'official' dope results tell us..she was on something... She was always a good athlete but not in the world recod breaking league. Her physique changed and her times were improved dramatically in '88. Check out the 200m at Rome World Champs '87 ..she was slimmer and from memory I think she was 2nd or 3rd( need to double check).

  • I don't think the athletes from usa where judged any different then the rest. They just happened to have drugs that where harder to detect. Jusy like you say, Flo Jo doped her self in to a freak, just like the DDR athletes used to do. Didn't Flo jo die from having a heart attack only something like 40 years old. Doped??? ;-)

  • The level of ignorance on some people just blows my mind...Why would you make a DUMB ASS statment like this? WHy don't you try googling or any type of research...This is how rumors get started..and it's doo doo brains like yourself that believe EVERYTHING they hear...run with it....and pass the DUMB SHIT on to other doo doo brains....That woman was tested like crazy...Just like Bolt...She passed EVERY test.....Even in death....She past EVERY test..Let this woman rest in peace.....Be decent..DAMN

  • The danger of using the kind of language you're using, is coming of like a "dumb ass" etc. For instance, why do you think Marion Jones got framed, after passing EVERY test, but the last? Did you hear her statement after she confessed?

  • Hmmm....Sooo...WHAT does Marion Jones passing every test but the LAST have to Do with Flo Jo passing EVERY Test......I fail to see your point there....You still need to go GOOGLE A FEW FACTS and come up with a better argument instead of passing along false information like a retarded news magazine.....

  • Ok, the point being, she confessed, she didn't fail any tests.

  • The point is she confessed because she was guilty and it was coming out anyway....Thats what happens a lot...People tend to come clean when its either been proven or was about to be proven...Neither was the case for Flo Jo...Not EVEN close........

  • bolt is not clean!!

  • Wow sore loser....what a surprise

  • I smell hateration....I'm guessing your american. Guess who I am. He's very much clean. And if you are gonna question him might as well question the entire jamaican sprint team since they've been kicking ass at the IAAF. Jus accept it. You can have drug free winners like Bolt, Veronica Campbell Brown, melaine Walker, Asafa powell, Michael frater...the list goes on. Proud to be JAMAICAN!!! can yu tell? lol

  • I am not American, Canadian or Jamaican but I really love Bolt , Asafa and all the Jamaicans and other Caribbeans who 'run tings' now :-) I believe that Bolt is the real deal. He's been fast from his school days. Jamaica and the islands have always produced talent. A lot of them used to go off to Canada..e.g. Donovan Bailey (and Ben Johnson??). I don't believe Bolt is on drugs, his physique etc looks natural..I hope for the sake of the sport and all the kids that he remains clean!!!

  • Forget linford christie born in Jamaica represented United Kingdom. Jamaica is in producing more. 2012 will be big for jamaica. Alot of Jamaican here in london.

  • Yeah , I wasn't sure about Linford..thanks for clarifying!!! Did he leave Jamaica as an adult as a a small boy? All the same Jamaica and the ret of the islands r definitely on the upand up!! Love it!!

  • he emigrated at the age of 7

  • Ben can't speak english well and he emigrated at age of 7? wow.

  • Ben is too stupid, altough learning language has nothing to do with inteligence, but a bit with memory and motivation

  • "although" , "intelligence"

  • at THE age

  • he migrated at the age of 14.

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  • Usain Bolt...is he clean?

  • Very clean. Thats why he's able to compete....unlike Gatlin.

  • His speech impedament has been documented before, at least he doesn't let it stop him from speaking to an audience, which is hard enough even without such a hurdle to overcome

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  • he is the best 4ever

  • Ben Jonnson is the best i still love that guy i meat him twice a super guy and as for drugs when me and my buddies were in the gym we were all getting jacked also it falls in your lap and if you don't want your buddies to pass you fast you better take your daily dose lol its just in your face and when working out is your life at the time and you see how fast it will repair you its so hard to say no i don't care who it is its the truth.

  • Barry Switzer (former Oklahoma University and Dallas Cowboys head coach) has stated that American steroid use began after the integration of colleges in the 70's. White players, fearing they would be unable to compete with blacks, began using steroids. Same with the East Germans in the 70s. Blacks then had to use roids to keep our advantage

  • Frost over my nuts.

  • Fuck u u sick prick. I hope your nuts burn to death, they don't deserve frost!

  • Frost over my sphincter

  • I take that back. Ben Johnson has fish eyes, but Dawn Jordan has flounder eyes. It appears that due her "dabbling" with growth hormone, her left has migrated to the right side of her face.

  • Drugs cheat carl lewis use of performance enhancing drugs i despise more than Jones.. at least she was remorseful

    With america having drug cheats label, as home of steroid usage and development programs, with documents of USOC concealing hundreds of positive drug cases of americans between 1988-2000, series of scandals such as Balco, anything any american does in any power, speed, endurance based sport is always gonna be looked on suspiciously and their performance given little credence.

  • SHUT THE FUCK UP, FUCKER

  • wonder if she was canadian would he have said he expected it. ben is and always has been a hater. I bet he would say the same about flo

  • Who wouldn't say the same about FloJo at this point? She quit the year before mandatory random testing, which is an odd thing to do at age 29 when you're the best sprinter in the world by a wide margin.

  • lol ben johnson can't speak english, like athletes are usually educated.....i'm an asshole i know, but LISTEN TO HIM LMAO

  • Its sad to think that you can be completely honest about training and working out and not taking performance ennhancing drugs and everyone else you are in a race with might all be juiced up. Its just a shame how dishonest some people are and how people will resort to cheating just to win in athletics.

  • he made a massive presence in the starting blocks with his masive shoulders and muscle packed build. he really looked like michelin man . I did recall he broke some starting blocks aswell in his hey day. pity it was roids.

  • dude , they were all juiced up. they're pros , they compete for a living . they stripped ben of his medal 'cause lewis didn't win. so the us used theit lobby.

  • all those guys were on drugs.

  • shame what some athletes will do to win

  • Its okay BEN. God loves you for changing for the better. We all make mistakes but to learn from them and to be able to move on is a blessing. Be strong brother. Don't let these YOU TUBE hypocrites dog you or get you down.

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  • Ben is no different than Carl Lewis or Dennis Mitchell or Andre Cason or Leroy Burrell or a long list of American sprinters who were juiced to the max.

    Ben got caught because he was Canadian and Canada does not protect its athletes. America does.

  • Ben Johnson is canadian u idiots..i see him at the york university track almost everyday ..whoever thinks he isnt is a moron

  • Biggest problem here: Ben Johnson is not fucking Canadian and shouldn't have been representing Canada!

  • BEN ALL THE WAY

  • Ben's a good guy. Good for him coming from nothing and training that hard to reach the top. I agree with him most atheletes that won anything in the 80's, 90's and 00's are roiders. Sad but true. Just the way it is. Most professional atheletes at the top are roiders. Deal with it.

  • Hi HBOMB99 - You must be a Jamacian.

    You boast about Ben without even mentioning that the drugs he took helped to increase the spped. Coming from nothing and going on welfare, tell us the truth man. Look at Ben's bulging eyes, it is obvious the guy has a mental illness.

    Maybe years of taking drugs created those fish eyes?

  • Notsonormalman, do you even realize how silly your statement sounds?

  • Don't live in a world of denial. Ben is a proven drug head. Do you think those who conducted the testing lied? Ben was given an opportunity to try out for an NFL punt return position, even after the drug detection, but he refused the offer. "Dah,

    I might get hurt playing football". Then he was charged with waving a starters pistol around during a road rage incident. Then the "Cheata" beverage commercial. The man from Jamaica is bonkers, but still people like you worship him.

  • I was talking about your last two sentences. What do bulging eyes have to do with anything? and "mental illness?"...

  • Even your insults are loaded with ignorance. If you knew what a banana tree is you'd know it's impossible to swing from it.

  • Hello Yego2 - When you take drugs, it's amazing what you can swing from. Just ask Ben.

  • Go and stick your pink head up your mother's pasty white cunt - and keep it there you racist cunt.

  • Abnormalman05:I bet you were the biggest beer boozing,weed smoking

    ,crackhead sniffing,degenerate in college.

    LMAO I bet it was you i saw buying weed

    in the corner with your bong buddies.

    Ben wanted to be the best and went the wrong route. Did you act like this when

    the drug overusing baseball player Roger Clemens did it? You worshipped Clemens right? Normalman50 your abnormal! Prick!

  • Fish eyes? LMAO! He was probably born with those fish eyes. i've seen people with fish eyes who never took a roid in their life. Look at Dawn Jordan for example, she looks like her father was a waleye for cripe sakes!

  • Has any one beat Bens record yet with out using drugs

  • we will never know for sure