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Ben Johnson

September 2018

  • Sean Ingle

    Sportblog
    How far has fight against doping really come since ‘dirtiest race in history’?

    Sean Ingle
    Exactly 30 years on from the Seoul Olympics 100m, the ineffectiveness of the anti-doping system remains a concern

June 2017

  • Drug cheat Ben Johnson in the Sportsbet ad

    Sportsbet's Ben Johnson ad banned for making light of drug use

    Ad for phone-betting app found to have breached advertising standards after featuring Canadian drug cheat next to words ‘putting the roid in Android’

May 2017

  • Former Olympic sprinter Ben Johnson

    Sportsbet defiant over advertisement starring drug cheat Ben Johnson

    Australian betting company refuses to back down after ad featuring disgraced Canadian sprinter prompts complaints

April 2014

  • Sean Ingle

    Sportblog
    London Marathon razzmatazz shows track and field the wacky way to go

    Sean Ingle

    Sean Ingle: Haile Gebrselassie is right – stadium athletics must arrest its decline in popularity by following the London Marathon lead

October 2013

  • Ben Johnson

    Sportblog
    Mike Tyson and Ben Johnson should not be apologising for cash

  • 1988 Olympics Ben Johnson

    That 1980s sports blog
    Ben Johnson, Carl Lewis and the drama of the Dirtiest Race in History

September 2013

  • 9.79*

    9.79* – review

    This extended version of a BBC4 documentary points out that Canada was more self-excoriating than most countries when it investigated the Ben Johnson scandal, writes Peter Bradshaw

August 2012

  • 1988 Olympics 100m final

    The Dirtiest Race in History by Richard Moore – review

    Alexander Macleod on the troubled stars of the world's premier race

July 2012

  • Ben Johnson in 100 meter final Seoul 1988

    TV review
    TV review: Faster, Higher, Stronger

    How can you make a film about the men's 100 metre sprint and not mention the drugs, asks John Crace

May 2012

  • Ben Johnson

    50 stunning Olympic moments
    50 stunning Olympic moments: Ben Johnson - in pictures

    In Seoul back in 1988 Canada's Ben Johnson stormed to gold in the 100m … then tested positive for steroids

  • 1988 Olympics Ben Johnson

    50 stunning Olympic moments
    50 stunning Olympic moments No33: Ben Johnson wins gold … tests positive

    Simon Burnton: Six of the eight 100m finalists at Seoul 1988 have been implicated in doping at some point in their careers, Ben Johnson being the first of them
  • Ben Johnson in 100 Meter Race

    Olympic 100m final, Seoul 1988 – in pictures

    At the time one of the most eagerly anticipated athletics events ever, it is now regarded rather differently because of the drugs offences committed by a number of the participants

October 2010

  • Ben Johnson

    Ben Johnson: 'My revelations will shock the sporting world'

    The shamed former sprinter tells Donald McRae of the loneliness, rehabilitation and the events leading to his ban

September 2010

  • From the Guardian archive
    From the archive: 27 September 1988: Johnson stripped of Olympic gold

    Originally published in the Guardian on 27 September 1988: Ben Johnson, the Canadian Olympic 100 metres champion and world-record holder, has lost his gold medal after failing a drugs test

May 2010

  • Charlie Francis

    Charlie Francis obituary

  • Ben Johnson and Charlie Francis

    Ben Johnson's ex-coach Charlie Francis dies after battle with cancer

September 2008

  • Drugs cheat Canada's Ben Johnson

    Sportblog
    From the Vault: the rise and fall of the fastest man on earth

    Two decades on from Ben Johnson's Olympic gold and his subsequent disgrace, read Frank Keating's reports and share your memories ...

December 2006

  • Lewis manager planted spy in Johnson's drug-test room

    Atheltics: Ben Johnson's claims of sample-tampering in Seoul has been denied by Carl Lewis's manager, though he admits spying on him.

January 2006

  • Johnson: nearly half of sporting world on drugs

    Ben Johnson has claimed that nearly half of all competitors use performance- enhancing drugs. The Canadian sprinter, stripped of his Olympic gold medal in 1988 and banned after testing positive for an anabolic steroid, believes "40% of people in sports" are cheating.

December 2003

  • Christie says no to Johnson rematch

    December 12: Linford Christie has rejected an invitation to run against Ben Johnson and Carl Lewis in a re-run of the 1988 Olympic 100 metres final.

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