I’ll never tire of seeing this race. It represented a step change in sprinting and athletics of that era. The head on view at full speed is breath taking. The halcyon days of 80s athletics!
I remember the World Athletics Championships in Rome I was an official assistant to the national teams all the athletes lived the relaxing and fun atmosphere of life in the athletes' village, where we ate, chatted, joked, laughed and played together, all the athletes from all over the world and the guys from the organization all but one carl lewis arrived in rome as a star, he did not grant interviews, he lived apart, he never has been seen in the athletes' village until the moment of the accreditation to enter the olympic stadium. one evening we set up a room in the big ergife hotel with huge screens to attend the live concert of Madonna together, it was beautiful, fun, an unforgettable evening. they were all there. all but one. carl lewis played the role of the predestined triumphant as soon as he hit Italian soil. that didn't make him very popular, but he didn't care. he felt like a star and wanted everyone to recognize that role. when ben johnson won the final (and, mind you, i argue and will always argue that ALL athletes used banned substances extensively), a party was organized at the athletes' village in his honor which all athletes attended. also all US athletes. all but one.
Great story! Yeah sorry Lewis was and still is an arrogant prick. He tested positive for stimulants (ephedrine HCL) and nothing was done about it. All kept hush hush from the public ..so the US can keep giving money to the IOC
Great story. Lewis was my hero and athlete in the 1984 Olympics, but after the Olympics in L.A., I learned about Johnson and started noticing how Lewis tried to give the impression of grandiose while Ben was down to earth, soft spoken and focused on his job. I completely started disliking Lewis and had a new favorite athlete. His name was Ben Johnson. To me he won the 1988 Olympics fair and square
And LEWIS knew it,,,,running him down after the finish trying to shake hands,,, GET TO FUCK CARL LEWIS GET TA ABSALOUTE FUCK YOU TOTALLY EGO! SELF CENTRED VAIN DRUGGED UP SPOILT BRAT🤣😂😅😄😎BEN WAS THE BEST....DRUGS OR NO DRUGS WAS THE BEST!!!!!!!!@@@ THE BEAST!!!!!!!!
the best start ive ever seen ....he literally explodes its like he surprised himself and hes two metres up before hes done a stride ....amazing ,loved watching him as a kid and hes no more of a cheat than any of them
That voice of Ron Pickering, just for me made Athletics, loved his commentary and he made a race just that more exciting and enjoyable! A voice totally missed!!
Thats one crazy start! If you slow it down even more you'll see on the head on shot that Johnson was on his third stride at the same time Lewis was on his second...
Ben Johnson will forever be the best 100m sprinter ❤ absolutely no doubt. !! Excellent perfect built for the sprint, great start explosive power and , speed. Absolute delight to watch his run. He was superb 👍👌💯
Like how the announcer is really sticking it to Carl Lewis. lol Lewis was stunned and couldn't believe that Johnson had him beat after the first step out of the blocks. Race was over in 0.5 seconds. lol
Ben johnson is just the greatest. He has always gotten a good start. He put both hand and lifts his hands behind him and that gives him the aerodynamic lift, then he pushes both knees outwards and that give shim that drive and stability to lead
They were all using performance enhancing drugs. He was just more talented, gifted, and had that unique, unusual, blistering start. The man is a legend.
@@abukhalidali1823 Forget about them being doped up. Everyone is drugged in these performances. But focus on the form and running style of Ben Johnson and you'll see how incredible this was.
I like how all these comments are trying to rewrite history and saying Johnson was the greatest. Don’t mind the cheating. Unbelievable. Johnson is a disgrace and so are any athlete who has to cheat to win
@@jacobsuren5571 And it still doesn’t make it right. If 8 men are cheating on their wives and 1 gets caught, does he tell his wife we were all doing it so it’s ok? He also put Stanozolol into his body which is used for horses. What kind of idiot uses that to win a gold medal.
@@ghostrider764 what logic are u talking...so so many other athletes took drugs ...and didn't get caught and are now treated as heroes ...only this guy is targeted ...that's ok is it ???
God ud almost think that Ben's arms n legs wud come flying off his body cause they were moving so quickly from Gun to Tape. I'd say if Christie was in the middle lanes he wuda got the bronze over R. Stewart of Jamaica? I'll always remember this race cause of the time and the great athletes that it contained, that it encouraged me to take up sprinting myself and it took me from 12 hrs old to 1997 to become Irish National championship but at 200m tho, but I did win the national U23s National title at 100m as well. I love sprinting so much, it's the easiest event to do, but the hardest to be the best at. Ireland 🇮🇪 was the country I won those events BTW For any fan interested?? I wish I cud of made a world or Olympic appearance but I was a little shy of the qualifying time to get there. Ah well I enjoyed my time as an competitive sprinter n that's the important thing I guess. But to those who think their quick? Please get down to ur local Athletics club and see how u do wit the coach n other athletes/Sprinters. Nothing to lose. But all to gain,
Ben Johnson was a far better sprinter than Carl Lewis over 100m. If he was American, they would have christened him the GOAT and he never would have failed that drug test, unlike Lewis' multiple positive tests never allowed to become positive.
Lanes 1 and 2 reacted at the same time as Johnson but lacked his explosive first 2 strides. Johnson’s start looked even faster because Lewis’s was.beside him and his start was not very good.
They were all on a little something. Carl showed the effects of HGH and a lot of it was shoved under the carpet after LA '84. Ben just got sloppy and got caught.
My Goodness. The start from Ben Johnson was like a Bolt of Lightning. Even though Usain Bolt was faster over 100 mtrs . Even the Mighty Usain couldn't get out of the Blocks like that . Never has there been such a perfect start b4 or since .
Ben, the best starter! Lewis knows this but helpless. The gun and Ben start by at the same by time. May be Lewis accelerates speed after 70 metres, but by then Ben touches the ribbon. All athletes take performance enhancers, even Lewis. If this race is were to be in USA, though Lewis is from that country, he would have got first rank be a d Ben woul not have been stripped gold. Different countries, different rules even in Olympic.
they all doped...sucks his medals and WRs were stripped. lame hypocrisy! the majority of professional athletes dope...that simple. the blind denial is absurd.
Mighty Ben was on Stanazol at this time.. he was a shell of this form before he started PED's..If you could do it clean now that would be impressive! Cheaters like Ben Johnson and Lance Armstrong deserve no Glory.
Somehow Johnson leaps forward out of the blocks like no other person is capable of. On the very first stride he's already a half step in the lead. After several strides he has already established the final margin over Carl, meaning the last 80 or so meters is about even. Watch his start in slow motion. He catapults from the blocks, the strength of his left leg must be above and beyond, because just one thrust from the blocks and he's clearly in the lead, which seems ridiculous.
This was a great race. I remember watching it when I was 9 years old. Ben Johnson captured the public imagination wth that race. Carl Lewis got his ass whooped. I prefer this race than the 9.79 race the following year where he got busted for steroid taking.
9.83 is still a highly respectable time. Today the top sprinters apart from Usain Bolt can run 9.7. If you consider the newer, faster track surfaces that they now use in comparison to the mondo tracks 27 years ago. The sprinters of 2015 are running about 0.1 secs faster than Carl Lewis and Ben Johnson fastest times.
Yeah very true I think the carl lewis vs ben Johnson was a great rivalry it drew more people to the sport. Bolt is great but at his best no one can touch him making it a little boring
it is boring. I like Usain Bolt, he has been great for the mens sprints. However I would like him to leave track and field now as I would like to see the regular height sprinters competing in the 100/200 metres. At 1.96 m tall with such good leg speed and a muscular physique. His height and length of stride is a distinct advantage in comparison to the shorter sprinters. Carl Lewis was 1.90 m tall, Linford Christie was 1.89 m tall. These are 6' 2'' sprinters. Bolt is nearly 3 ins taller than them. I would prefer to see Yohan Blake take on, Tyson Gay, Justin Gatlin. Bolt has raised the bar and its time for him go into the NBA. He looks more like a Basketball player. I am 5ft 8 inches so I know the disadvantages of being a short guy.
Wow you really know your track and field stuff. Another great sprinter who didn't get alot press was Calvin Smith and I think was a clean athlete very humble to
Way faster than Bolt in the first 50m. But Bolt was a beast in the last 50m. I prefer the style of Big Ben by far. Quick from the start to the finish. A real 100m sprinter. With today's training and equipment, he would have run in 9.50.
Canadians were so naive, except Dick Pound. He made a very prosperous career out of sacrificing Ben at the Seoul Olympics. Many years later Charlie found out the Stanazolol in Ben’s B Sample was pure. Impossible, unless put there in the lab. Ben told the truth in the Dubin inquiry following the Seoul Olympics, because it was a serious legal proceeding. He admitted to taking steroids and for how long, but he never admitted to using Stanazolol in 1988. Since security in the drug testing area had broken down so badly in Seoul, the IOC could not prove that Ben took Stanazolol before the race, so they reverted to taking his medal away for another reason, Ben’s hormone profile. He was the only athlete the IOC penalized, even though most of the power and speed athletes had the same endocrine profile as Ben, including many big name medalists. Charlie knew all this information soon after the Olympics, except the information about Ben’s B sample which came years later. But the damage was done,and the public was never given the real story. Even today, most people still think Ben lost his medal for a positive Stanazolol test. Ben was a sacrificial lamb led to the IOC slaughter, ensuring that Carl and America would get their coveted gold medal, even though Carl had failed a US administered doping test prior to the Seoul Olympics. The head of the US drug testing program had written a letter to the US Olympic committee to have Carl taken off the team, but he was overridden. He subsequently left the drug testing program, feeling that it’s true purpose was to teach the athletes and coaches how to beat the testing system, not how to win clean.
Thanks for this info. I'd heard about that in bits and pieces but never so well put together. Ben has apparently put his life together nicely and is well regarded.
What an Orwell - great imagination, George! Carl was cleared according to the rules - he took a Chinese medicine against cold that contained small doses of ephedrine; and Carl actually suffered a lot from cold in 1988 - I can testify to that because I did a long radio interview with him that year, as far back as February 1988!
Carl LEWIS MADE ME SICK WHEN HE WAS COMPETING. BEN WAS ALWAYS A WAY BETTER SPRINTER! Carl Lewis never took steroids? Yeah right! Tell that story to a goat!
Lewis was confuse and couldn't believe how he was beaten, because he knows something wasn't right, then in 1988 Ben was disqualified...I believe he was taking the drugs before all his races...Lewis still the best...
And so is Carl Lewis problem is he is an American and was literally protected and scot free from his alleged substance taking accident so called accidental illegal taking really cheater
I was running at Howard back then and Ben was doping and the next year Carl came back and killed Ben Johnson. Carl may not have had the "star" personality they loved but he was a great and well respected.
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I’ll never tire of seeing this race. It represented a step change in sprinting and athletics of that era. The head on view at full speed is breath taking. The halcyon days of 80s athletics!
I never tire of seeing the 88 Olympic run
Great comment!!
@@deangarratt4965 truly agree with u
If Ben was from USA, he would have never got tested positive
Lewis was blown away because he was doping and couldn't believe anyone could beat him while he was on the juice.
Agreed
🤣 yeah
Ben was first inside of 9.9 and first inside of 9.8. His Olympic run in 88 was the most beautiful 100 meters EVER run.
Juiced or not Johnson is the man
@@obahchidi7646 he wasn't doing anything different from everyone else at that time. It's sad that they singled him out and destroyed his career.
I remember the World Athletics Championships in Rome
I was an official assistant to the national teams
all the athletes lived the relaxing and fun atmosphere of life in the athletes' village, where we ate, chatted, joked, laughed and played together, all the athletes from all over the world and the guys from the organization
all but one
carl lewis arrived in rome as a star, he did not grant interviews, he lived apart, he never has been seen in the athletes' village until the moment of the accreditation to enter the olympic stadium.
one evening we set up a room in the big ergife hotel with huge screens to attend the live concert of Madonna together, it was beautiful, fun, an unforgettable evening. they were all there.
all but one.
carl lewis played the role of the predestined triumphant as soon as he hit Italian soil.
that didn't make him very popular, but he didn't care. he felt like a star and wanted everyone to recognize that role.
when ben johnson won the final (and, mind you, i argue and will always argue that ALL athletes used banned substances extensively), a party was organized at the athletes' village in his honor which all athletes attended.
also all US athletes.
all but one.
Great story! Yeah sorry Lewis was and still is an arrogant prick. He tested positive for stimulants (ephedrine HCL) and nothing was done about it. All kept hush hush from the public ..so the US can keep giving money to the IOC
Great anecdote there 👍🏼
yeah carl seems really full of himself and insecure in general
Thanks for sharing !
Great story. Lewis was my hero and athlete in the 1984 Olympics, but after the Olympics in L.A., I learned about Johnson and started noticing how Lewis tried to give the impression of grandiose while Ben was down to earth, soft spoken and focused on his job. I completely started disliking Lewis and had a new favorite athlete. His name was Ben Johnson. To me he won the 1988 Olympics fair and square
He didn’t just beat Lewis, he absolutely crucified him!!!👊👊
hahahahah!!!!!
And LEWIS knew it,,,,running him down after the finish trying to shake hands,,, GET TO FUCK CARL LEWIS GET TA ABSALOUTE FUCK YOU TOTALLY EGO! SELF CENTRED VAIN DRUGGED UP SPOILT BRAT🤣😂😅😄😎BEN WAS THE BEST....DRUGS OR NO DRUGS WAS THE BEST!!!!!!!!@@@ THE BEAST!!!!!!!!
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Best "off the blocks" of all-time!! such explosiveness and time reaction!!
absolutly fast
Yeah , but juiced to gills!
Fastest first 2 steps ever! Looks like he was pushed from behind. It was almost too fast because he falls forward a bit between the 3rd and 4th step.
Ben Johnson will be remembered forever.......❤
the best start ive ever seen ....he literally explodes its like he surprised himself and hes two metres up before hes done a stride ....amazing ,loved watching him as a kid and hes no more of a cheat than any of them
Agree totally.
Agreed... if they'd all 100% been clean for 100% of their career, still same outcome.
Ben training on starts.
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That voice of Ron Pickering, just for me made Athletics, loved his commentary and he made a race just that more exciting and enjoyable! A voice totally missed!!
Yeah I agree a very knowledgeable guy to he really was a excellent at building a event up.
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Thats one crazy start! If you slow it down even more you'll see on the head on shot that Johnson was on his third stride at the same time Lewis was on his second...
In all of Johnson's races, the race was over after the first two steps. So explosive out of the blocks.
Ben Johnson will forever be the best 100m sprinter ❤ absolutely no doubt. !! Excellent perfect built for the sprint, great start explosive power and , speed. Absolute delight to watch his run. He was superb 👍👌💯
I love how Ben always paid Carl in dust!!
"He didn't just beat Lewis, he absolutely cruicified him" LOLOLOLOLO
"there he was BURIED" amazing commentary
Like how the announcer is really sticking it to Carl Lewis. lol
Lewis was stunned and couldn't believe that Johnson had him beat after the first step out of the blocks. Race was over in 0.5 seconds. lol
Ben Johnson was the best sprinter ever
No he is not.
@@steinjohnsen8766 Whole 80s generation was tainted by being cheats.
They were all drug cheats except Calvin Smith. He's the guy I feel sorry for.
Love the build up to race!
Ben johnson is just the greatest. He has always gotten a good start. He put both hand and lifts his hands behind him and that gives him the aerodynamic lift, then he pushes both knees outwards and that give shim that drive and stability to lead
Carl thinking to himself: "damn!! I'm juiced out of my brain and he still kicked my ass!!" 😂
😂😂😂😂 great comment.
@@anthonymcken6050 thanks!!
They were all using performance enhancing drugs. He was just more talented, gifted, and had that unique, unusual, blistering start. The man is a legend.
Ha ha, unbelievable comment.
11:34 - 11:44 Ron Pickering's comment - how prophetic.
My favourite Ben race because he pulls half his winning margin in the first 3 steps.
Yea cus of EPDs dopping ...he shoukd have stripped all of his wins ..Carl.alewis is the greates of the 20th century
@@abukhalidali1823 both were drugged, two professional cheaters
@@abukhalidali1823 Forget about them being doped up. Everyone is drugged in these performances. But focus on the form and running style of Ben Johnson and you'll see how incredible this was.
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@@abukhalidali1823 its been proven now Lewis's medals were won cuz he was taking PEDS
Well history has certainly taught us one thing, Ben Johnson was and still is the greatest of all time! sublime speed!
Usain Bolt is the greatest. Ben Johnson isn’t even in the conversation
@@ghostrider764 With today's training and equipment, Big Ben would have run in 9.50. A real 100m sprinter, quick from start to finish.
@@maitrehg And Stanozolol. Don’t forget that
@@ghostrider764 They're all drugged in one way or another. So I don't care.
I read somewhere in 88 Olympic final Ben would have ran a 9.72 if he hadn’t raised his arm and celebrate early.
Closer to 9.75. He wasn’t decelerating so much.
Ben Johnson was way better than Lewis
No - Johnson evidently used anabolics, Lewis didn't; and Lewis was a long jumper who at times also sprinted.
I like how all these comments are trying to rewrite history and saying Johnson was the greatest. Don’t mind the cheating. Unbelievable. Johnson is a disgrace and so are any athlete who has to cheat to win
@@ghostrider764 everyone was taking drugs ...only that he got caught ...know that fact first ...
@@jacobsuren5571 And it still doesn’t make it right. If 8 men are cheating on their wives and 1 gets caught, does he tell his wife we were all doing it so it’s ok? He also put Stanozolol into his body which is used for horses. What kind of idiot uses that to win a gold medal.
@@ghostrider764 what logic are u talking...so so many other athletes took drugs ...and didn't get caught and are now treated as heroes ...only this guy is targeted ...that's ok is it ???
this is awesome to watch again 6-14-2023 at 4:20am in the morning
Johnson's start was WILD lookin'!
Lewis forever trying to get into the rival's lane.
God ud almost think that Ben's arms n legs wud come flying off his body cause they were moving so quickly from Gun to Tape. I'd say if Christie was in the middle lanes he wuda got the bronze over R. Stewart of Jamaica? I'll always remember this race cause of the time and the great athletes that it contained, that it encouraged me to take up sprinting myself and it took me from 12 hrs old to 1997 to become Irish National championship but at 200m tho, but I did win the national U23s National title at 100m as well. I love sprinting so much, it's the easiest event to do, but the hardest to be the best at. Ireland 🇮🇪 was the country I won those events BTW For any fan interested?? I wish I cud of made a world or Olympic appearance but I was a little shy of the qualifying time to get there. Ah well I enjoyed my time as an competitive sprinter n that's the important thing I guess. But to those who think their quick? Please get down to ur local Athletics club and see how u do wit the coach n other athletes/Sprinters. Nothing to lose. But all to gain,
Ben Johnson was a far better sprinter than Carl Lewis over 100m. If he was American, they would have christened him the GOAT and he never would have failed that drug test, unlike Lewis' multiple positive tests never allowed to become positive.
Lewis a real cheater just because he is an American
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Lewis was also an extremely sore loser!
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3 Jamaicans in the top 4..... Johnson, Stewart and Christie.
Johnson had an excellent start. It was unrelated with drugs!
Lanes 1 and 2 reacted at the same time as Johnson but lacked his explosive first 2 strides. Johnson’s start looked even faster because Lewis’s was.beside him and his start was not very good.
Ben was a legend... just downgraded by US politics...
Lol these announcers are way to good
LOL! Ben was doping in Rome too and that's how he won.
They were all on a little something. Carl showed the effects of HGH and a lot of it was shoved under the carpet after LA '84.
Ben just got sloppy and got caught.
Thank you!
Braces in adults can be a sign and with gh you wouldnt put much size on.
Only once in a sprinters life you get such a perfect start. I know and everybody knows that Ben Johnson was robbed.
Rubbish - I don't know; speak for yourself 🤡
i guess ben johnson did not follow the script
I think this is also when Ben Johnson was suspected of steroid use as Carl Lewis observed the start was entirely "too good".
Johnson is nearly vertical at the moment he is out of the blocks
Dwight Stones/NBC - Ben Johnson 30.Aug'87:
"You said you'd run 9.85 and you ran 9.83"
"Yah, I don't talk shit."
Carl lewis is a big kid he hates getting beat
@14:48 Lewis sounds like one of the Jackson's.
He doesn't sing like a Jackson, even though he tried 😆
Espectacular toma!
My Goodness. The start from Ben Johnson was like a Bolt of Lightning. Even though Usain Bolt was faster over 100 mtrs . Even the Mighty Usain couldn't get out of the Blocks like that .
Never has there been such a perfect start b4 or since .
Big Ben 👍
i have yet to see a jump out of the blocks as good as this. He was a body length ahead of the field within the first 5 meters lol
love it
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Ben, the best starter! Lewis knows this but helpless. The gun and Ben start by at the same by time. May be Lewis accelerates speed after 70 metres, but by then Ben touches the ribbon. All athletes take performance enhancers, even Lewis. If this race is were to be in USA, though Lewis is from that country, he would have got first rank be a d Ben woul not have been stripped gold. Different countries, different rules even in Olympic.
carl could not belive he had lost to h johnson
Lewis athletic seems to being transformed into proud so far in sports career.. So... 😃😃😃😃
they all doped...sucks his medals and WRs were stripped. lame hypocrisy! the majority of professional athletes dope...that simple. the blind denial is absurd.
Those in the know know! Sadly the vast majority of the public have zero idea, so believe the politics!
Biggest robbery as Ben was stripped off this record as well after getting caught for illegal substance use in Seoul 88. Not fair at all.
No one beat ben Johnson record
The guy in lane#1 got off 2nd fastest, he was still in 2nd place until Carl Lewis caught him at 5 1/2 seconds, but he finished 2nd to last in the end.
Its coz not having enough speed endurance to keep going till end
Mighty Ben was on Stanazol at this time.. he was a shell of this form before he started PED's..If you could do it clean now that would be impressive! Cheaters like Ben Johnson and Lance Armstrong deserve no Glory.
And beta blockers(for concentration) too for his reaction to the gun
Johnson had a tendency to let up a bit at the end.
Ben Johnson is the GOAT! Period.
"Twitch Muscles" in action!
Because of Jamaican born Canadian Ben Johnson, Lewis didn’t like Usain or any Jamaican athlete for that matter.
This announcer could my bedtime story ant day of the week..T.
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Yes he's got a wonderful voice it was Ron Pickering OBE (4 May 1930 - 13 February 1991) was an athletics coach and BBC sports commentator.
That was most one sided race since 2007
Attila Kovács, the Hungarian lightning!
Ben Johnson, the best ever!
I remember watching this race , what happened to the positive drugs test , ?
Somehow Johnson leaps forward out of the blocks like no other person is capable of. On the very first stride he's already a half step in the lead. After several strides he has already established the final margin over Carl, meaning the last 80 or so meters is about even. Watch his start in slow motion. He catapults from the blocks, the strength of his left leg must be above and beyond, because just one thrust from the blocks and he's clearly in the lead, which seems ridiculous.
His workouts at York University in Toronto are absolute legend. Deadlifts, squats, leg press were all-world weights.
@@robinhafso9255 FACTS
Love that comment 'He crucified Lewis'!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Carl's legs were too skinny to win
you know, he wasn’t on steroids
This was a great race. I remember watching it when I was 9 years old. Ben Johnson captured the public imagination wth that race. Carl Lewis got his ass whooped.
I prefer this race than the 9.79 race the following year where he got busted for steroid taking.
Andre Dehaney yeah it was great race and 1st team Lewis lost a major final
9.83 is still a highly respectable time. Today the top sprinters apart from Usain Bolt can run 9.7. If you consider the newer, faster track surfaces that they now use in comparison to the mondo tracks 27 years ago. The sprinters of 2015 are running about 0.1 secs faster than Carl Lewis and Ben Johnson fastest times.
Yeah very true I think the carl lewis vs ben Johnson was a great rivalry it drew more people to the sport. Bolt is great but at his best no one can touch him making it a little boring
it is boring. I like Usain Bolt, he has been great for the mens sprints. However I would like him to leave track and field now as I would like to see the regular height sprinters competing in the 100/200 metres.
At 1.96 m tall with such good leg speed and a muscular physique. His height and length of stride is a distinct advantage in comparison to the shorter sprinters.
Carl Lewis was 1.90 m tall, Linford Christie was 1.89 m tall. These are 6' 2'' sprinters.
Bolt is nearly 3 ins taller than them.
I would prefer to see Yohan Blake take on, Tyson Gay, Justin Gatlin.
Bolt has raised the bar and its time for him go into the NBA. He looks more like a Basketball player.
I am 5ft 8 inches so I know the disadvantages of being a short guy.
Wow you really know your track and field stuff. Another great sprinter who didn't get alot press was Calvin Smith and I think was a clean athlete very humble to
Carl you were just as dirty as Ben you just didn't get caught.
look at johnsons sweating face in the interview.
This is a clear sign of a hightend metabolism.
Bolt has a sweaty face after every race ..
They warm up before the race too
Or a clear sign it was warm as fuck in rome.
Ben run like bullet
Didn't realise Carl Lewis was such a good sport. Very gracious in defeat.
What are you talking about?! He was always shady towards Ben and Linford insinuating they were doping... When he was as well, USTF covered for him.
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He would have destroyed Bolt with today’s standards. Best 100m runner ever been!
With today's training and equipment, he would have run in 9.50.
Silliest comment ever.
With more juice yes he would have, no doubt ! He claimed he could run 100m in 8'35 !!!
8:44 It was a false start it is possible to see it with the naked eye.
Was it fuck.
false start
Kovács Attila szépen futott.
Johnson beat Lewis 2 times amazing 👏
WoW Ben Johnson faster than Bolt
How?
Way faster than Bolt in the first 50m. But Bolt was a beast in the last 50m. I prefer the style of Big Ben by far. Quick from the start to the finish. A real 100m sprinter. With today's training and equipment, he would have run in 9.50.
@@maitrehg One is the greatest and one is a disgrace. I’ll take the greatest.
@@ghostrider764 They're all drugged in one way or another. So I don't care.
@@maitrehg 👍🏽
Carl "the sore loser" Lewis
Жалко Бена Джонсона подставили его суки!!!
No matter, get a more legal start and drop the record farther! Done all the talking.
false start???
They're doing all that talkin when now we know that Ben Johnson's body was literally bursting with anabolic steroids..
Thats why Jhonson was cought for cheating ...thats why he wqs dopping hard this year and in olympics 1988 no wonder
Canadians were so naive, except Dick Pound. He made a very prosperous career out of sacrificing Ben at the Seoul Olympics. Many years later Charlie found out the Stanazolol in Ben’s B Sample was pure. Impossible, unless put there in the lab. Ben told the truth in the Dubin inquiry following the Seoul Olympics, because it was a serious legal proceeding. He admitted to taking steroids and for how long, but he never admitted to using Stanazolol in 1988. Since security in the drug testing area had broken down so badly in Seoul, the IOC could not prove that Ben took Stanazolol before the race, so they reverted to taking his medal away for another reason, Ben’s hormone profile. He was the only athlete the IOC penalized, even though most of the power and speed athletes had the same endocrine profile as Ben, including many big name medalists. Charlie knew all this information soon after the Olympics, except the information about Ben’s B sample which came years later. But the damage was done,and the public was never given the real story. Even today, most people still think Ben lost his medal for a positive Stanazolol test. Ben was a sacrificial lamb led to the IOC slaughter, ensuring that Carl and America would get their coveted gold medal, even though Carl had failed a US administered doping test prior to the Seoul Olympics. The head of the US drug testing program had written a letter to the US Olympic committee to have Carl taken off the team, but he was overridden. He subsequently left the drug testing program, feeling that it’s true purpose was to teach the athletes and coaches how to beat the testing system, not how to win clean.
Great knowledge there
Thanks for this info. I'd heard about that in bits and pieces but never so well put together. Ben has apparently put his life together nicely and is well regarded.
What an Orwell - great imagination, George!
Carl was cleared according to the rules - he took a Chinese medicine against cold that contained small doses of ephedrine; and Carl actually suffered a lot from cold in 1988 - I can testify to that because I did a long radio interview with him that year, as far back as February 1988!
Pound for pound he was the best !
What happened to Lindoford Christie on this race not any enhancing drugs yet, or what?
His 5m-15m pick up was not great and he was already way behind by then. The lane draw may not have helped as couldnt see Stewart.
Not yet, look how skinny he is
Carl LEWIS MADE ME SICK WHEN HE WAS COMPETING. BEN WAS ALWAYS A WAY BETTER SPRINTER! Carl Lewis never took steroids? Yeah right! Tell that story to a goat!
Lewis was confuse and couldn't believe how he was beaten, because he knows something wasn't right, then in 1988 Ben was disqualified...I believe he was taking the drugs before all his races...Lewis still the best...
Ben was on drugs
Just like all others. So not a big deal.
And so is Carl Lewis problem is he is an American and was literally protected and scot free from his alleged substance taking accident so called accidental illegal taking really cheater
Yes but the guy was using steroids.
Like Lewis
I was running at Howard back then and Ben was doping and the next year Carl came back and killed Ben Johnson. Carl may not have had the "star" personality they loved but he was a great and well respected.
Ben---> when we bring necessacity of apetite---> necessacity of hunger
the beasT hunts wiLder beast at speeds U bet man ---> Bet 500$$$
Am gonna make charLie poor in two--> 2 races of heardLes
World's greatest!... druggy
Cheat start