I don’t know what this guy is on, but he sure is fun to watch:
Jim Hines ran the first electronically-timed sub-10 second 100 meters at the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City. He ran 9.95. By 1999 that record had been lowered to 9.79, the same outrageous time Ben Johnson delivered high out of his mind in Seoul. 31 years to shave sixteen hundreths of a second.
Bolt has taken 0.21 off of that himself, and the guy looking at the back of his shirt, Tyson Gay, came home in 9.71. Something strange is going on.
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“By 1999 that record had been lowered to 9.79, the same outrageous time Ben Johnson delivered high out of his mind in Seoul.”
Johnson tested positive for an anabolic steroid …is that what you are referring to when you say he was “high out of his mind”?
Indeed. Johnson tested positive for Stanazol, which is just about the only steroid he claims not to have been taking at the time (hence the ongoing claim that his test was rigged).
it has to be considered in today’s day and age, sad – but true.
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