1988 Seoul Olympic Games 100 Ben Johnson

[@kainadys]

Ben Jonson will be remembered forever for his excellent and outstanding performance.....❤

[@M-ps6ve]

for his cheating you mean, r/etard

[@Fredcerebrate]

@@M-ps6ve ''By the time of the 1987 World Championships, Johnson had won his four previous races with Lewis and had established himself as the best 100 metres sprinter. At Rome, Johnson gained instant world fame and confirmed this status when he beat Lewis for the title, setting a new world record of 9.83 seconds as well, beating Calvin Smith's former record by a full tenth of a second.'' - Wikipedia (He was the fastest man in the world at that time. And even without drugs he would have beaten Lewis)

[@M-ps6ve]

@@Fredcerebrate he wasn't fast at all, r e t a r d. if he were fast he wouldn't have had to cheat by taking massive amounts of steroids

[@M-ps6ve]

@@Fredcerebrate he wasn't fast at all. if he were fast he wouldn't have had to cheat by taking massive amounts of steroids

[@Fredcerebrate]

@@M-ps6ve Is speed just about steroids? I rather think it's a combination of factors. Ben Johnson was superior. In 88 everyone in that final had drugs, but only he was caught. There is already an investigation into this.

[@praveenmenon1109]

I was 14 when I saw this and is forever etched in my memory. Ben - Salute.

[@raregoodds3143]

your saluting a little bottle lol

[@theelf152]

@@raregoodds3143 So were most of the others including that hypocrite Carl.

[@deanhowell5936]

1974

[@frankharley1000]

I was fortunate to watch this in person, we had seats right behind the starting blocks.

[@iceberg5220]

This was an Iconic event in history and should still be appreciated for the fact that we all watched a Human Being run that fast.!

[@ebojfmdboojoh4023]

Yes even if he was doped, he still had to actually run the race

[@M-ps6ve]

best of luck in learning how to spell, r/etard

[@elnardowebster2842]

@@ebojfmdboojoh4023 6 out of 8 of those finalists were busted sooner or later in their careers, so it wouldn't surprise me if they told me every guy was doped that day.

[@toddpage9138]

Would have ran faster time if he didn't ease up at end and raise finger

[@jozefserf2024]

The greatest 100 metre race of all time.

[@M-ps6ve]

you mean dirtiest, m/oron

[@harmankardon478]

@@M-ps6ve rookie.... what are you 16? little bitach

[@Ray_eddi]

Facts

[@Ray_eddi]

​@@M-ps6vedon't be so naive

[@drkevinellsworth818]

@@M-ps6vegreatest 100m of all time!

[@Zion-jw3gm]

just to see th look on carls face...priceless

[@harmankardon478]

Epic run from Ben! say what you will all these guys were jacked.

[@M-ps6ve]

epic cheating you mean, r/etard

[@harmankardon478]

@@M-ps6ve everyone was jacked, rookie....

[@user-uo5um5ss1u]

@Harman Kardon ben johnson was jacked, r/etard. Nothing but a steroids cheater

[@mrkipling2201]

Calvin Smith and Silva weren't.

[@frankcoletta]

Fantastic compilation of an incredible era of 100m - momentous

[@irishspeedo]

This is the very best & greatest 100m final of all time.

[@nigelhart3897]

Glorious to watch. If Lewis had won there would have been no mention of drugs. Ben Johnson was one hell of an athlete and no one can take that away from him.

[@chucky7981]

Could've won off of 'roids. Why didn't he do it, right?

[@karencorban607]

Yes BJ was a great athlete ..... the issue will always remain then why was he stupid enough to use performance enhancing drugs. So that makes Carl the better athlete as his performance were not chemically assisted.

[@jiujitsujedi]

Yes the doping can and did take it away

[@barringtonrattray9882]

How can a man be on drugs and eating chewing gum

[@karencorban607]

@@chucky7981 exactly so why the hell did he do it= his performance will remain forever tainted. Such a talented athlete & such a dam shame to have thrown it all away.

[@ultrastandphoenix1883]

Ben was my mentor and coach .trust me .he was fast even without it

[@JP-tz5sm]

I agree

[@barringtonrattray9882]

Carl Lewis was on drugs and because Ben beat him he says Ben on it

[@Owanango]

Without what?? :-)

[@ultrastandphoenix1883]

@@Owanango he was fast without steroids. If everyone was running cleanser he still would of won .trust me man was really fast

[@eightiesnow]

Lewis was a bad loser. Lewis was on the ahem. Ben Johnson was great in 1988, the best.

[@alirezapojhan]

Ben Johnson, the best of All time.

[@74arnd]

Best Faker

[@dkohlcom]

The best, agree

[@mick3765]

The best cheat you mean?

[@earlhowardiii8277]

Best roid man in modern day history

[@servicekid7453]

You’ve not heard of Usain Bolt?

[@joedude4822]

I'm reminiscing watching this again. Probably the sweetest moment of my watching the Olympics 100m in all my life I and of course I'm Canadian. 😉 It was so sweet to beat Carl "I'm the biggest douchebag in all sports" Lewis. Conversely maybe one of the hardest sporting losses I've ever had to experience when two days later Ben gets stripped of the gold and it's given to what's his name

[@fabiolapontini]

Ben Johnson forever❤️!

[@slowmoe1964]

Great video. Cut right to the races

[@ivancaroni387]

ho avuto la fortuna di conoscerlo personalmente e ancora oggi conservo una bellissima foto insieme.Per me e stato un grandissimo.Era un concentrato di fibre veloci

[@SuperPsuresh]

I saw that race live on TV. We all supported Ben Johnson. I was very upset when they took away his gold. That race is epic. Ben raising his hand celebrating.. what a moment

[@rededwards3479]

Carl Lewis foot fouled at 13:24. Great Britans Linford Christia was the actual Gold medal winner. It should be awarded to him! There's another video from the front that clearly shows the FOOT FOUL but it has been wiped from KZbin!

[@kidmack3556]

I believe you. The guy that used to be lauded as the NFL's fastest man Darell Green used to interfere with his rival's stride by running on the line flailing his arms over the divider. I was waiting for one of his victims to insist on there being an empty lane between them to race. Some guys always find a way to cheat.

[@rededwards3479]

@@kidmack3556 Here's the FRONTAL video of Carl Lewis Foot foul. I thought it was scrubbed from KZbin....kzbin.info/www/bejne/e5bVhJmki9xrmrc&feature=share&fbclid=IwAR3MU_0P1L64vLXc2ToI0PyB8SxWUFuS6xPypC3sb0-ZnOuNTG2NgVoIbT0

[@steviesly7908]

THE BESTS 110 METER I EVER SAW 10/6/22/

[@RalphieMaysGhost]

I know Ben got caught and he got his medal and record stripped but that handraise before the tape was gangster😎

[@SauceBottleChest88]

You know what’s mental about that day , the time of 9.79 was a new world record . It beat the previous by 5/100th of a second …and it seemed unbelievably fast !!! Then Usain Bolt ( although many years on ) blitzed the field in 2009 - at a staggering 9.58 !!!! That is surely a record that will last a very long time ❤❤

[@normadesmond6017]

got out of bed in the middle of the night for this one. And I left a note for my mother with one word: Ben. We both hated Carl Lewis. And then came the new..... I felt sorry for him, more then anything else. Everyone of them in that race was doped.

[@jean-francoiscloutier1359]

and it's easier to punish a little Canadian than an American

[@normadesmond6017]

@@jean-francoiscloutier1359 well, who knows why or what. But he was doped...

[@TUXMAN06]

Cold war politics that's what

[@normadesmond6017]

@@TUXMAN06 Doped to his eyeballs. Like most of them were.

[@normadesmond6017]

o yeah. they were. But he was the one who was treated like a criminal.

[@robertosalsone5655]

Ben was simply ahead of his time..

[@M-ps6ve]

simply roided out of his mind, r/etard

[@ysgol3]

Ben was, and is, the greatest sprinter of all time.

[@M-ps6ve]

greatest cheater of all time, r/etard

[@ysgol3]

@@M-ps6ve Still the greatest, r/eterd (to repeat your incomprehensible word LOL).

[@user-uo5um5ss1u]

Not the greatest at anything, except for being juiced out of his mind and cheating, r/etard

[@crabb9966]

I have to say Bolt was but if Johnson wasn't banned we don't know what would have happened

[@hi0u91e9]

Carl Lewis wins the least deserved gold medal in history. Lost the race, was on drugs and ran out of his lane.

[@flelite3994]

Facts

[@chillregular2101]

You mean Ben Johnson . Carl definitely wasn’t on drugs lol

[@doriangray2020]

You are an idiot. Lewis one of the best olympians EVER. Study your history before posting gibberish.

[@sanjayKumar-gm1wu]

Yes Lewis was running on line this is not fare to give him gold, rule was broken in this race.

[@doriangray2020]

@@sanjayKumar-gm1wu you are a special kind of stupid.

[@richg9448]

Ben shoulda told Carl Lewis to take a picture, it’ll last longer. 3 looks???FYI: These guys and girls all knew how to use “gear.” That’s why everyone knew that Ben allowed himself to be set up. Track athletes ONLY use gear during phase 1 & 2 of training. Phase 1 Strength training and fundamentals. Phase 2 taking phase 1 to the track. Then they are all off the gear 6-9 months before they even compete. And the metabolites that the tests find from the gear back then are only caught if you don’t lean out fully which is why more women failed tests back then than the men. The women have to be off the gear longer than 6-9 months whereas the men dry out faster. That’s why looking at Ben at 3-4% body fat it’s no way misuse was the cause of his failed test. He was set up. And that weasel Lewises comments about “Chalk it up to the Game” comments told me all I needed to know. Johnson had a target on his back since 9.83 in Rome. Like in Pro Bodybuilding gear works better for some than others.

[@tellsitasitis]

What bugs me, Lewis was on them as well.

[@kidmack3556]

Yeah, even in '84 The USOC ran interference for Lewis after he refused to submit a sample to a surprise urinalysis test at the Santa Monica training facility just before the Olympics. There's a great article in Sports Illustrated that's accessible online... or used to be.

[@drvn8]

It's tricky, from what I've heard Lewis was most likely on growth hormone (which would explain the braces), not steroids. At the time, growth hormone was not a banned substance. Crazy thing to me is that Johnson was probably off of them far long enough to clear the Olympics. Something fishy was going on there, he should not have been stripped of the medal.

[@LoneGunmanProd]

Amazing how Johnson went from 10.22 in '84 to 9.79 here.

[@fender1000100]

The amount of STEROIDS they pumped into him. It's a wonder he didnt run faster.

[@TMensah]

He had a Brilliant take off. His start was spot on. That made the difference.

[@LoneGunmanProd]

@@TMensah That and the gallon of steroids he was injecting.

[@earlhowardiii8277]

@@TMensah 🤫The difference was STEROIDS!!!!!!

[@theelf152]

@@TMensah I've never seen anyone get out the block like that. He was like a bull out of the gates - so explosive. Etched into my memory forever

[@anthonymcken6050]

Give the man back his gold medal and his records. The IOC are a disgrace. Great Aussie commentary.

[@greggus42]

Ben Johnson; unfairly maligned';probably rhe greatest 100- metre sprinter ever.

[@Tonyr2]

Ben Johnson greatest steroid taker in history.

[@nattybk5998]

Bolls is by far the greatest lol

[@douglasroseveare7295]

@@Tonyr2 Funny thing is that Carl Lewis was on juice that race, and Linford Christie tested + later on down the road and was banned for life I think.

[@frankcoletta]

One of the all-time greats yes, not sure he's the GOAT because didn't get the chance to become the best - then you have to look at vision of Jesse Owens in the 30s, it is incredible and then you have Usain Bolt, winning 3 Olympics in a row is out of this world

[@iamanisland]

Definitely unfairly maligned but I would say Ben comes after Usain Bolt and Jessy Owens.

[@avirimes]

Ben Johnson is the best sprinter of all ages. Not noteworthy wears and tennis, but a technique of beginning and an explosion sprinter. With Osain Bold's resources, he would make 9:30 easy. Unfortunately, the public understands nothing about steroids. Take a liter of stanozolol and see if you can get anything. Lol, Estanozolol plays only a minor role in Ben's big win. The rest is the interest of US Adidas and the Olympic committee, now publicly known as corrupters. No one is a Muggle to be deceived by these corrupt powers.

[@M-ps6ve]

best of luck in learning the English language, r/etard

[@Mr_Jingles_147]

Johnson gave ZERO fucks about his image, he actually admitted he's was juiced up BEFORE the event as he said "I'll do whatever it takes to win the gold" in a press conference. He wanted his place in history, and 30+ years later it is STILL the 100m everyone remembers.

[@shiv-vk4qo]

Still a great show👍

[@ladynada3435]

Ben was a gentle giant who trusted and was taken advantage of by crooked coaches. Always felt bad for him.

[@ZEUSDAZ]

Johnson always reminded me of a black Panther about to pounce on It's prey, he made the start look incredible, no'one exploded out of those blocks the way Ben did, yes the steroids certainly would have helped his speed and endurance around 50m but the start is all down to being gifted with high twitch fibres and an amazing reaction time, stick his start at the beginning of Bolts runs and who knows what times we would have seen.

[@peperley]

Viva Ben Jonhson

[@shiorisaitou4846]

1988 everyone in the Men's & Women's finals were doping.

[@newgenerationtechnology2930]

Easily a 9.74 or 9.72 if he doesn’t raise his arm up

[@Johnny_Thunder]

Loved the channel 7 commentary team back then.

[@giulioproietti5588]

Ben, il piu' forte di tutti

[@alessandroxcr]

Veramente... Pazzesco, se non avesse alzato il braccio avrebbe fatto ancora di meno e se avesse gareggiato in questa era con le nuove tecnologie e scarpini arriverebbe a 9.50

[@plasticity1000]

A great performance; but enabled. Usain Bolt is still the measure.

[@joaobrigido8089]

Nosso Robson Caetano da Silva em quinto. Maravilha!

[@memitath9975]

Ben johnson the great

[@ThanosX]

Was anybody not dopped in this race? :) But only Johnson took the blame ..and that sucks ..

[@smithmann5616]

Calvin Smith

[@JohnSmith-bn7bl]

the issue was that they picked who they chose to test. far from regulated. Ben was the scapegoat.

[@smithmann5616]

"Lewis is almost running out of his lane he's looking at Johnson so much." Lol "almost"?

[@خالدعبدالله-ث6س1ل]

He is areal champ...for ever..

[@nivan231]

The greatest sprinter..

[@gskessingerable]

The greatest cheater.

[@dkohlcom]

@@gskessingerable the greatest cheater was never get caught

[@gskessingerable]

@@dkohlcom Sure he was. That's why he was stripped of his win and gold medal.

[@earlhowardiii8277]

@@gskessingerable AMEN....Ben was the greatest Roider of all time

[@Djtmanga]

Ben Johnson is the best and i really love florence Griffith Joyner so much

[@Ray_eddi]

"9.79" back in 1988!!

[@pm7315]

Everyone was on the juice!! The gold medal should be given back to Ben Johnson.

[@jiyounlee9470]

Ben Johnson is the best

[@AleksAleksov454]

Ben Johnson fantastic mashin

[@shane-irish]

1988 wow i was 13

[@felixruiz7960]

Jhonson...the best.

[@bebobochin]

Nada mas porque se fue parando al último de la carrera sino el tiempo fuera menor y todavía estuviera vigente, quien este libre de drogas y alimentos alterados que tire la primera piedra... Ben Johnson el mejor de todos los 100 mts ....

[@aminuddinanuar]

THE TRUE IS THAT GIVE BACK BAN JOHNSON GOLD MEDAL 1988 🥇

[@laurentluca2366]

Ben Johnson in quel caso capro espiatorio di tutti i migliori centometristi in quel caso. Per me comunque resta il più forte a quei tempi altro che l'americano

[@winstonsanderson4865]

I love this female comontater

[@victorywu-shu422]

СУПЕР!!!

[@plasticity1000]

The yellow eyes and the strip tells the whole story!

[@phadley78tube]

Interesting, Lewis won the semi final with an amazing time of 9.97. In the final Lewis ran even better with a time of 9.92 but was still comfortably beaten by the Rocket Man's 9.79. 🚀

[@elnardowebster2842]

I was 9 and Ben was my hero, he will always be the 88 Gold medalist to me.

[@shane-irish]

He nearly missed out wow

[@annettemalaski1967]

Carl Lewis admitted taking cold meds. He was tested before and after the race. Carl was clean.Ben had been taking steroids for years! If Carl did touch the line, it is up to the offended runner to appeal!

[@theelf152]

Carl was NOT clean. His "B" sample taken after the event and re-tested found he had a new stimulant that was previous non-detectable. The hypocrisy of the guy is staggering !

[@M-ps6ve]

lewis was doped too, r/etard

[@IgorBudimski]

Ben punked him hard and forever

[@timw4369]

Carl is not silk he's someone who did peds got away with it and made sure his competition was disqualified . A real piece of work.

[@josepaulinogarciaperez7955]

Ben. Campeón 🥇

[@martinfiay8908]

Carl ,as good as he was , he never was a 9.7's runner who would struggle against Gay, Powell, Bolt , Gatlin & Blake

[@NebraskaGonvilleJones]

Yep you are right. However if you plonk them all in the mid 80s with the same background of the time I think you would find them all relatively even. Well except for maybe Bolt

[@alessandroxcr]

different technologies, shoes, running ground.

[@M-ps6ve]

all the people you named are steroids cheaters, r/etard

[@mrkipling2201]

Ben Johnson tested positive for Stanozolol. Even though he never took that particular steroid. Apparently the testing laboratory in Seoul was wide open, anyone could walk around in there. It's been said that his test was contaminated. Who knows??

[@simonedwards5564]

30 "Christie's got some work ta gooh"....what the ffffff lol

[@JamesSmith-py6ww]

Carl Lewis had the best form when he ran

[@justinjordan7711]

If it's the current rule of being disqualified from flying once, Ben Johnson will be disqualified from the semifinals.

[@OFFSHOREDOUG]

Ben, like Pantani, Lance, got removed. Graeme obree, Eddie the eagle all athletes that were not suppose to win.

[@earlhowardiii8277]

BEST COMMENT OF THE THREAD

[@daflyest16]

Hahahahah the tongue came out 😂😂😂

[@blessedthanksgiving457]

I love to watch Carl also.

[@riccardobadalone7964]

He destroyed Lewis, and Lewis has to live with that for the rest of his life

[@danielfisher6501]

Enormous shoulders. I can't think why

[@andersonarmstrong2650]

Some ppl are born with broad shoulders. Steroids do not change your skeletal frame, just the body's capacity to recover from extreme exertion.

[@bullboy13]

he lifted weights

[@paulburnett1180]

I can't stand everytime I hear Raelene say he throws both arms back! 🤯 He didn't Raelene and U as a sprinter should have realised this! He threw his left arm up and right arm back and the rest is history!!!! 🤷‍♂️

[@andersonarmstrong2650]

Love Ben Johnson as a Yard man. Can't stand Lewis as a B-man, seen!

[@blessedthanksgiving457]

Hope God doesn't feel that way about you. Black hate! Worst hate!

[@TUXMAN06]

@@blessedthanksgiving457 Batty bwoy Carl Lewis

[@sugewhitejacoby8654]

@@blessedthanksgiving457 is that what he meant by "b-man"? That's whats wrong with this world if that is what he meant! SHAMFUL

[@andersonarmstrong2650]

@@blessedthanksgiving457 Whatever God is, I'm at God's heart, Show where God condones, The battybwoy part.. So you're embarrassed, But don't be for me, Those white ppl praise, Never ran for me_ I'm expressing Black love, For those just like me, While those with self-hate, Choose live's alternate_ One judges one's unions, By union's fruit, No 'Blessed Thanksgiving's', From battybwoy route_ Don't like what I'm saying? Soul-search while you're praying, Only demons fear truth, From dis ya yard yout'...

[@andersonarmstrong2650]

@@TUXMAN06 We no lotion battybwoy, seen!

[@JamesSmith-py6ww]

Everyone took drugs......most as an aid to recover from injury, not to boost performance

[@MarcoAntonio-kk9su]

Ben Johnson is best…..

[@brazenzebra]

Ben woulda smoked Bolt too!! The most memorable 100m of all time!

[@steviesly7908]

YOU HAVE TO GIVE CARL HIS PROPS HE COULD RUN HE GOT THE GOLD TOO PROVE IT)11-22)

[@winstonsanderson4865]

Lewis ego got the best of him he wanted to win each qualified race and didn't have nothing left in the finals

[@BSEpicM]

Ben Johnson the best sprinter ever.

[@M-ps6ve]

you mean best cheater, r/etard

[@olliejoker1862]

Name a better Olympic commentator than Bruce McAvaney….

[@jcornwall6228]

Carl was a sore loser. Hey knew they were all on juice, just relax.

[@gabortoth5936]

How American athletes never banded for life when they catches for drug? Why Ben Johnson did? Discasting.

[@phoenixthedevourer1716]

Ouchhhhhh

[@13MikeTravels]

Ben came back a few years later

[@TheMrbc74]

every man except calvin either tested positive or was later found to have cheated, johnson was just a better cheater than the others

[@iamanisland]

Wouldn’t the best cheater not get caught cheating though ?

[@TheMrbc74]

@@iamanisland logically yes maybe I should of put better doper🤷‍♂️

[@shanegill5091]

A faster cheater. The best are still the best. Ain't that right Carl. 😉

[@jennyshaw7375]

I had to run barefoot as the track is too hot

[@Cerastes22]

Just watch the final in Slo Mo and count with me. 1. 2. 3. That’s how many times Carl Lewis stepped out of his lane while panicking. Don’t take my word for it - watch it yourself. Carl Lewis should have been DISQUALIFIED from the final for leaving his lane.

[@juangardea6783]

Everyone of these athletes were on ped's,because the( usa) was in charge of these event, they took the gold from Ben and gave it to lewis! If lewis had any honor he ,should had refused it!

[@chris7933]

Ben Johnson cheated, if not for steroids he would have got a bronze metal. He never got back to this so-called greatness without steroids.

[@memitath9975]

The medal should be returned to Ben johnson

[@blessedthanksgiving457]

The star; Carl Lewis.

[@simonecipriani2903]

Lewis il più dopato

[@presidentresident]

Everyones on steroids, including the great Bolt. Give Ben his place in history back.

[@M-ps6ve]

he never had a place, r/etard. nothing but a steroids cheater

[@marjorietillman6697]

This shows that winning at any cost isn’t worth it. It would be great if the IOC would make sure ALL athletes are tested randomly. There’s a country where even their coach was taking steroids. And the person hired to cleanup their testing program, said their athletes are seldom tested, then she was fired. So I feel bad for Sprinters like Shar’Carri who is tested randomly and regularly!

[@latoucheF7]

1 got caught, 1 did not.

[@daniloprepre.4358]

Red crimebuster nice

[@garciadidier8039]

Victory of doping!