1996 Olympic 100m Final

1996 Olympic 100m Final - English Version

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[doughboy20211]

If i won first place in the 100m dash at the Olympics, i'd make a face like that too.

[LRel2]

Real funny how no one calls Carl Lewis name in the "CHEAT" when he failed the test more than once

[egomouse]

0:30

SPARTAAAAA!!!!



[kasidhe]

Donovon Bailey right person right place right time same time as

Ben Johnson. Thank you Donovan Bailey! You made Canada proud!

[MoreMedication]

@Visionary0001 Oops, just noticed my math was off by a decade. The drinking age was raised in '79! Well, I told you I started young, and Canadian beer has a measurable alcohol content, unlike some of the brands south of the border :)

Cheers, Keiko

[MoreMedication]

@bgee4 It has nothing to do with Donovan being from Jamaica. The only athlete who gets major props in Canada is Gretzky. Clara Hughes, Canadian born, has won every colour Olympic medals come in, AND has medaled in both Summer AND Winter Olympics, and I doubt she even got a call from the Prime Minister. The best any of them can hope for is to live to 100 and get a letter from the Queen! (That woman will outlive us all!)

[MoreMedication]

@Visionary0001 No. I was born in '57 and was able to get an early start because the legal age was 18 in Ontario. My husband was born in '60, and he just made it before they bumped it to 19 in '89. And I remember the '88 games so well. We lived in a complex of 30 small buildings. It was a beautiful night in T.O. and EVERYONE in Canada was glued to a TV/radio somewhere. As soon as Ben won, we could hear people screaming all over, and car horns on the 401 and Yonge St. Magical while it lasted...

[MoreMedication]

@LRel2 We're with you there. We always knew Lewis was dirty, and couldn't figure out how he kept beating the tests. Well, when your entire nation is willing to suppress results and lie for you, it becomes fairly easy. That bastard. I'd love to kick him in the balls!

But on to better things - Donovan's facial expression is something I'll remember for the rest of my life. Just like I'll never forget the way Joe Carter looked as he rounded the bases in '93 :)

[kozmon0t]

@TheEctomorph that's what I said, the ephedra ban was unenforceable because everyone got the inadvertent-use exemption. So all sprinters used ephedra.

[TheEctomorph]

@LRel2 [Continuing on from my previous 'posts' about Carl Lewis' doping offences]: Frederick Carlton ["Carl"] Lewis, and for all I know they may be right. It is possible that this man - who set the athletics world alight, so to speak, in August 1984 by winning four gold medals at the L.A. Olympics - was as big a cheat (and fraud) as Ben Johnson, Tim Montgomery, Justin Gatlin and Marion Jones. But I sincerely believe - and hope - that that he wasn't.

[TheEctomorph]

@LRel2 [Continuing on from my previous 'posts' about Carl Lewis' doping offences]: former Olympic sprint and long jump champion the benefit of the doubt, and to believe that his long string of glittering accomplishments - on the track and in the field - between 1980 and '96 were not achieved by dishonest means - i.e. by the use of performance-enhancing anabolic steroids.

I realize that plenty of people will think that I am being somewhat naive - and too soft - in my appraisal of

[TheEctomorph]

@LRel2 [Continuing on from my previous 'posts' about Carl Lewis' doping offences]: was never found guilty of taking HARD performance-enhancing drugs - i.e. anabolic steroids - at any stage during his career as an international athlete (which began in 1980 and lasted until 1996).

Of course, there are plenty of people who believe that, in reality, Lewis was as big a cheat as Ben Johnson ...... and, for all I know, these people may be right to believe that. However, I prefer to give the