20 years on and former Canadian sprinter who was stripped of his 1988 Seoul 100m gold and record swiped, Ben Johnson, is still adamant his urine sample was tainted and it was all a conspiracy theory

Via Times Online

OF ALL the stories uncovered by Ben Johnson’s positive drugs tests, few were more curious that the mystery man seated alongside the Canadian sprinter in the waiting-room at the main stadium as he was preparing to give his urine sample.

Supporters of Johnson seized on this astonishing lapse of security to claim that there had been sabotage. They argued that the sprinter had been deliberately given stanozolol, the anabolic steroid, possibly slipped into the beer he was drinking so that he could produce the urine specimen

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