0:00:02 > 0:00:05'There must be between 90,000 and 100,000 people in the stadium.
0:00:05 > 0:00:08'In fact, competitors have jammed into the aisles to watch the race.
0:00:11 > 0:00:16'The 1988 final of the Olympic 100 metres.'
0:00:16 > 0:00:18'Possibly the greatest field ever assembled
0:00:18 > 0:00:20'for the finals of an Olympics.'
0:00:21 > 0:00:24'Lane one, Da Silva of Brazil.
0:00:24 > 0:00:25'10.24 in the semi-final.'
0:00:25 > 0:00:27What a race!
0:00:27 > 0:00:30This is the race of the century.
0:00:30 > 0:00:34'Lane two, Ray Stewart, the bronze medallist in the world championship.'
0:00:34 > 0:00:35I was a warrior.
0:00:35 > 0:00:36When the gun go,
0:00:36 > 0:00:38catch me if you can.
0:00:38 > 0:00:41'Lane three, the reigning Olympic champion,
0:00:41 > 0:00:42'Carl Lewis.'
0:00:42 > 0:00:44If you make one mistake in the 100 metres, you lose.
0:00:44 > 0:00:48If you have a bad start, you have 99 yards to be pissed.
0:00:48 > 0:00:51'Linford Christie, he goes in lane number four.'
0:00:52 > 0:00:54That's the loneliest time.
0:00:54 > 0:00:56Then, I don't have a friend in the world.
0:00:56 > 0:00:59'Lane five, the former world record holder, Calvin Smith.'
0:00:59 > 0:01:01Athletes can see everything that is going on
0:01:01 > 0:01:05and they know more than the public will ever know.
0:01:05 > 0:01:09'Lane number six, from Canada, the number of one all time,
0:01:09 > 0:01:12'world champion, world record holder, Ben Johnson.'
0:01:12 > 0:01:17I just had some fear in me so I didn't want to fail.
0:01:17 > 0:01:21'Desai Williams, at 29, the oldest of the finalists.'
0:01:21 > 0:01:22You'll close your eyes
0:01:22 > 0:01:25and you'll just vision running that perfect race.
0:01:25 > 0:01:28'Lane number eight, he mustn't be forgotten, Dennis Mitchell.'
0:01:28 > 0:01:31It's just another competition, it's just another race.
0:01:31 > 0:01:33That's the way you have to think about it.
0:01:35 > 0:01:40He lets them go first time and Ben Johnson got a brilliant start.
0:01:40 > 0:01:44'It's Johnson away and clear. They can't catch him now.
0:01:44 > 0:01:47'And Lewis is not going to catch him. Johnson wins it.
0:01:47 > 0:01:48'Lewis second. Christie third.
0:01:48 > 0:01:51'And the world record has gone again.
0:01:51 > 0:01:55'And that is the greatest 100 metres the world has ever seen.'
0:02:06 > 0:02:09I've just been handed a piece of paper, here, that if it's right,
0:02:09 > 0:02:11it'll be the most dramatic story out of these Olympics,
0:02:11 > 0:02:12or perhaps any others.
0:02:12 > 0:02:16'It says, Ben Johnson of Canada has been caught taking drugs
0:02:16 > 0:02:18'and is expected to be stripped of his 100 metres gold medal
0:02:18 > 0:02:21'according to International Olympic Committee sources.
0:02:21 > 0:02:25'Johnson took anabolic steroids before his historic victory
0:02:25 > 0:02:27'over Carl Lewis on Saturday...'
0:02:27 > 0:02:35OK, 15,000 mails comes in between '88 and '93.
0:02:35 > 0:02:39They come from all over the world. Support, people who have sent money.
0:02:39 > 0:02:42Tons. These are not even open.
0:02:44 > 0:02:47"My name is Kelly. And I am ten years old.
0:02:47 > 0:02:51"I go to Silver Creek public school."
0:02:53 > 0:02:54A lot of stuff here.
0:02:54 > 0:02:59This is all my certificate and my trophies.
0:02:59 > 0:03:01Maybe over 1,000.
0:03:01 > 0:03:06'This was not the Olympic homecoming of Ben Jonson's dreams.'
0:03:06 > 0:03:10These are some personal licence plates that I have.
0:03:10 > 0:03:13Souvenir, I guess.
0:03:13 > 0:03:19In 1988, Ben Johnson failed a drug test at the Olympic games in Seoul.
0:03:19 > 0:03:20SHOUTING
0:03:21 > 0:03:26Just 48 hours earlier, he'd set a new world record in the 100 metres,
0:03:26 > 0:03:30won the gold medal, and defeated his archrival, Carl Lewis.
0:03:30 > 0:03:34- Is Ben Johnson our hero now? - ALL: No.
0:03:36 > 0:03:38In the years after Seoul,
0:03:38 > 0:03:42six of the eight finalists have been implicated in some form of controversy
0:03:42 > 0:03:44involving performance-enhancing drugs.
0:03:44 > 0:03:47And Johnson has long believed he was the fall guy in a sport
0:03:47 > 0:03:50where steroid use was endemic.
0:03:54 > 0:03:56When I look back on my life,
0:03:56 > 0:04:00and I see what people have done to me, I just laugh,
0:04:00 > 0:04:02because once I was very powerful
0:04:02 > 0:04:04and they were afraid of me.
0:04:15 > 0:04:18Falmouth was a small town in Jamaica.
0:04:18 > 0:04:22There was a disease going round that, here,
0:04:22 > 0:04:25all the kids that were born that year died.
0:04:26 > 0:04:28I have a brother that passed away.
0:04:28 > 0:04:32He would be 50-years-old now, if he was alive. His name was Norman.
0:04:34 > 0:04:37I was about three or four pounds. Very skinny.
0:04:38 > 0:04:42The doctors say to my mother, if this child save, he's a miracle.
0:04:42 > 0:04:45There's nothing we can do for him.
0:04:45 > 0:04:48And my mum prayed to the Lord, and said,
0:04:48 > 0:04:51"Lord, if you save my child, I will serve you until the day I die."
0:04:51 > 0:04:57So, when I was saved, I know that I was a special child.
0:04:57 > 0:05:02And God has saved me to do something good in this lifetime.
0:05:06 > 0:05:09When Ben was nine, his mother moved to Canada.
0:05:09 > 0:05:11He followed five years later,
0:05:11 > 0:05:15moving into her cramped apartment in suburban Toronto.
0:05:17 > 0:05:18When I came to Canada,
0:05:18 > 0:05:20a few bullies in the school tried to push me around,
0:05:20 > 0:05:23since I was the only black kid.
0:05:23 > 0:05:25I got a lot of beating.
0:05:25 > 0:05:27So I was getting very tired of it.
0:05:27 > 0:05:30I decided to challenge them for a race.
0:05:31 > 0:05:34100 metres. Everybody started gathering around.
0:05:34 > 0:05:35Friends calling friends.
0:05:35 > 0:05:38"Come over and look at this. Something's going on."
0:05:38 > 0:05:42And then we line up, the teacher came over, and started us.
0:05:45 > 0:05:48I beat him by, maybe, a metre and a half.
0:05:48 > 0:05:51From that time, he never said anything to me.
0:05:55 > 0:05:57Before you can judge me, walk a mile in my shoes.
0:05:57 > 0:06:02I was born in St Kitts, which is a small island in the Caribbean.
0:06:02 > 0:06:05We moved to Canada back in 1973.
0:06:05 > 0:06:08I pretty much cried every day that we came,
0:06:08 > 0:06:10not just because of the weather,
0:06:10 > 0:06:13you know, the culture shock and being a kid of colour.
0:06:15 > 0:06:17Every single person that looked at me,
0:06:17 > 0:06:19and said negative things to me,
0:06:19 > 0:06:22that I'd never amount to anything, never would accomplish anything,
0:06:22 > 0:06:25I used that as my driving force to make myself better.
0:06:26 > 0:06:29One of my buddies said to me, "Hey, if you join this track club,
0:06:29 > 0:06:30"you get free gear."
0:06:30 > 0:06:32I'm like, "Free gear? What you talking about?"
0:06:32 > 0:06:36And you get to travel in the summertime, and as a 16-year-old,
0:06:36 > 0:06:39I was working, cleaning the steps at Toronto General Hospital,
0:06:39 > 0:06:41and when he mentioned that to me,
0:06:41 > 0:06:43I said, "Oh, my God! I got to try this stuff."
0:06:43 > 0:06:45And I went out and whupped everybody's butts,
0:06:45 > 0:06:48so, that was the making.
0:06:48 > 0:06:51The club that Desai joined was the Scarborough Optimists,
0:06:51 > 0:06:55coached by ex-sprinter, Charlie Francis.
0:06:55 > 0:06:57He'd competed in the 1972 Olympic Games,
0:06:57 > 0:07:01and watched in embarrassment in 1976 as Canada became the only nation
0:07:01 > 0:07:05not to win a gold medal on home soil.
0:07:05 > 0:07:09He felt that young black athletes had the greatest potential
0:07:09 > 0:07:11to end Canada's medals drought.
0:07:11 > 0:07:15Charlie, actually ended up being one of my best friends.
0:07:15 > 0:07:19He was just an amazing human being. He would do anything for us.
0:07:19 > 0:07:22I think he would even buy vitamins
0:07:22 > 0:07:23for a lot of these guys
0:07:23 > 0:07:25out of his own pocket.
0:07:25 > 0:07:27Charlie, basically, would give you
0:07:27 > 0:07:28the last shirt on his back.
0:07:28 > 0:07:34The youngest and least promising of his recruits was Ben.
0:07:34 > 0:07:37Desai Williams will undoubtedly be challenged in this final
0:07:37 > 0:07:38by Ben Johnson.
0:07:38 > 0:07:41I used to crush him, each and every single day.
0:07:41 > 0:07:43Desai Williams appeared to be the winner.
0:07:43 > 0:07:46And to see where he went in the span of a few years,
0:07:46 > 0:07:47you know, was unheard of.
0:07:47 > 0:07:51I just get every knowledge from him that he give to me.
0:07:51 > 0:07:55I listened to what he says and just do it.
0:07:55 > 0:07:57And some of the guys, all the guys said to me,
0:07:57 > 0:08:01"Boy, I can imagine when you put this race together, you going to be awesome.
0:08:01 > 0:08:04"You get out of those blocks so quickly, man. It's amazing."
0:08:07 > 0:08:10He literally just jumped out of the blocks and started running.
0:08:10 > 0:08:12That was just his thing.
0:08:12 > 0:08:14And it was so effective that Charlie didn't change it.
0:08:15 > 0:08:19Charlie was a part of me that was very close from since I was 14,
0:08:19 > 0:08:24so we became very close as a son...and father, yeah.
0:08:30 > 0:08:33People, they think, "Oh, he must've hated Ben."
0:08:33 > 0:08:36I was like, no, no, I got it. I didn't have a problem with Ben.
0:08:38 > 0:08:40It was a great story,
0:08:40 > 0:08:42this guy from a small country,
0:08:42 > 0:08:44doesn't speak well, he's really shy, and all of this,
0:08:44 > 0:08:48and then the opposite side, this guy from the big, bad USA. I come in.
0:08:50 > 0:08:52And I understood that the Canadians were like,
0:08:52 > 0:08:54"I hate that Lewis. Kill him!"
0:08:54 > 0:08:57You know, I got it. And I was like, "I love you too."
0:09:00 > 0:09:03Give him a hand, ladies and gentlemen. Carl Lewis.
0:09:03 > 0:09:06I always wanted to be a star in track.
0:09:06 > 0:09:09When I came down to Houston, I really came here
0:09:09 > 0:09:12to get a degree in Carl Lewis. You know.
0:09:12 > 0:09:16'How about a big hand for our competitors in the girls' high jump.'
0:09:16 > 0:09:19At the time, you know, track was not really making a lot of money,
0:09:19 > 0:09:21you know, the attitude was
0:09:21 > 0:09:24they had a chance to jump for the United States in the Olympic Games
0:09:24 > 0:09:26and put on the USA uniform. That should be enough.
0:09:26 > 0:09:29Well, for Carl, that wasn't enough.
0:09:29 > 0:09:31I met with the coach Tellez and I'll never forget him.
0:09:31 > 0:09:33My first meeting, I said
0:09:33 > 0:09:35I want to be a millionaire, I never want a real job.
0:09:35 > 0:09:39I said, "Don't worry about that, Carl. Don't worry about the money.
0:09:39 > 0:09:43"Just do your job. That'll all take care of itself."
0:09:43 > 0:09:46You know, let's go to work. We have a lot of work to do.
0:09:46 > 0:09:49And I said, don't worry about anybody else in the race.
0:09:49 > 0:09:51Just worry about what you're doing.
0:09:51 > 0:09:53If they're ahead of you, don't worry.
0:09:53 > 0:09:55Just keep accelerating
0:09:55 > 0:09:58and accelerate through 60 to 70 metres in the race.
0:09:58 > 0:10:00They'll come back to you at the end, I guarantee you.
0:10:00 > 0:10:06He just came back at the last five metres and just went right past everybody.
0:10:06 > 0:10:09A human being can run full speed ten yards.
0:10:09 > 0:10:13You're spending 90 metres speeding up and slowing down.
0:10:16 > 0:10:19They thought that if they got out faster,
0:10:19 > 0:10:20they'd beat him at the end,
0:10:20 > 0:10:22but they decelerate terribly at the end.
0:10:22 > 0:10:26'Oh, magnificent Carl Lewis, magnificent.'
0:10:26 > 0:10:31It got to the point where it wasn't even hard for him to beat people.
0:10:34 > 0:10:37This is your first set, right? OK, go ahead.
0:10:39 > 0:10:43Tom asked me if Carl could join the Santa Monica Track Club.
0:10:43 > 0:10:45He said he will be perfect.
0:10:45 > 0:10:49He'll do anything you tell him and he's a great talent.
0:10:49 > 0:10:51Once I saw what he was like,
0:10:51 > 0:10:53I did everything I could
0:10:53 > 0:10:57to maximise the money that he made in track and field.
0:10:57 > 0:10:59I have 16 of these books.
0:11:00 > 0:11:02I can just open up arbitrarily.
0:11:02 > 0:11:06Every time you see Carl, he's showing excitement,
0:11:06 > 0:11:09and that was one of his high points.
0:11:09 > 0:11:11Yes!
0:11:11 > 0:11:14When I first met him, he was shy.
0:11:14 > 0:11:18If we were talking and somebody else came into the room, he would leave.
0:11:18 > 0:11:20He took acting class. He took speech class.
0:11:20 > 0:11:24I get all types of letter, mostly just encouragement, people you want autographs,
0:11:24 > 0:11:26and I try to send everyone back.
0:11:26 > 0:11:27I had pen pals in every town.
0:11:27 > 0:11:30"Dear Carl, you are my favourite track star."
0:11:30 > 0:11:33People loved Carl.
0:11:33 > 0:11:35I'd do store visits, all this staff.
0:11:35 > 0:11:38- What was Lewis like off the track? - A little bit cocky, you know.
0:11:38 > 0:11:42Show off, but...that's the way Americans are.
0:11:42 > 0:11:46'Less lucrative, but just as important is his music career.'
0:11:46 > 0:11:49# I know that you know... #
0:11:49 > 0:11:53Yes, he did some singing. In fact I have some of the CDs.
0:11:55 > 0:11:56- What are they like?- Very good.
0:11:56 > 0:11:59# Let's all work together
0:11:59 > 0:12:03# You can't win on your own, no... #
0:12:03 > 0:12:04He can't sing.
0:12:04 > 0:12:08# Make up your mind, join in while you still can
0:12:08 > 0:12:10# Yeah... #
0:12:10 > 0:12:11He's a runner. Stick to that.
0:12:13 > 0:12:16I've frequently used the Michael Jackson analogy
0:12:16 > 0:12:18and I hope he's worth as much as Michael Jackson.
0:12:18 > 0:12:21Did I say that?
0:12:24 > 0:12:28You know, I stick to my guns and my 100 metres and my event,
0:12:28 > 0:12:30and that was all I ever dream of doing.
0:12:30 > 0:12:32Just to run.
0:12:32 > 0:12:34He just wasn't that good.
0:12:34 > 0:12:35You know, I'm not trying to be mean,
0:12:35 > 0:12:37but he was probably good for his country,
0:12:37 > 0:12:39or whatever, but the reality, Ben was, kind of,
0:12:39 > 0:12:41one of those guys we would not worry about,
0:12:41 > 0:12:43because he didn't have the core talent.
0:12:47 > 0:12:52But it wasn't just Lewis that Ben was trying to catch.
0:12:52 > 0:12:54In 1979, the Canadians were invited
0:12:54 > 0:12:58to a track and field dual meeting with East Germany...
0:12:58 > 0:13:00East Germany win the World Championship.
0:13:00 > 0:13:04..where they ran into Staatsplan 1425,
0:13:04 > 0:13:07the East German's state-controlled doping policy.
0:13:07 > 0:13:09Kept secret from the public,
0:13:09 > 0:13:12it was becoming less of a secret among the athletics fraternity.
0:13:15 > 0:13:18In that dual meet, I mean, I saw Marlies Gohr
0:13:18 > 0:13:21and Marita Koch, and Marita ran 21.71
0:13:21 > 0:13:24and broke the world record in the 200 metres.
0:13:24 > 0:13:26'Medical student.'
0:13:26 > 0:13:27And I remember Charlie saying,
0:13:27 > 0:13:30you know, God, they were all on performance-enhancing drugs.
0:13:30 > 0:13:32And I'm thinking, oh, my God,
0:13:32 > 0:13:35if this is what my competitors are doing,
0:13:35 > 0:13:36then I have to do this, too.
0:13:39 > 0:13:43Sooner or later, your ability to succeed on natural talent runs out
0:13:43 > 0:13:45when you run against a chemical barrier.
0:13:45 > 0:13:46The question became, you know,
0:13:46 > 0:13:48do you take drugs and try to win,
0:13:48 > 0:13:50or do you content yourself
0:13:50 > 0:13:51with losing for ever
0:13:51 > 0:13:53by staying away from them?
0:13:53 > 0:13:57That's where Charlie approached me and decided to do his own way.
0:13:57 > 0:14:01I didn't tell my mother because if I told my mother, I wouldn't have done it. She wouldn't let me.
0:14:01 > 0:14:03And I would never disappoint her,
0:14:03 > 0:14:07so I think about it for about three weeks before I say yes.
0:14:07 > 0:14:11I said, why should I train hard, doing it clean,
0:14:11 > 0:14:14and then these other guys are not clean?
0:14:22 > 0:14:25It was a dilemma every runner in the Seoul final
0:14:25 > 0:14:28would have to confront at some point in their career.
0:14:30 > 0:14:32I decided to not take it and lose.
0:14:33 > 0:14:40Because, this is a matter of character, dignity.
0:14:40 > 0:14:44I never took anything, but those guys, during the '80s,
0:14:44 > 0:14:47they must have had something.
0:14:47 > 0:14:50I just had to think about
0:14:50 > 0:14:51how hard it was for me
0:14:51 > 0:14:54to be in practice every day
0:14:54 > 0:14:58and to run ten flat or ten point something,
0:14:58 > 0:15:00and those guys ran it easily.
0:15:01 > 0:15:03That's a question that I need the answer for.
0:15:03 > 0:15:07Got to get up, baby! Upper leg, come on!
0:15:07 > 0:15:09Keep working, baby!
0:15:09 > 0:15:11Come on, man, keep going!
0:15:11 > 0:15:12Whoo!
0:15:12 > 0:15:14Did you contemplate that?
0:15:14 > 0:15:17- Contemplating what?- Taking.- No.
0:15:17 > 0:15:21No! I mean, there was no reason to.
0:15:21 > 0:15:23Come on, guys.
0:15:23 > 0:15:26'I never felt that I needed to do anything like that.'
0:15:26 > 0:15:29So, it was "no".
0:15:33 > 0:15:35I signed a charter,
0:15:35 > 0:15:36coming into the sport,
0:15:36 > 0:15:37and abide by the rules,
0:15:37 > 0:15:39and I did abide by the rules.
0:15:42 > 0:15:43I trained hard,
0:15:43 > 0:15:45and for me, hard work and dedication pays off.
0:15:45 > 0:15:47There's no shortcuts to it, whatsoever,
0:15:47 > 0:15:49and I tell that to my athletes all the time.
0:15:53 > 0:15:55The gossip is always there.
0:15:55 > 0:15:56It never change.
0:15:56 > 0:15:58I haven't done anything.
0:15:58 > 0:15:59Nothing.
0:15:59 > 0:16:02Because for all of my career running track and field,
0:16:02 > 0:16:05nobody ever test me positive, for nothing.
0:16:05 > 0:16:08Good job.
0:16:09 > 0:16:11Was there never even a conversation
0:16:11 > 0:16:13of should we look into going down that route?
0:16:13 > 0:16:17- Of going down that road that Ben was taking?- Are you kidding?
0:16:17 > 0:16:19No, absolutely not!
0:16:19 > 0:16:22I mean, what's the point in it? As a coach, I wouldn't want to do that.
0:16:22 > 0:16:24You're not a coach any more!
0:16:24 > 0:16:26You have no clue.
0:16:26 > 0:16:30Most of the athletes choose not to take drugs.
0:16:30 > 0:16:32Knees up! Knees up! Knees up!
0:16:32 > 0:16:35You work every single day, five, six days a week,
0:16:35 > 0:16:39you're going to beat yourself into the ground.
0:16:39 > 0:16:40It's tough.
0:16:40 > 0:16:44It's a sacrifice that every track person makes
0:16:44 > 0:16:47with no guarantee. None.
0:16:48 > 0:16:51I knew, with certain athletes, over a period of time,
0:16:51 > 0:16:53how fast they had developed.
0:16:53 > 0:16:56And you can see the body changes,
0:16:56 > 0:17:00and that's when you know that something is not right.
0:17:00 > 0:17:01Do you even suspect your own guys?
0:17:04 > 0:17:06I'm not going to say I suspect them,
0:17:06 > 0:17:08but I say 80%...
0:17:09 > 0:17:12..of the athletes were on drugs during that time.
0:17:13 > 0:17:17I look at it as an era of big-time drugs.
0:17:17 > 0:17:20There were so many athletes on drugs.
0:17:20 > 0:17:26You always think, oh, well, if I took drugs, I could do this,
0:17:26 > 0:17:29but, that was about as far as it went with me.
0:17:29 > 0:17:32This is one of those things I just didn't want to do.
0:17:32 > 0:17:36I know that, without drugs, it was not that I could not beat them,
0:17:36 > 0:17:40but it was going to be harder to beat them.
0:17:42 > 0:17:45In 1983, the US Olympic Committee decided
0:17:45 > 0:17:47to establish the facts for themselves.
0:17:48 > 0:17:52They were staging the Games in Los Angeles the following summer,
0:17:52 > 0:17:56and planning drugs testing on an unprecedented scale.
0:17:57 > 0:17:59They did not want any embarrassments.
0:17:59 > 0:18:02One of my first directives
0:18:02 > 0:18:04was from Colonel F Don Miller,
0:18:04 > 0:18:07who was the President of the Olympic Committee, who said,
0:18:07 > 0:18:08"I don't want to see
0:18:08 > 0:18:10"an American athlete
0:18:10 > 0:18:12"positive in an Olympic Games.
0:18:14 > 0:18:15"Let's see what we've got here.
0:18:15 > 0:18:17"Do we have just a minor problem
0:18:17 > 0:18:20"or do we have a huge problem?"
0:18:20 > 0:18:24A lot of the testing was done by people who were very loyal to me.
0:18:24 > 0:18:30Mainly, my family. I remember sending my wife to a competition,
0:18:30 > 0:18:34and the next morning, Dr Catlin, who was the head of the UCLA laboratory,
0:18:34 > 0:18:37where we sent our urines to be analysed,
0:18:37 > 0:18:40would call me up and would say,
0:18:40 > 0:18:45"Bob, we have 50 samples of urine, here, and they all look like water!"
0:18:45 > 0:18:49That's where we found the drug diuretic
0:18:49 > 0:18:52that the athletes were using that would thin the urine out,
0:18:52 > 0:18:57so there was nothing but water and it would block our detection.
0:18:58 > 0:19:02Dr Voy ran an educational testing programme for six months.
0:19:02 > 0:19:05The purpose was to establish the extent of drug use
0:19:05 > 0:19:07among American athletes.
0:19:07 > 0:19:11No penalties were handed to those testing positive.
0:19:12 > 0:19:15And they took full advantage of the amnesty.
0:19:15 > 0:19:18Once I got into that programme,
0:19:18 > 0:19:21I realised what the education was.
0:19:21 > 0:19:23It was to allow the athletes
0:19:23 > 0:19:26to figure out when they could take their drugs
0:19:26 > 0:19:28and how long it would take
0:19:28 > 0:19:31to clear the drugs from their body,
0:19:31 > 0:19:33and I was just aiding and abetting them.
0:19:33 > 0:19:36Well, we did have a problem.
0:19:36 > 0:19:41What they needed to do to be successful, it's a very simple formula.
0:19:41 > 0:19:42Win medals.
0:19:45 > 0:19:47'What a stunning effect.'
0:19:49 > 0:19:53No athlete was going for greater glory than Carl Lewis,
0:19:53 > 0:19:55the first man since Jesse Owens
0:19:55 > 0:19:58to attempt four track and field gold medals.
0:20:00 > 0:20:03It was 11 races and two days of jumping.
0:20:03 > 0:20:06And in my off day I was getting a haircut,
0:20:06 > 0:20:10and the do had to be perfect because everything that I thought was...
0:20:10 > 0:20:11I just wanted to be flawless.
0:20:11 > 0:20:15I even went to the company and said I want new uniform for every day.
0:20:15 > 0:20:18I don't have to wash it. I don't want it to fade.
0:20:18 > 0:20:23'Lewis in seven. And we got a false start. It looked like Ben Johnson.'
0:20:23 > 0:20:26Actually, in '84, I didn't even know who Ben Johnson was.
0:20:26 > 0:20:28I wasn't worried about Ben Johnson. I was worried about Carl.
0:20:28 > 0:20:32'From the start, Lewis in seven,
0:20:32 > 0:20:34'Graddy off to a great start.
0:20:34 > 0:20:35'Here comes Lewis. He wins it!
0:20:35 > 0:20:39'Graddy is second. I think Ben Johnson got third.'
0:20:39 > 0:20:42The next day's long jump...
0:20:45 > 0:20:48..and then the next day is the 200.
0:20:48 > 0:20:50'And as the gold, and it's a 1-2-3 American sweep
0:20:50 > 0:20:52'in the 200 metres
0:20:52 > 0:20:54'Carl is on his way to gold medal number four,
0:20:54 > 0:20:57'Carl Lewis winning it by almost 15 metres.'
0:21:06 > 0:21:11The heaviest testing was in the last couple of days.
0:21:11 > 0:21:14That's when all the big championships were going on
0:21:14 > 0:21:16and all the track and field finals.
0:21:18 > 0:21:22And we were seeing positives coming all over the place.
0:21:22 > 0:21:26Somehow or other, some of our results were lost.
0:21:26 > 0:21:30Some number of cases just never saw the light of day.
0:21:30 > 0:21:36And there is still a dispute today where they went.
0:21:40 > 0:21:42Not only had results gone missing,
0:21:42 > 0:21:44but there was now a new substance on the scene.
0:21:44 > 0:21:46It wasn't detectable at all.
0:21:48 > 0:21:51The 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games
0:21:51 > 0:21:54acquired the reputation
0:21:54 > 0:21:57as the growth hormone games.
0:21:57 > 0:22:02There are athletes who have abused human growth hormone
0:22:02 > 0:22:06and who have seen the jaw grow out.
0:22:06 > 0:22:11Mature adult athletes wearing braces on their teeth
0:22:11 > 0:22:15became stigmatum of growth hormone use.
0:22:15 > 0:22:19I have no idea whether every case of braces
0:22:19 > 0:22:25in 25- or 30-, 35-year-old person involves growth hormone.
0:22:25 > 0:22:26In fact, I know it doesn't.
0:22:26 > 0:22:32But we encounter the limits of what we can know.
0:22:34 > 0:22:38The main supplier in North America was Robert Kerr,
0:22:38 > 0:22:41a doctor based in Los Angeles.
0:22:41 > 0:22:44That was the place to go to get what you need.
0:22:44 > 0:22:47I flew down there and he had the pharmacy next door.
0:22:47 > 0:22:50He was supplying tons and tons of athletes.
0:22:50 > 0:22:56You'd be surprised who was going to see him to get growth hormone.
0:22:56 > 0:23:00To acquire human growth hormone
0:23:00 > 0:23:06before 1986, you have to go into a cadaver and extract it.
0:23:06 > 0:23:09- Did that not, sort of, roll your eyes?- No.
0:23:09 > 0:23:13No, because, as I said, I, you know, if I'm going,
0:23:13 > 0:23:15why wouldn't everybody else be going?
0:23:15 > 0:23:19'Big surprise in that race was Ben Johnson from Canada,
0:23:19 > 0:23:22'the Canadian National Champion, he got up to third place...'
0:23:22 > 0:23:25This is all my medals over the years.
0:23:25 > 0:23:28This is the '84 Olympic Games bronze in the 100 metres.
0:23:28 > 0:23:29And the ribbon goes with it.
0:23:29 > 0:23:31'There it is again in super slow-mo.'
0:23:34 > 0:23:37I sit down in my basement in my house
0:23:37 > 0:23:39and study that tape for almost an entire day.
0:23:39 > 0:23:42'Carl Lewis, as you can see when he turns on the overdrive,
0:23:42 > 0:23:44'it's all over.'
0:23:44 > 0:23:48I got the speed, I got the blocks, but the strength wasn't there.
0:23:48 > 0:23:53'Lewis, Graddy, and Johnson. Finishing 1-2-3.'
0:23:53 > 0:23:56Johnson needed to increase his speed endurance
0:23:56 > 0:23:58to compete with Lewis.
0:23:58 > 0:23:59'Ben Johnson gets the bronze.'
0:23:59 > 0:24:03So Charlie Francis introduced Jamie Astaphan to the camp -
0:24:03 > 0:24:08a Toronto-based doctor already supplying steroids to other athletes.
0:24:08 > 0:24:10We trusted him.
0:24:10 > 0:24:12Here was a doctor who was willing to give you what you need.
0:24:12 > 0:24:16You don't have to go on the black market to get it.
0:24:16 > 0:24:20We go once a week and get injections.
0:24:20 > 0:24:23Jamie said, oh, you know, he has this new drug called Estragol
0:24:23 > 0:24:25and it was what the East Germans were taking.
0:24:25 > 0:24:28As a young kid, you know, I was young in the business,
0:24:28 > 0:24:32and he was a doctor and he says, if you don't take it, you won't make it.
0:24:35 > 0:24:39The training is unbelievable on anabolic steroids.
0:24:39 > 0:24:44You can lift your max twice a day while you're on the drugs,
0:24:44 > 0:24:49where you would normally not be able to do it once but every three days.
0:24:51 > 0:24:55You'll sit down in your house watching us run on TV,
0:24:55 > 0:24:56you don't see the hard work.
0:24:56 > 0:24:59We push the human body beyond the limits.
0:24:59 > 0:25:03If I give you one of my workouts you'll understand what I'm talking about.
0:25:05 > 0:25:08And it was painful. But I know that I need this.
0:25:08 > 0:25:10Bigger muscles,
0:25:10 > 0:25:14increasing strength, increasing speed.
0:25:14 > 0:25:18Charlie would give me a test run to see if it's improving,
0:25:18 > 0:25:23and to know if we're on schedule to beating Carl Lewis next year.
0:25:25 > 0:25:27I wanted to be the fastest man in the world.
0:25:27 > 0:25:31The drugs took 28 days to clear the body.
0:25:31 > 0:25:34And with no out-of-competition testing,
0:25:34 > 0:25:35avoiding a positive test
0:25:35 > 0:25:38required little more than looking at a calendar.
0:25:38 > 0:25:41Sufficiently prepared in 1985,
0:25:41 > 0:25:45Ben embarked on the European outdoor season.
0:25:45 > 0:25:48The people coming to watch, they want to be entertained,
0:25:48 > 0:25:52they want to see a fast time, they don't care how you get there.
0:25:53 > 0:25:57It was like a circus. Everybody move together. We go to Zurich.
0:25:57 > 0:25:59And then from Zurich to Cologne, then from Cologne to London,
0:25:59 > 0:26:02then from London to Rieti, from Rieti to Rome.
0:26:02 > 0:26:06I spent a lot of time with Ben, Desai, you know,
0:26:06 > 0:26:08guys who are your main rivals.
0:26:08 > 0:26:09We just had a laugh.
0:26:09 > 0:26:11The circuit is good. I missed that circuit.
0:26:14 > 0:26:15The Americans called it
0:26:15 > 0:26:17"the Olympics in one night".
0:26:18 > 0:26:21The meet was always packed
0:26:21 > 0:26:23with top athletes.
0:26:23 > 0:26:27It was sort of like the championships outside the championships.
0:26:27 > 0:26:28The atmosphere was second to none.
0:26:28 > 0:26:29'Linford Christie.'
0:26:31 > 0:26:33It was a small track. The crowd were just lovely.
0:26:33 > 0:26:38They call out your name, you know, it was just a mad atmosphere.
0:26:38 > 0:26:41And, of course, the big selling point was Carl.
0:26:41 > 0:26:44We had the most money, you know, and like I say all the time,
0:26:44 > 0:26:48Papa didn't work at the plant, so, you know,
0:26:48 > 0:26:50he followed where the dollars were a lot of times.
0:26:50 > 0:26:55Give me a number that you think's the most any athlete ever made in a meet
0:26:55 > 0:26:59and I will tell you if it's true or false, that's all I will say.
0:26:59 > 0:27:01Half a million dollars.
0:27:01 > 0:27:02Not even close.
0:27:02 > 0:27:06Of course, then, the promoters didn't want to pay the same amount
0:27:06 > 0:27:09as they were paying Carl when they were on top.
0:27:09 > 0:27:12A lot of guys resented that stuff, because all the other plebes
0:27:12 > 0:27:16stayed together, we hung out together, we had fun together.
0:27:16 > 0:27:19So, every time there's stuff on the track,
0:27:19 > 0:27:20everybody wanted to beat the hell out of Carl.
0:27:20 > 0:27:23'Calvin Smith got away well in the middle
0:27:23 > 0:27:26'and Lewis is down a little bit at the moment.
0:27:26 > 0:27:30'It's Ben Johnson at the moment. It's Ben Johnson on the near side.
0:27:30 > 0:27:31'Johnson!
0:27:31 > 0:27:33'It was Smith and Johnson.'
0:27:33 > 0:27:35For the first time in nine races,
0:27:35 > 0:27:38Carl Lewis had been beaten by Ben Johnson.
0:27:38 > 0:27:41He had the speed endurance to finish.
0:27:41 > 0:27:44I think that was Carl's biggest problem.
0:27:44 > 0:27:48Because here comes a guy who would out-start you and you couldn't catch him.
0:27:49 > 0:27:51'Lewis had a good start, so too did Ben Johnson.'
0:27:51 > 0:27:54He was able to get under Carl Lewis's skin
0:27:54 > 0:27:55by doing nothing more
0:27:55 > 0:27:58than beating him on a regular basis.
0:27:58 > 0:28:00'Johnson's going to win it, Lewis is nowhere.'
0:28:03 > 0:28:05A lot of countries liked it.
0:28:05 > 0:28:07The crowds would chant his name,
0:28:07 > 0:28:10they would rush out of the stands to get him,
0:28:10 > 0:28:12he was mobbed wherever he went.
0:28:12 > 0:28:13And when Canadians saw that,
0:28:13 > 0:28:16that really hit home that this guy is special.
0:28:16 > 0:28:21He was also a bit of a charismatic chap for someone who was so quiet.
0:28:21 > 0:28:24He was followed by armies of women.
0:28:26 > 0:28:29He had this something and it was pretty impressive.
0:28:31 > 0:28:34The thing about Ben Johnson winning,
0:28:34 > 0:28:38it created a competition that the press wrote about.
0:28:40 > 0:28:44It was the best rivalry, just like Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier.
0:28:44 > 0:28:46That raises the value of both athletes.
0:28:46 > 0:28:48Those are things that make sports.
0:28:48 > 0:28:52Those are things that people love, that people remember and cherish.
0:28:52 > 0:28:54It was perfect! Are you kidding me?
0:28:55 > 0:28:58But as his losing streak stretched into 1987,
0:28:58 > 0:29:02there were signs that Lewis was feeling the strain
0:29:02 > 0:29:04of constantly coming second best.
0:29:04 > 0:29:07We met in Spain, I beat him by close.
0:29:07 > 0:29:09I ran 10.06 he ran 10.07,
0:29:09 > 0:29:12but just going crazy like he won the race
0:29:12 > 0:29:15and the meet was around him, and he just carry on.
0:29:15 > 0:29:17You know what?
0:29:17 > 0:29:19In Rome you won't be this close.
0:29:21 > 0:29:26'All the teasing and taunting are over. This is it.
0:29:26 > 0:29:29'This is where we find out who the world's fastest human is.'
0:29:29 > 0:29:32I'm shaking your hand, saying good luck, with my heart,
0:29:32 > 0:29:35and I'm saying, I'm going to kick your ass, with my eyes.
0:29:35 > 0:29:36I won't look in nobody's eyes.
0:29:39 > 0:29:42You go down, come to your mark, get in your blocks.
0:29:42 > 0:29:43And you settle in.
0:29:43 > 0:29:45And then I clear my mind.
0:29:48 > 0:29:50And the time has come to show the world
0:29:50 > 0:29:52who the best sprinter is.
0:29:53 > 0:29:56That silence goes there, and then they say "set".
0:29:58 > 0:30:00And I stay in that silence.
0:30:02 > 0:30:04And then, bang.
0:30:05 > 0:30:07COMMENTATOR: 'And it's a fair start.
0:30:07 > 0:30:09'It's Ben Johnson who is out, and Ben Johnson is two metres,
0:30:09 > 0:30:12'and Carl Lewis...and Ben Johnson's going to run away with it!
0:30:12 > 0:30:13'Lewis cannot catch him!
0:30:13 > 0:30:15'Ben Johnson of Canada!
0:30:15 > 0:30:18'A 9.84!
0:30:18 > 0:30:21'Unbelievable!
0:30:21 > 0:30:23'You gotta love it!
0:30:23 > 0:30:28'A world record! 'The wind is OK! Whoo!'
0:30:28 > 0:30:31When I crossed the line in '87,
0:30:31 > 0:30:34it was kind of like, "Whatever."
0:30:34 > 0:30:37COMMENTATOR: 'And Carl Lewis went to congratulate Ben Johnson.'
0:30:37 > 0:30:40It look like he was trying to congratulate me,
0:30:40 > 0:30:42but he said to me, "You false started."
0:30:42 > 0:30:45COMMENTATOR: 'Carl really showed class by doing this.'
0:30:47 > 0:30:50And I said, "No." And just walked away.
0:30:51 > 0:30:53LEWIS: 'This is ridiculous.
0:30:53 > 0:30:54'In front of the whole world.
0:30:54 > 0:30:57'We know the guy's doing drugs, he's big as a house.'
0:30:57 > 0:30:59In the World Championship, he false starts, they don't call that back.
0:30:59 > 0:31:01You've got to be kidding me! It's ridiculous!
0:31:01 > 0:31:04JOHNSON: He always has some type of excuse,
0:31:04 > 0:31:06why he can't admit that someone else has beaten him.
0:31:06 > 0:31:09Whatever. I was so, "Whatever."
0:31:09 > 0:31:12That word didn't even exist in our mind like we know now.
0:31:12 > 0:31:16I didn't even know how to explain it, but I was just like, "Whatever."
0:31:16 > 0:31:19INTERVIEWER: The good news is you got an American record out of it.
0:31:19 > 0:31:22Well, hopefully, and the one thing we know is that we have the Olympics.
0:31:22 > 0:31:23And that's my domain.
0:31:23 > 0:31:25Johnson, a couple of weeks ago, you said that you thought
0:31:25 > 0:31:28if you ran the perfect race, you can run 9.85.
0:31:28 > 0:31:31- You just ran 9.83. - Well, I'm pleased with my time.
0:31:31 > 0:31:32I don't talk bullshit, though.
0:31:32 > 0:31:35Whenever I know I'm running, I tell you if I'll win or not.
0:31:35 > 0:31:39- ANNOUNCER: 'Ben Johnson!' - CROWD ROARS
0:31:39 > 0:31:42It doesn't matter if you're 19th place and on drugs,
0:31:42 > 0:31:44because you're not affecting anything.
0:31:44 > 0:31:45And so I felt I had to speak out.
0:31:45 > 0:31:49And that's when I went to London, and I spoke out.
0:31:49 > 0:31:52People are in competitions on drugs, and not getting caught.
0:31:52 > 0:31:54And Charlie and the group dealt with it by saying,
0:31:54 > 0:31:59"Well, we're using a vitamin B12 protocol.
0:31:59 > 0:32:01"That's where the injections are."
0:32:01 > 0:32:02Deny, deny, deny.
0:32:02 > 0:32:05"Are you taking steroids?" "No, I'm not. I never did."
0:32:05 > 0:32:08We know many athletes are on drugs, and there are many athletes
0:32:08 > 0:32:10that are afraid to address the drug problem.
0:32:10 > 0:32:12And that wasn't right. As a man.
0:32:12 > 0:32:15Everyone says, "He says all these gold medallists in Rome were on drugs."
0:32:15 > 0:32:16They were.
0:32:16 > 0:32:20When he won four gold medals, I didn't say, "Lewis is using performance-enhancing..."
0:32:20 > 0:32:24- INTERVIEWER: All of them?- No, it's not all of them. That's not true.
0:32:24 > 0:32:27If you look at pictures of Carl, and I have hundreds of them
0:32:27 > 0:32:30right in my closet, you look at his eyes,
0:32:30 > 0:32:34he is not taking drugs, and he has never taken drugs.
0:32:34 > 0:32:36Ben Johnson.
0:32:36 > 0:32:39APPLAUSE AND CHEERING
0:32:39 > 0:32:42'Supporters lined the parade route.'
0:32:42 > 0:32:46'If he was a star before Rome, it exploded after Rome.
0:32:46 > 0:32:48'Then the contracts came out.'
0:32:48 > 0:32:52You know, we'd never heard of Diadora. Suddenly,
0:32:52 > 0:32:55- Diadora was everywhere. - "Ben, this is what happens.
0:32:55 > 0:32:57"This is how much they want to pay."
0:32:57 > 0:33:01'He was hanging out with Prince Albert of Monte Carlo,'
0:33:01 > 0:33:03and all kinds of celebrities.
0:33:03 > 0:33:05ANNOUNCER: 'Toronto has declared this Ben Johnson Day.'
0:33:05 > 0:33:07He was huge.
0:33:09 > 0:33:11But as the offers rolled in,
0:33:11 > 0:33:15it soon became clear that Ben's team was far from
0:33:15 > 0:33:17the well-oiled machine operated by Joe Douglas.
0:33:17 > 0:33:19'I remember being in Monte Carlo
0:33:19 > 0:33:23'and a local TV crew went over to talk to him.'
0:33:23 > 0:33:25And the cameraman from the Monte Carlo crew,
0:33:25 > 0:33:29he reached into his pocket, pulls out a wad of bills,
0:33:29 > 0:33:30and hands them to Charlie.
0:33:30 > 0:33:33Then does the interview, and Charlie wanders over.
0:33:33 > 0:33:35And I said, "Well, what happened there?"
0:33:35 > 0:33:37And he said, "Well, you know, they have to pay
0:33:37 > 0:33:38"if they want to have Ben."
0:33:38 > 0:33:41And Charlie pulled out a roll of American bills in his pocket,
0:33:41 > 0:33:44and a roll of American bills out of the other pocket.
0:33:44 > 0:33:45He said, "I just hold Ben's money."
0:33:45 > 0:33:51Desai Williams, who had left Charlie to coach himself in 1985,
0:33:51 > 0:33:56decided to return after seeing Ben smash the world record.
0:33:56 > 0:33:58'I'd seen things that were happening out there
0:33:58 > 0:33:59'that were just unheard of.'
0:33:59 > 0:34:02You know, being out there every single day, busting your butt.
0:34:02 > 0:34:05You know, you see guys who never really accomplished anything
0:34:05 > 0:34:07just start accelerating, and just going through the roof.
0:34:07 > 0:34:09And it was just frustrating.
0:34:09 > 0:34:13Desai returned to a camp riven with disharmony.
0:34:13 > 0:34:16Ben's huge earning power brought with it arguments
0:34:16 > 0:34:18between coach, Charlie Francis,
0:34:18 > 0:34:20and Dr Jamie Astaphan,
0:34:20 > 0:34:23about which one had contributed most to the sprinter's rise.
0:34:24 > 0:34:26When I get the breakthrough, you know,
0:34:26 > 0:34:29everybody was just overwhelmed with the success.
0:34:29 > 0:34:32And no-one was prepared for it.
0:34:32 > 0:34:37'Don't forget, the big payoff was going to be
0:34:37 > 0:34:41'winning the 100m in Seoul.'
0:34:41 > 0:34:43That was the high-stakes game.
0:34:43 > 0:34:44Rome was the warm-up.
0:34:44 > 0:34:46Seoul was the big one.
0:34:48 > 0:34:51Everybody gets greedy, because everybody sees the money.
0:34:53 > 0:34:56Just four months before the Olympics,
0:34:56 > 0:34:58Johnson pulled a hamstring.
0:34:58 > 0:35:01Francis wanted to oversee his recovery.
0:35:01 > 0:35:03Instead, Ben decided to go to St Kitts,
0:35:03 > 0:35:06where Astaphan was waiting for him.
0:35:10 > 0:35:12I met Jamie.
0:35:12 > 0:35:14He embraced me as his son.
0:35:16 > 0:35:18I didn't have to train. I didn't have to do nothing.
0:35:18 > 0:35:21Just eat nice roast fish on the beach,
0:35:21 > 0:35:25and that was the best six weeks of my life, since I left Jamaica.
0:35:25 > 0:35:27The best six weeks I ever had.
0:35:30 > 0:35:32'Astaphan was the drug doctor.'
0:35:32 > 0:35:34And Charlie wasn't sure what was going on,
0:35:34 > 0:35:37and how that injury was being treated.
0:35:37 > 0:35:40'Here's a guy that's going to the biggest race of his life,'
0:35:40 > 0:35:43and you split with your coach at that given time.
0:35:43 > 0:35:47Something is definitely wrong. You have no coach for a while.
0:35:47 > 0:35:48Ridiculous!
0:35:48 > 0:35:50'Within a few days,
0:35:50 > 0:35:54'I started to receive different coloured pills and injections.'
0:35:54 > 0:35:57I didn't ask anything. I took it, because I wanted to get myself healed.
0:36:00 > 0:36:04The Olympic Games was about two months away.
0:36:04 > 0:36:08And I said, "Now, it's time to go back to work."
0:36:08 > 0:36:10I showed up at the track, and I said, "Hi, Charlie.
0:36:10 > 0:36:11"Let's get the job done.
0:36:11 > 0:36:14"We've come this far, were going to win a gold medal."
0:36:18 > 0:36:22Four weeks before the Olympics,
0:36:22 > 0:36:25Lewis and Johnson locked horns again in Zurich.
0:36:25 > 0:36:30It had been three years since Lewis had last beaten the Canadian.
0:36:30 > 0:36:33GERMAN COMMENTATOR: 'Johnson vorne...
0:36:33 > 0:36:34'und jetzt kommt Lewis!
0:36:34 > 0:36:36'Lewis kommt und Lewis gewinnt!
0:36:36 > 0:36:39'Jawohl! In 9.94!'
0:36:39 > 0:36:44'That is the race that sent Ben home saying, "Our programme's not working.
0:36:44 > 0:36:47"We've got to step our programme up." And that was the race that did it.
0:36:47 > 0:36:50'Lewis gewinnt in 9.94!'
0:36:50 > 0:36:53I was the better athlete, and it scared him.
0:36:53 > 0:36:54'That was not the case.'
0:36:54 > 0:36:56I know I was going to lose.
0:36:56 > 0:36:58And Charlie asked me, "You really want to run?"
0:36:58 > 0:37:00And I said, "Yes. I want to know where I'm at."
0:37:02 > 0:37:05I said, "I can fix things in six weeks for the Olympic Games."
0:37:10 > 0:37:14ANNOUNCER: 'This laboratory across the river from the Olympic Village
0:37:14 > 0:37:15'was built especially for these games.
0:37:15 > 0:37:18'The testing facility is equipped with analytical instruments
0:37:18 > 0:37:22'from the Hewlett-Packard Company of Palo Alto, California.'
0:37:22 > 0:37:24On arrival in Seoul,
0:37:24 > 0:37:27it was not the drug lab that caused the most concern for Ben.
0:37:27 > 0:37:29It was the behaviour of Dr Astaphan.
0:37:29 > 0:37:33'He'd seen that a lot of people were getting more recognition,'
0:37:33 > 0:37:35and he just started talking about
0:37:35 > 0:37:38he was going to go public with the information that...
0:37:38 > 0:37:42that the camp be taking a lot of steroids, and stuff like that.
0:37:42 > 0:37:46And I said, "If you need money, I've got money in my account.
0:37:46 > 0:37:48"Just say so, and I can have the money transferred over."
0:37:48 > 0:37:51COMMENTATOR: 'Christie's in 3, Da Silva in 4, Mitchell in 5,
0:37:51 > 0:37:54- 'Johnson in 6, Nunez in 7...' - 'I said, "When everything is finished,'
0:37:54 > 0:37:56"I will get rid of everybody."
0:37:56 > 0:38:00ANNOUNCER: 'I think Carl's running better now than he was last year.'
0:38:00 > 0:38:02ANNOUNCER: 'That is Carl Lewis downstairs.
0:38:02 > 0:38:05'We understand he is watching this on television. Is that right, Carl?'
0:38:07 > 0:38:09JOHNSON: 'I put all burners on,
0:38:09 > 0:38:11'and getting the body going for the final.'
0:38:11 > 0:38:13ANNOUNCER: 'Oh, but he turns over!
0:38:13 > 0:38:16'He really can move!'
0:38:16 > 0:38:19'Ben was very bodacious in many ways.
0:38:19 > 0:38:21'In Zurich, he had lost it,'
0:38:21 > 0:38:24but when I got to Seoul, my boy was back.
0:38:24 > 0:38:26I mean, he was back, big time.
0:38:28 > 0:38:31'He was...he got to kick Carl's butt, you know?
0:38:31 > 0:38:33'He was saying, "Oh, it kind of worries me.'
0:38:33 > 0:38:36- "I'm gonna f..." - HE LAUGHS
0:38:36 > 0:38:39I said, "Man, just relax! Go out there and do what you've got to do."
0:38:47 > 0:38:49'It's me against the world. And that's what it is.'
0:38:49 > 0:38:52Dead man walking, you know?! Just one of those things!
0:38:52 > 0:38:55Walking through that tunnel, you're going to the gallows!
0:38:58 > 0:39:00Once you get out from the tunnel, it's just electric.
0:39:00 > 0:39:04COMMENTATOR: 'Lane one, Da Silva of Brazil.
0:39:04 > 0:39:06'10.24 in the semi-final.'
0:39:06 > 0:39:10DA SILVA: For me, it was amazing to feel, "I'm part of this."
0:39:10 > 0:39:12After that, I said,
0:39:12 > 0:39:14"Man, I'm here. This is fun!"
0:39:14 > 0:39:16'Lane two, Ray Stewart,
0:39:16 > 0:39:19'the bronze medallist in the World Championship, from Jamaica.
0:39:19 > 0:39:24'Lane three, the reigning Olympic champion, Carl Lewis.
0:39:24 > 0:39:28'Carl Lewis, the fastest man in the world this year.'
0:39:28 > 0:39:29My father passed away in May of '87.
0:39:29 > 0:39:35And at the funeral, I took the 100m gold medal from 1984
0:39:35 > 0:39:38and put it in his hand in his coffin.
0:39:38 > 0:39:42And so he's holding it to this day. That's the one that I don't have.
0:39:42 > 0:39:45My mother was standing there, and she was like, "That's your medal!
0:39:45 > 0:39:46"Get that thing back!" and I said,
0:39:46 > 0:39:48"Don't worry about it. I'll win it back next year."
0:39:48 > 0:39:53So this is on my mind, going up to the starting line.
0:39:53 > 0:39:56'Linford Christie, he goes in lane number four.'
0:39:56 > 0:39:58CHRISTIE: Your heart is pumping away like crazy.
0:39:58 > 0:40:00And all you're saying is,
0:40:00 > 0:40:02"Dear God, don't let me die here on the track!"
0:40:02 > 0:40:04'Lane five, the former world record holder,
0:40:04 > 0:40:07'the world 200m champion, Calvin Smith.'
0:40:07 > 0:40:11SECOND ANNOUNCER: 'In Lane six, number 159,
0:40:11 > 0:40:14'the world champion and world record holder,
0:40:14 > 0:40:16'Ben Johnson, Canada.'
0:40:19 > 0:40:21Somebody said, "Let's go, America!"
0:40:21 > 0:40:24- I said, "Really?" - HE LAUGHS
0:40:24 > 0:40:27'Lane seven, his Canadian team-mate,
0:40:27 > 0:40:30'always running in Johnson's shadow, Desai Williams.
0:40:30 > 0:40:32'At 29, the oldest of the finalists.
0:40:32 > 0:40:37'And lane number eight, he mustn't be forgotten, Dennis Mitchell.'
0:40:37 > 0:40:40'It was about Carl and Ben, and we all knew that.
0:40:40 > 0:40:43'We were definitely the lane fillers.
0:40:43 > 0:40:46'So we were just kind of hopeful that something would happen
0:40:46 > 0:40:50'that would change our lives and little bit did we know,'
0:40:50 > 0:40:53it was the race itself that would change our lives.
0:40:53 > 0:40:56'And there must be between 90,000 and 100,000 people in the stadium.
0:40:56 > 0:40:59'And in fact, competitors have jammed into the aisles
0:40:59 > 0:41:00'to watch the race.'
0:41:00 > 0:41:03'Carl was shaking his leg.
0:41:03 > 0:41:05'He was looking out his side eyes.'
0:41:05 > 0:41:06To see me.
0:41:06 > 0:41:09'Lewis waiting as long as he can.'
0:41:09 > 0:41:11'I let him run my race. I didn't run his race.'
0:41:11 > 0:41:13'Who's going to be the last to settle?
0:41:13 > 0:41:15'Johnson's not going to fall for this.'
0:41:15 > 0:41:17'There should be no tension. Everything should be fluid,'
0:41:17 > 0:41:21because a fast muscle is a long, relaxed muscle.
0:41:21 > 0:41:24JOHNSON: 'Set myself up nicely.'
0:41:24 > 0:41:27- 'They've settled.'- 'Relaxed.'
0:41:27 > 0:41:30I'm listening for the gun.
0:41:31 > 0:41:33Then, boom!
0:41:35 > 0:41:37Catch me if you can.
0:41:39 > 0:41:41I tell you, the gun goes off,
0:41:41 > 0:41:44and I've never experienced this before in my life.
0:41:44 > 0:41:46'They go first time, Johnson got a brilliant start!'
0:41:46 > 0:41:50I see an entire body fly in front of us. I thought it was a false start.
0:41:50 > 0:41:52'It's Johnson away and clear.'
0:41:52 > 0:41:54He moved, and I tried to go with him.
0:41:54 > 0:41:58I'm the last one to get off the blocks,
0:41:58 > 0:42:02because I thought about my entire life until that moment.
0:42:04 > 0:42:05I got to 30 metres,
0:42:05 > 0:42:08and started to climb, and...
0:42:08 > 0:42:12it's not going to take me another 10 .
0:42:12 > 0:42:13Forget it.
0:42:13 > 0:42:17I start to be a spectator of that race.
0:42:18 > 0:42:20But at about 50 metres, I kind of woke up,
0:42:20 > 0:42:22and said, "You've got to run too.
0:42:22 > 0:42:24"You need a medal just as much as he does."
0:42:26 > 0:42:31I blew my wad from 60 to say, 70, 75 metres.
0:42:31 > 0:42:34It was just a bundle of tight, short muscles.
0:42:34 > 0:42:38Personally I'd been planning, he's going to die at 60,
0:42:38 > 0:42:39and we can come back.
0:42:39 > 0:42:42But he got to 60, and then he just kicked again.
0:42:42 > 0:42:44You know, and that was it!
0:42:44 > 0:42:46COMMENTATOR: 'He let's them go first time.
0:42:46 > 0:42:48'And Ben Johnson got a brilliant start!
0:42:48 > 0:42:51'Johnson away and clear. And Lewis is not going to catch him.
0:42:51 > 0:42:56'Johnson wins it. Lewis, second. Christie, third.'
0:42:56 > 0:42:59The job has been done.
0:42:59 > 0:43:04When I crossed the line, I said, "Gee, that was fast!"
0:43:04 > 0:43:07COMMENTATOR: 'Unbelievable! 9.79!'
0:43:07 > 0:43:10'Desai Williams celebrating...'
0:43:10 > 0:43:11To tell you the truth,
0:43:11 > 0:43:13I don't think even Ben knew how fast he ran.
0:43:13 > 0:43:16I didn't know where I was.
0:43:16 > 0:43:20I know that the crowd was just roaring and yelling and screaming.
0:43:22 > 0:43:24When we crossed that finish line,
0:43:24 > 0:43:27I just kind of thought to myself, "I did it."
0:43:27 > 0:43:28I didn't care what place I got.
0:43:28 > 0:43:32The whole world is looking at you, and it feels so great.
0:43:32 > 0:43:37Just being a part of such an incredible, hyped-up race.
0:43:37 > 0:43:39INTERVIEWER: How did you see the race, Carl?
0:43:39 > 0:43:41Well, I pressed well out of the blocks, Dave...
0:43:41 > 0:43:44I don't remember that race at all. Just, nothing.
0:43:44 > 0:43:48And I think, subconsciously, I don't want to remember it. I put it away.
0:43:49 > 0:43:51Carl was totally devastated.
0:43:51 > 0:43:56He had that look in his eyes that is not a joy to look at.
0:43:56 > 0:44:00Carl was looking across at Ben, and everything else,
0:44:00 > 0:44:03and he ran out of his lane so many times.
0:44:03 > 0:44:04I mean, two or three times.
0:44:04 > 0:44:07I remember crossing the line, and then saying, "Dad,
0:44:07 > 0:44:08"I can't believe I let you down."
0:44:08 > 0:44:11COMMENTATOR: 'And Johnson's answered everybody!'
0:44:11 > 0:44:13So then, I remember him doing his celebration,
0:44:13 > 0:44:18and I went to congratulate him. Because I knew everyone was watching.
0:44:18 > 0:44:20And I'll never forget it, he pulled away.
0:44:20 > 0:44:24You m... f..., you know?!
0:44:24 > 0:44:27You're going to play that game to me?!
0:44:27 > 0:44:30And I actually made him shake my hand.
0:44:30 > 0:44:32'And Mrs Lewis is the first to applaud.'
0:44:33 > 0:44:36And she knew Ben was cheating, but she had to sit there
0:44:36 > 0:44:39with that NBC camera on her face.
0:44:39 > 0:44:42JOHNSON: It's not about drugs. I was running for my mother.
0:44:42 > 0:44:46This is about, you see your mother working hard,
0:44:46 > 0:44:48and trying to make ends meet.
0:44:48 > 0:44:50And you're training to be the best you can.
0:44:50 > 0:44:53That gives you the drive and the fear not to fail.
0:44:53 > 0:44:57And, um, I love my mother.
0:44:57 > 0:44:59A lot.
0:44:59 > 0:45:01CHEERING
0:45:01 > 0:45:04'I felt like it was my son coming across the line.'
0:45:04 > 0:45:08I just grabbed at him and I had my bodyguards, and so we just literally
0:45:08 > 0:45:13left the stadium under the ground, and started climbing the stairs.
0:45:13 > 0:45:15And, of course, holding onto Ben.
0:45:15 > 0:45:19'It was pretty exciting, and then we had to have an interview with CBC'
0:45:19 > 0:45:21at the top of the stadium, with the prime minister.
0:45:21 > 0:45:24- 'Ben, can you hear me?'- Sure, yeah.
0:45:24 > 0:45:28'My congratulations to you on behalf of all Canadians.
0:45:28 > 0:45:32'You were just marvellous and all of us are so proud.'
0:45:32 > 0:45:36'It's one of those moments where everyone remembered where they were when he won.
0:45:36 > 0:45:39'It was really a galvanising moment for this country,'
0:45:39 > 0:45:44and everyone was really, really proud of him.
0:45:44 > 0:45:47'When we did go down to get the medal,'
0:45:47 > 0:45:51I took off his wet shirt, fixed his gold necklace.
0:45:51 > 0:45:53'I was certainly Mother of Ben that day.'
0:45:53 > 0:45:57"Good going, Ben. You go out and get that medal."
0:45:57 > 0:45:59COMMENTATOR: 'And now, Ben Johnson steps forward.'
0:45:59 > 0:46:02APPLAUSE
0:46:05 > 0:46:09'What's more valuable - a world record or the gold medal?'
0:46:09 > 0:46:11- The gold medal.- Why?
0:46:11 > 0:46:13Because it's something nobody can take away from you.
0:46:14 > 0:46:17POLICE SIRENS
0:46:20 > 0:46:22I was sleeping.
0:46:24 > 0:46:25I discovered it...
0:46:29 > 0:46:31Was I still at the village?
0:46:31 > 0:46:34- POLICE SIRENS - You know when I find out?
0:46:34 > 0:46:36I think I was still at the village when I heard that.
0:46:36 > 0:46:38I think I was awakened during the night.
0:46:38 > 0:46:40Four o'clock in the morning.
0:46:45 > 0:46:48I was in the condo. My brother called me...
0:46:48 > 0:46:49My phone rings...
0:46:51 > 0:46:53You got to be kidding me.
0:46:53 > 0:46:54I couldn't believe it.
0:46:55 > 0:46:58Hey, man, things happen.
0:46:58 > 0:46:59HE LAUGHS
0:46:59 > 0:47:02David Diaz is standing by at the Shilla Hotel with a report.
0:47:02 > 0:47:04Let's go to David.
0:47:04 > 0:47:09OK, and here you see it - this is the Korean daily newspaper, Hankook Ilbo.
0:47:09 > 0:47:12Here is the headline. It says, "Johnson doping test."
0:47:14 > 0:47:16Charlie knocked on my door...
0:47:16 > 0:47:18The test's positive.
0:47:18 > 0:47:21And I said, "Well, they finally got me."
0:47:22 > 0:47:23How could this happen?
0:47:23 > 0:47:27He shouldn't have been on drugs at the Olympics.
0:47:29 > 0:47:32I went to tell my mother and everyone.
0:47:32 > 0:47:34That was when the buzz started, the whole place wakes up.
0:47:34 > 0:47:36All hell broke loose.
0:47:40 > 0:47:43And we ran out of the media village,
0:47:43 > 0:47:47trying to get a cab in the middle of the night, and we all knew
0:47:47 > 0:47:50we were going to the same place. We were going to Ben's hotel.
0:47:55 > 0:47:58And we all raced over there, and by then, he was gone.
0:48:09 > 0:48:12REPORTER: 'The media got up early for this one, and why not?
0:48:12 > 0:48:15'They were looking at the biggest drugs story in Olympic history.'
0:48:15 > 0:48:17The Games literally stopped.
0:48:17 > 0:48:21'You're looking at the scene at the main press centre where the IOC...'
0:48:21 > 0:48:24'We were beginning to know in the real world about drugs in sport,
0:48:24 > 0:48:26'but they were always weightlifters'
0:48:26 > 0:48:30and all these events that people really didn't care about.
0:48:30 > 0:48:33This was track and field, this was the 100m,
0:48:33 > 0:48:36Carl Lewis and Ben Johnson, and there was no way
0:48:36 > 0:48:41that this could be anything other than a game-stopper.
0:48:41 > 0:48:46The urine sample of Ben Johnson was found to contain the metabolites
0:48:46 > 0:48:50of a banned substance, namely, stanozolol.
0:48:50 > 0:48:53It's an anabolic steroid.
0:48:53 > 0:48:57I kind of had empathy for Ben and what he was going through,
0:48:57 > 0:49:03because he went from a megastar to disaster in a matter of days.
0:49:03 > 0:49:06- How are you, Mr Johnson? - MAN SHOUTS: Canada wants to know why!
0:49:06 > 0:49:10Did you feel any empathy or sympathy for what Ben went through?
0:49:10 > 0:49:12No, I don't.
0:49:12 > 0:49:15- VOICES CLAMOUR - Yes, he took it!
0:49:15 > 0:49:17'This great humiliation kicked in,'
0:49:17 > 0:49:21very closely after this whole nation was riding on this emotional high.
0:49:21 > 0:49:23I used to think he was really great,
0:49:23 > 0:49:26but now I found out he took steroids, I don't like him very much.
0:49:26 > 0:49:31He'd lied to us, Charlie had lied to us, they'd all lied to us.
0:49:31 > 0:49:35I've never, ever knowingly taken illegal drugs.
0:49:35 > 0:49:36Bloody hell, come on.
0:49:36 > 0:49:42And I would never embarrass... my family...
0:49:42 > 0:49:44my friends, and my country.
0:49:44 > 0:49:49Johnson's denials implied that Charlie Francis had doped him without consent.
0:49:49 > 0:49:54The Canadian government commissioned Charles Dubin to get to the truth.
0:49:54 > 0:49:57- REPORTER:- '..a steroid called dianabol, eight years ago.'
0:49:57 > 0:50:00Did Ben Johnson understand that dianabol was...
0:50:00 > 0:50:03'Two of the people that we interviewed first were the coach,'
0:50:03 > 0:50:07Charlie Francis, and Angella Issajenko.
0:50:07 > 0:50:11When an athlete gets caught, you deny, you deny, you deny.
0:50:11 > 0:50:14From that, of course, we got a wealth of information,
0:50:14 > 0:50:21because they decided to break the conspiracy of silence.
0:50:21 > 0:50:27When someone who has been very good to you, someone has done you, um...
0:50:28 > 0:50:32..a good turn, that has been responsible...
0:50:34 > 0:50:37..for making you great, then...
0:50:41 > 0:50:45..you shouldn't turn against people like that.
0:50:45 > 0:50:49'I did this whole thing and told the truth just to save Charlie,'
0:50:49 > 0:50:56because Charlie meant that much to me. And there was no way that he was going to be blamed for all this.
0:50:56 > 0:50:58Mixture of...
0:50:58 > 0:51:02growth hormone and aqueous testosterone.
0:51:02 > 0:51:07Nobody was forced to take anything, Charlie didn't put a gun to your head and say, "You know what, guys?
0:51:07 > 0:51:10"You have to do this or else I'm not coaching you." He never said that.
0:51:10 > 0:51:15Did he understand that anabolic steroids were banned at the time?
0:51:15 > 0:51:16Yes.
0:51:16 > 0:51:18Is what Charlie's saying true?
0:51:18 > 0:51:22But it was Dr Astaphan's testimony that proved decisive.
0:51:22 > 0:51:26The axiom amongst track and field, plus other athletes, was,
0:51:26 > 0:51:28"If you don't take it, you won't make it."
0:51:28 > 0:51:31He revealed that he had taped telephone calls with Ben,
0:51:31 > 0:51:34discussing his steroid use.
0:51:34 > 0:51:39TAPE PLAYS: 'You haven't used any of the white stuff, the steroids, since December, have you?'
0:51:39 > 0:51:41'Uh, part of it, yeah.'
0:51:41 > 0:51:43- 'You have more left in the bottle?' - 'Yes.'
0:51:43 > 0:51:47What was the purpose of making these telephone calls, then?
0:51:47 > 0:51:51So that when - excuse my expression - the shit hit the fan, my tail would be covered too.
0:51:51 > 0:51:55Ben had no choice but to admit to everything.
0:51:55 > 0:51:58'I looked at my mother in the stands,'
0:51:58 > 0:52:02and I said to my mother, "Mum, what do you think?"
0:52:02 > 0:52:05Mum said, "Son, tell the truth...
0:52:07 > 0:52:09"..and everything will be OK."
0:52:09 > 0:52:14- You made a decision to go on steroids.- Yes.
0:52:14 > 0:52:17Some Winstrol tablets contained a little white phial.
0:52:17 > 0:52:19Did you know they were banned?
0:52:19 > 0:52:22Uh, in certain ways, yes.
0:52:22 > 0:52:24The inquiry was far reaching.
0:52:24 > 0:52:27It included an appearance by Dr Robert Kerr -
0:52:27 > 0:52:30infamous for supplying growth hormone.
0:52:30 > 0:52:34REPORTER: 'Kerr told the Dubin Inquiry today that at least 20 medal winners
0:52:34 > 0:52:38'at the 1984 Los Angeles Games used steroids to win.
0:52:38 > 0:52:40'And he should know - he says he gave them the drugs.'
0:52:40 > 0:52:44'I'm glad that the Dubin Inquiry took place.'
0:52:44 > 0:52:48It opened up a lot of individuals' eyes
0:52:48 > 0:52:52in terms of what goes on out there. You know?
0:52:52 > 0:52:58Not just Ben. You know, it's there. Other athletes have done it, right?
0:52:58 > 0:53:02So what? You know, they continue to still do it, so...
0:53:02 > 0:53:07- REPORTER:- 'As he left...'- The Dubin Inquiry was the first and only time
0:53:07 > 0:53:10that leading figures in international athletics were sworn under oath
0:53:10 > 0:53:13- to describe their drug-taking. - '..South Carolina 11 years ago.'
0:53:13 > 0:53:15Their reward for such honesty?
0:53:15 > 0:53:19To be banned by both national and international athletics federations,
0:53:19 > 0:53:25thus providing a significant disincentive for any other nation to follow suit.
0:53:27 > 0:53:31We all lost our records, you know. All the Canadian records we set.
0:53:31 > 0:53:33Huge price to pay for it.
0:53:33 > 0:53:36Sometimes, you look back and everything else,
0:53:36 > 0:53:40and as my dad says, "You had to be stupid."
0:53:40 > 0:53:43My best decision was leaving,
0:53:43 > 0:53:46my worst decision was coming back in the fall of '87.
0:53:46 > 0:53:48I should never have came back.
0:53:48 > 0:53:50I should've just kept going for it.
0:53:50 > 0:53:53Cos I had a decent track career.
0:53:53 > 0:53:55- VIA LOUDSPEAKER:- Hello, everybody! - ALL: Hello!
0:53:55 > 0:53:58'One of Britain's greatest sportsmen, the sprinter Linford Christie,'
0:53:58 > 0:54:02has been suspended from athletics on suspicion of taking drugs.
0:54:02 > 0:54:06I think they banned me for two years for something I totally, totally did not do.
0:54:06 > 0:54:12'Linford Christie tested positive for the anabolic drug, nandrolone, which helps pack on muscle bulk.'
0:54:12 > 0:54:14Does it matter to you, then,
0:54:14 > 0:54:16that people still harp on about...?
0:54:16 > 0:54:18Don't give a shit. You know, I don't...
0:54:18 > 0:54:21Yeah, I can honestly look you in your eyes, and I don't give a shit.
0:54:21 > 0:54:25- How many medals do you have? - I mean, I've won everything there is to win in our sport.
0:54:25 > 0:54:29Enemies never believe you, friends don't need explanation.
0:54:29 > 0:54:32'What they need to look at is,
0:54:32 > 0:54:35'"What have I done since?" Yeah, move on.'
0:54:35 > 0:54:38If I can move on, get a life, you know. Move on, you know,
0:54:38 > 0:54:41be in it for the sport, to make the sport a better place.
0:54:41 > 0:54:43Let's go!
0:54:43 > 0:54:45'Sprinter Dennis Mitchell is also suspended'
0:54:45 > 0:54:49after he was shown to have too much testosterone in his system.
0:54:49 > 0:54:51KLAXON SOUNDS Come on, guys, let's go! Pick it up, pick it up!
0:54:52 > 0:54:56'We're all vulnerable to make mistakes.'
0:54:56 > 0:55:00There was a period in my life... I made a coaching change.
0:55:00 > 0:55:03Probably was the worst decision I made in my life.
0:55:03 > 0:55:06Made a couple of bad decisions.
0:55:06 > 0:55:10And I was judged for it, and that's it.
0:55:12 > 0:55:15What were the accusations they were accusing you of?
0:55:15 > 0:55:18Er...one of them...
0:55:19 > 0:55:21..trafficking drugs.
0:55:21 > 0:55:24There you go. Kick.
0:55:24 > 0:55:27In 2010, Ray Stewart was embroiled in an investigation
0:55:27 > 0:55:32into the sale and distribution of drugs among elite athletes.
0:55:32 > 0:55:36Nobody come forward and say, "Hey, Ray, give me this, give me that."
0:55:36 > 0:55:40Their argument was the wire transfers between the bank accounts.
0:55:40 > 0:55:43That wire transfer, I was playing soccer.
0:55:43 > 0:55:45I showed them. B12.
0:55:47 > 0:55:48How do you deal with it, though?
0:55:48 > 0:55:51You're kind of tainted now, in people's eyes.
0:55:51 > 0:55:56People who watch track and field know track and field,
0:55:56 > 0:56:00know that all that crap they're talking about doesn't happen.
0:56:00 > 0:56:03You know, it's just people don't understand it.
0:56:04 > 0:56:07Recently discovered documents show Carl Lewis and other US athletes
0:56:07 > 0:56:13were allowed to compete in the 1988 Olympics after failing drug tests.
0:56:13 > 0:56:15At the 1988 US Olympic trials,
0:56:15 > 0:56:18Carl Lewis tested positive for three banned stimulants.
0:56:18 > 0:56:22This was not made public, because he successfully argued
0:56:22 > 0:56:25the result was caused by a Chinese herbal remedy.
0:56:25 > 0:56:29If found guilty, he would have missed the Seoul Olympics.
0:56:29 > 0:56:32Today, those results would not trigger a positive test.
0:56:32 > 0:56:34Who wants to make the story?
0:56:34 > 0:56:36If you go back and read, or know now,
0:56:36 > 0:56:40and you know that particular product was taken off the list,
0:56:40 > 0:56:44then, you know, "OK, I get it," it does make sense why they did it.
0:56:44 > 0:56:45Boom, it's over.
0:56:45 > 0:56:48But if you want to be.... Then you're going to say it, you know.
0:56:49 > 0:56:55I was moved up from fourth place to third place, for the bronze medal.
0:56:55 > 0:57:01I eventually got this medal under the stands at the Olympic Stadium.
0:57:01 > 0:57:06The Olympic Committee didn't do what they should have done.
0:57:06 > 0:57:10I feel they should have had another ceremony.
0:57:11 > 0:57:14I didn't lose, actually.
0:57:14 > 0:57:18I lost maybe 1 million or 2 million.
0:57:18 > 0:57:20Yeah, I have to admit that.
0:57:20 > 0:57:23But, um...
0:57:23 > 0:57:25I sleep very nice, every night.
0:57:31 > 0:57:33As the years went on,
0:57:33 > 0:57:35and our methods were getting better and better and better.
0:57:35 > 0:57:41I was curious, you know. How many things did we miss in '84?
0:57:41 > 0:57:44And I had, for whatever reason, kept them all in the refrigerator.
0:57:46 > 0:57:50I took 100 or 200, some number like that,
0:57:50 > 0:57:54and tested them, according to our modern methods.
0:57:54 > 0:58:01We could see drugs, and we did see more than we saw in '84.
0:58:01 > 0:58:05and then I start, "Hm, better not to do this."
0:58:06 > 0:58:08You know, we're seeing too much.
0:58:08 > 0:58:11What am I going to do with it?
0:58:11 > 0:58:13Are we going to publish it?
0:58:14 > 0:58:17Finally, I decided there were too many issues.
0:58:17 > 0:58:19But that's the history of testing.
0:58:19 > 0:58:22You just get better and better and better,
0:58:22 > 0:58:27and things that you couldn't test for yesterday, today are simple.
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