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[Definitie:] "An ergogenic aid is any substance or phenomenon that enhances performance."
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2 6 - 0 9 - 2 0 0 6 I was framed and the truth will come out, says Ben Johnson
AFP
Disgraced Canadian sprint king Ben Johnson has repeated claims he had been framed when he tested positive for anabolic steroids after winning the 1988 100 metres Olympic gold medal.
He also predicted Tuesday that the true story behind his positive test would soon emerge. "I would never have tested positive if some guy did not set me up in Seoul," said Johnson, who was stripped of his 100m gold and later banned from the sport for life after failing another test in 1993. "The urine was mine but what was found in my urine was put there." Johnson, who ran 9.79 seconds to win the title -- it was subsequently erased from the record books once he was found to have cheated -- said he was getting close to blowing the lid off the 'conspiracy'.
"Everybody speculated upon the wrong thing and there was a mystery guy, no one could say who he was... but now I have got the real truth and know who has done this. I am very proud of what I did (that night in Seoul) and one day the gold medal will come back to Ben Johnson because I know exactly what the real truth is.
"I guess it is too much right now on national TV but something very big is coming out next year about this. It is not going to be hard to prove," said Johnson, who went on to become personal fitness trainer for Diego Maradona and Libyan leader Colonel Moamer Kadhafi's son Al-Saadi.
0 6 - 1 1 - 2 0 0 6 Johnson claims Lewis helped sabotage him
AP
MELBOURNE, Australia - Disgraced sprinter Ben Johnson has claimed superstar rival Carl Lewis played a part in a conspiracy to sabotage his drug sample at the 1988 Seoul Olympics, costing him his 100 meters gold medal.
Johnson set a world record of 9.79 seconds to win the 100 meters at Seoul but was stripped of his gold medal and world record when he tested positive for the banned steroid stanozolol. The Canadian sprinter has since admitted using banned drugs but has continued to insist his positive test at Seoul was the result of a conspiracy to discredit him.
"I have the information on how it was done and why it was done this way and who was behind it," Johnson told Melbourne's Herald Sun newspaper in a Dec. 1 interview.
Asked whether Lewis was involved, Johnson said: "I won't say too much but ... he's involved."
Johnson has claimed he drank beer with a former U.S. football player in the drug test waiting room at Seoul, that the footballer was "a family friend" of Carl Lewis and that his beer had been tainted with stanozolol.
"I've been speaking to my lawyer and he wants to keep it as low (key) as possible until next June. We're trying to get some information, try to get that guy (the footballer) to speak," Johnson told the Herald Sun.
Lewis, in his book Inside Track, acknowledged knowing the footballer seen drinking with Johnson at Seoul but ridiculed any suggestion the player may have tampered with Johnson's beer. The Herald Sun was unable to contact Lewis for comment.
Lewis' manager, Joe Douglas, rejected Johnson's claims, saying: "There is no way, ever, that Carl would sabotage or make any athletes turn positive. That's not his style.
"Carl would never ever try to get somebody caught on drugs. He might be upset they weren't getting caught, but he would never sabotage anyone."
Johnson made similar conspiracy allegations in an interview with an Australian television network in October. He admitted he had been a longtime user of performance-enhancing drugs but said stanozolol was not one of the drugs he had been using.
"Number one, that day the drugs that they find in my system was not the drugs that I was using," he said.
"Number two, Ben Johnson was sabotaged in Seoul. Somebody set me up.
"I'm not denying at all that I was taking drugs but that's the drugs that I was using that they claiming.
"Drugs was in sports long before Ben Johnson came on board and drugs will be there long after Ben Johnson is gone."
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