You are correct about the two foot start. I believe a couple others used that technique also. A Track Technique newsletter I read in 1971 said that German 100 meter Olympic champion Armin Hary pioneered the technique.
Crossed by the greatest hypocrisy ever seen in sport. Carl Lewis, Linford Christie both Olympic gold medalists were caught in doping. The American with a physicist wide open by Anabilziantes (Florence Griffith-Joyner) was never caught. Ridiculous. For me Ben will be remembered for being an extremely strong runner with a strong start and after getting upright to increase his speed and be steady, something no sprinter in the world has ever done. Bolt starts poorly, but Bolt is on another level. Ben was 20 years ahead of his time.
no @G H doesn't need to get into the argument...we know that doping programmes were just part and parcel of training...johnson was the best and would have won anyway.
He is the best, period. In a sport where virtually everyone dopes/cheats, Ben was made the scapegoat. Whoever is the winner nowadays just has the best drugs and/or bribes, that's it.
@@patricksweeney5308 He's great but they were all juiced, just like Michael Johnson slowing down intentionally in his last race to avoid attracting unwanted attention.
@@jamesali76 no one saying Bolt was not great were saying Ben Johnson is the pioneer of greatest, Bolt could could never be the legend of legends which Ben Johnson triumph beyond Bolt could ever capture the soul of greatness..
i always liked ben. honest and decent guy. 1988 was the best 100m of all time. I hope they continue to investigate the reality of 1988. he does not deserve any hate at all.
@shane yes, the man accused of spiking his drink has never denied it. when he was asked about it he said "maybe i did, maybe i didnt, but that was a long time ago" or something to that effect. he basically admitted it but doesnt want to be charged with a crime
@@отпирайте yea i think thats his name. Also most of the others were taking PEDs. Carl lewis failed tests but was given a pass. All the while he was accusing ben of taking them!
@@Captain_Rhodes I was heartbroken when Ben tested positive. I still remember where I was when it happened. I was praying they would find whoever "spiked" his drink. But then the reality sunk in that he had done drugs and there wasn't anyone who spiked anything. I never hated Ben for taking drugs. The 80's were filthy with drug users. He was a spectacular runner, probably the greatest start we've ever seen. PS. I saw him training at York University in the mid 90's. He was still in great shape. He talked to me for a minute and gave me an autograph. Something I'll never forget.
@@thomasmckenzie4584 from what I understand he did take PEDs but the drink story is actually true. The athlete accused of doing it has never denied it and all but admitted it.
9.79 in 88? He the fastest man to ever live. Imagine what that time would be today with the better tracks, spikes, training methods and diet. He cheated but they all did and most still do.
They need to do the tests on all the participants from 1988 they still have the samples. Don Caitlin says they could do it but they don't seem willing to because it might make the IOC look bad when all competitors would show illegal drugs in their system. They need to do it and they need to apologize to Ben.
@Moi Moi I had a French Canadian girlfriend visited in Quebec in 1990 they only care about hockey. Ben Johnson should of run for USA he would have statues and metals now.
Didn't realize that. When I was about 15 years old, I saw him hanging out in front of my building at Markham and Ellsemere in Scarborough wearing a head-to-toe yellow cotton tracksuit and he was carrying a massive rottweiler. He was alone and didn't interact with my friend and I. It was strange actually--he just stood there staring as if he were a deer in headlights. He would not say hello back to us. When we made our way back later he was in the landlord's office in the lobby of the neighboring building speaking with him.
И не поспоришь, 99% проф спринтеров и 100% чемпионов и рекордсменов использовали и используют допинг в не меньших количествах.К тому же сейчас допинг более качественный чем во времена Бена,а обгоняют его единицы в наше время,и то Бен так и не смог достичь своего возможно пика;(
@@Eyeshield-bx3cq Большой Бен - один из героев моей туманной юности, другим героем был Мирус Ифтер... Они были такие разные, один бегал 100 м., другой - 5000 и 10000 м... Хорошо их помню... С такими ребятами мы встречаемся в детстве, чтобы потом они всегда были вместе с нами, даже если кто-то уже ушел... Здоровья Бену и царствие небесное Мирусу...
he really improved from 1985 didnt he?.. i mean, after years of being a 6.60 and 10.2 runner, he suddenly went to 6.41 and 9.79 in mid late 20s...i also noticed that he was kinda wrangy and then very muscular,, odd given his age. he mustve discovered how to train or something.
Tim N according to his coach he started to use peds as early as 1981, so he probably just peaked. But contrary to a popular saying, no, ben didnt come out of nowhere
@@отпирайте dude i know my athletics. Ben was an also ran in canada for a long time in the 10.4s. He may have been using PEDs then because testing was poor. Whatever he was using it wasnt dbol..probably s'zol as its quick to clear and pretty mild in terms of speed gains. they call it one of the more 'honest' steroids as it also has few or mild sides. when he went to a cocktail of stanozolol and anapolan that was a huge mistake. rumour was he also aqueous test. Anapolan/Anadrol is really easy to detect, even in the 80s. If you take it within 4 weeks of an event it'll show traces. Ben apparently took it on the day, and had been for a while. That stuff makes you a gorilla. Back in the late 50s and 60s dbol was estimated to take 0.3-0.5s off of your 100m time. that was dbol on its own, and anapolan makes dbol look like a protein drink. Give Usain a year of dbol or adrol with some stanazolol and he'd running a 9.1. Similarly if you give the entire 100m field the drugs they had in the 60s and 70s, and the time for a 100m medallist would be a 9.5.
@@timn4481 show me a source of those certain substances shaving off certain amount of time off. It all really depends really on how you really take advantage of it, how you train with the extra capacity added by the substance, the immediate gains in speed itself are very minimal. So the only athletes that use peds that get caught LOL. Even for ben it took 7 years go get caught.
He won olympic medals in 84 as well mind so more than just an average sprinter at the time, think he did 10 flat in 85 then 9.95 I think in 86 which was fastest at sea level at the time too and just .02 off Calvin's wr
@@отпирайте he never got caught ,,,, Lance Armstrong failed four drug test ...www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-04-17/armstrong-tested-positive-for-steroids-four-times-in-1999-tour
@Sto So he injured his hamstring not long before the race, so he most likely didnt let enough time pass between the last dose and test. There’s also the theory that his drink was tainted. Ben had been using since 1981 and that was his first positive.
Just finishing the new Ben Johnson book The Fastest Man outstanding book it goes into way more detail of Ben’s Problems lays it all out he was screwed big time especially that 1988 Olympic 100m because we all know Mr Lewis was positive with a number of other American Athletes at their Trials yet the USA Track & Field let them go to the Olympics outrageous Mr Lewis never told u about this did he till he was caught out 12 years later! But at the Time all the hippocrite could say say was how dirty Ben Johnson was because he beat him regularly & took his World Record twice this Man Mr Lewis should be ashamed the way he carried on stinks of another American Cheat Lance Armstrong both got Egos the size of Texas & this is why the rest of the World will never cheer for Americans in International Competition period to Brass to Loud look at me how good am I etc
Any sprinter that is top 5 in the world are juicers ..... Ben was just better at juicing then everyone else .....the worst country is the USA for being the king of the juice king countries
Carl Lewis was on steroids too, he should have never been given Johnson's medal. USADA are an army of hypocrites, allowing a man who failed 3 drug tests to compete.
@Twilight living lewis was tested positive at us trials but USA decided to cover it up, Christie never admitted to anything of the such, he was found initially positive at the Olympics but was proven to be something not classed as a banned substance so reinstated straight away. 2 yrs after Christie retired in 99 he ran a charity bet race with some mates and was found to be part of that dodgy scam where lots of athletes were suddenly bein found guilty of drugs yet it wasnt very clear cut so most were let off (well the Americans were) where as the UK much stricter and never liked him anyway so threw him under the bus even tho he was retired and never actually competing anyway 🤷♂️
@William Diemhert, Ben Johnson just got caught in a sea of fish, Years later: Hulk hogan (WWE) Barry Bonds & Jose Canseco(Baseball) all those stars where caught doing steroids and many more and those, who you haven't heard about, they just covered it well. Roid or not Ben Johnson was just a sacrifice at that time and ran among other cheats too, who just didn't get caught!
If I recall correctly, Ben took off from the blocks with both feet at the same time. Nobody else did that.
You are correct about the two foot start. I believe a couple others used that technique also. A Track Technique newsletter I read in 1971 said that German 100 meter Olympic champion Armin Hary pioneered the technique.
If you also remember correctly Johnson was drugged to the gills. That's why he took off so fast.
Crossed by the greatest hypocrisy ever seen in sport. Carl Lewis, Linford Christie both Olympic gold medalists were caught in doping. The American with a physicist wide open by Anabilziantes (Florence Griffith-Joyner) was never caught. Ridiculous. For me Ben will be remembered for being an extremely strong runner with a strong start and after getting upright to increase his speed and be steady, something no sprinter in the world has ever done. Bolt starts poorly, but Bolt is on another level. Ben was 20 years ahead of his time.
Exactly
damn right. beautifully stated
Well said👍
Right on! Elton John's song about Ben Johnson. Rocket Man!!!! 🏃♂⚡⚡
Johnson will be remembered as a cheat and rightly so. He should have been banned from day one. Without drugs he would have been average.
You have to remember Ben Johnson was partially deaf so for him to get a great start is still amazing.
You have to remember Ben Johnson was a doper
@@alanrobinson7891 _ so was everyone else in these fields. Just that some were better than others.
@@geedubb-q1u well its alleged they were. Without evidence they were then it's just accusations
G H has left the chat due to lack of evidence and embarrassment
no @G H doesn't need to get into the argument...we know that doping programmes were just part and parcel of training...johnson was the best and would have won anyway.
Great collections.Remembering Ben again.
Look how rare it was back then to go under 10secs. Now half the field does it.
He is the best, period. In a sport where virtually everyone dopes/cheats, Ben was made the scapegoat. Whoever is the winner nowadays just has the best drugs and/or bribes, that's it.
Wouldn't you consider the best period the fastest ever time?
@@garethhancock8525 makes sence.
@@garethhancock8525 That's my point, he was way ahead of his time, his record stood for a very long time.
@@patricksweeney5308 He's great but they were all juiced, just like Michael Johnson slowing down intentionally in his last race to avoid attracting unwanted attention.
@@spendingtimetogether8428 how long did his record stand?
The strength Ben Johnson body produces is unbelievable no human runs with this power and speed like Johnson. Ben is a legend of legends!
Possible, but he said he couldve beaten Usain Bolt .. 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔
Absolutely right👍👍
That's the effects of using PED's
Think you have not heard about the great BOLT
@@jamesali76 no one saying Bolt was not great were saying Ben Johnson is the pioneer of greatest, Bolt could could never be the legend of legends which Ben Johnson triumph beyond Bolt could ever capture the soul of greatness..
I think Canadin Athletic Committee have to say sorry to Ben Johnson
You must be out of your mind,,, and nothing you say should be taken serious,,,
@@sinsin1697He is right
Great compilation!
i always liked ben. honest and decent guy. 1988 was the best 100m of all time. I hope they continue to investigate the reality of 1988. he does not deserve any hate at all.
@shane yes, the man accused of spiking his drink has never denied it. when he was asked about it he said "maybe i did, maybe i didnt, but that was a long time ago" or something to that effect. he basically admitted it but doesnt want to be charged with a crime
@@Captain_Rhodes andre jackson right? that’s probably the best way to say it while avoiding repercussions.
@@отпирайте yea i think thats his name. Also most of the others were taking PEDs. Carl lewis failed tests but was given a pass. All the while he was accusing ben of taking them!
@@Captain_Rhodes I was heartbroken when Ben tested positive. I still remember where I was when it happened. I was praying they would find whoever "spiked" his drink. But then the reality sunk in that he had done drugs and there wasn't anyone who spiked anything. I never hated Ben for taking drugs. The 80's were filthy with drug users. He was a spectacular runner, probably the greatest start we've ever seen.
PS. I saw him training at York University in the mid 90's. He was still in great shape. He talked to me for a minute and gave me an autograph. Something I'll never forget.
@@thomasmckenzie4584 from what I understand he did take PEDs but the drink story is actually true. The athlete accused of doing it has never denied it and all but admitted it.
BEN JOHNSON..THE SUPERB RUNNER...
9.79 in 88? He the fastest man to ever live. Imagine what that time would be today with the better tracks, spikes, training methods and diet. He cheated but they all did and most still do.
Even if he hypotethically say that he was the only one who took PED’s (not true), he was still the fastest man back then by a LONG shot
yeah mate, i agree
He was cheating to the extreme he wouldnt run that fast if he hadnt 10 tonnes of steroids in his body
So true👍
Probably a 9.61 man in todays era.
The fastest man to get caught
They need to do the tests on all the participants from 1988 they still have the samples. Don Caitlin says they could do it but they don't seem willing to because it might make the IOC look bad when all competitors would show illegal drugs in their system. They need to do it and they need to apologize to Ben.
Yeah cos they are gonna apologise to someone caught cheating
2:51 Look a the start of Ben Johnson. Unreal
Fastest reaction time of all time
Ben the Best.
Ben Johnson deserves and apology from Canadians. You guys treated him horrible and still put him as the poster child for Roids.
@Moi Moi I had a French Canadian girlfriend visited in Quebec in 1990 they only care about hockey. Ben Johnson should of run for USA he would have statues and metals now.
Say no to drugs
LOL, we're suppose to apologize for him cheating?!🤣🤣🤣🤣
Didn't realize that. When I was about 15 years old, I saw him hanging out in front of my building at Markham and Ellsemere in Scarborough wearing a head-to-toe yellow cotton tracksuit and he was carrying a massive rottweiler. He was alone and didn't interact with my friend and I. It was strange actually--he just stood there staring as if he were a deer in headlights. He would not say hello back to us. When we made our way back later he was in the landlord's office in the lobby of the neighboring building speaking with him.
@@eds464 No, I think you missed the point. Cheating is cheating. If everyone else is cheating, fine, but that's NOT an excuse to also cheat
GOAT
Ben was a beast. So sorry for him...
Been Jucin is a legend
Ben was a phenomenal runner, can anyone to this day have a better explosive start of the blocks? I don’t think so…
Christian coleman is also a fantastic starter I’d say
Coleman is the best starter
@@orientationkamp Yeah sorry I watched three videos and he was an explosive runner, but I’d say Ben has him still out of the blocks.
ANYONE? No one who didn't take steroids lmfao
@@arsenioseslpodcast3143 As I said, nobody had a better start out of the blocks than Ben.
2:40 Literally feels like a cartoon with all of them banging up against the wall. 😂
Carl Lewis was doping his entire athletic career but ok
And he gets all the accolades, fame and attention, hence this
Carl who?
@@отпирайте he take drugs developed for him to cheat all the drug tests
Бен Джонсон... Красафффчик !!!
И не поспоришь, 99% проф спринтеров и 100% чемпионов и рекордсменов использовали и используют допинг в не меньших количествах.К тому же сейчас допинг более качественный чем во времена Бена,а обгоняют его единицы в наше время,и то Бен так и не смог достичь своего возможно пика;(
@@Eyeshield-bx3cq Большой Бен - один из героев моей туманной юности, другим героем был Мирус Ифтер... Они были такие разные, один бегал 100 м., другой - 5000 и 10000 м... Хорошо их помню... С такими ребятами мы встречаемся в детстве, чтобы потом они всегда были вместе с нами, даже если кто-то уже ушел... Здоровья Бену и царствие небесное Мирусу...
Именно
You are the best
They said he was on roids wow, A way to take our gold away from us.
1:11 ,,,,,,how many lanes did that track have
12
1985 is when Ben Johnson started getting the speed endurance to finish the races
Бен лучший!
Абсолютно
Que decepción Ben, eras mi idolo cacho.
Shut up
Goat
So hes running 100m in 10 seconds and he said he could beat Usain bolts record ? Regardless of how fast tracks get, he cant run a 9.3
His fastest Time was a 9.79
Not necessarily, just a winner's mentality
Banning him done a lot of good to both his health and wealth he made a lot on real estate and his body rested
What a way to end his career. Running against horses....
Only because he was disqualified from competing against human in a formal contest due to his consistency of cheating
he really improved from 1985 didnt he?.. i mean, after years of being a 6.60 and 10.2 runner, he suddenly went to 6.41 and 9.79 in mid late 20s...i also noticed that he was kinda wrangy and then very muscular,, odd given his age.
he mustve discovered how to train or something.
Tim N according to his coach he started to use peds as early as 1981, so he probably just peaked. But contrary to a popular saying, no, ben didnt come out of nowhere
@@отпирайте dude i know my athletics. Ben was an also ran in canada for a long time in the 10.4s. He may have been using PEDs then because testing was poor. Whatever he was using it wasnt dbol..probably s'zol as its quick to clear and pretty mild in terms of speed gains. they call it one of the more 'honest' steroids as it also has few or mild sides.
when he went to a cocktail of stanozolol and anapolan that was a huge mistake. rumour was he also aqueous test. Anapolan/Anadrol is really easy to detect, even in the 80s. If you take it within 4 weeks of an event it'll show traces. Ben apparently took it on the day, and had been for a while. That stuff makes you a gorilla.
Back in the late 50s and 60s dbol was estimated to take 0.3-0.5s off of your 100m time. that was dbol on its own, and anapolan makes dbol look like a protein drink. Give Usain a year of dbol or adrol with some stanazolol and he'd running a 9.1.
Similarly if you give the entire 100m field the drugs they had in the 60s and 70s, and the time for a 100m medallist would be a 9.5.
@@timn4481 show me a source of those certain substances shaving off certain amount of time off. It all really depends really on how you really take advantage of it, how you train with the extra capacity added by the substance, the immediate gains in speed itself are very minimal.
So the only athletes that use peds that get caught LOL.
Even for ben it took 7 years go get caught.
He won olympic medals in 84 as well mind so more than just an average sprinter at the time, think he did 10 flat in 85 then 9.95 I think in 86 which was fastest at sea level at the time too and just .02 off Calvin's wr
He had been taking Test and Winny since 1981.
Juiced up 👍
why final is for one time
make it three
The lance armstrong of sprinting.
I would say so except lance didnt get caught during his career
@@отпирайте also Ben didn't boast his ability
@@elijahebbert6884 came in, did his thing, and left
@@отпирайте he never got caught ,,,, Lance Armstrong failed four drug test ...www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-04-17/armstrong-tested-positive-for-steroids-four-times-in-1999-tour
Ben Johnson never counseled others to take drugs.
He said himself he was tacking steroid's in between races but never in races
I mean thats how they all do it, they take peds in the training phase and come to competitions clean with all of the peds cleared out of the system
@Sto So he injured his hamstring not long before the race, so he most likely didnt let enough time pass between the last dose and test. There’s also the theory that his drink was tainted. Ben had been using since 1981 and that was his first positive.
@Sto So www.thestar.com/news/canada/2019/01/13/secret-1988-olympic-report-goes-behind-the-scenes-of-ben-johnsons-drug-test-hearing.html
Fabb
Just finishing the new Ben Johnson book The Fastest Man outstanding book it goes into way more detail of Ben’s Problems lays it all out he was screwed big time especially that 1988 Olympic 100m because we all know Mr Lewis was positive with a number of other American Athletes at their Trials yet the USA Track & Field let them go to the Olympics outrageous Mr Lewis never told u about this did he till he was caught out 12 years later! But at the Time all the hippocrite could say say was how dirty Ben Johnson was because he beat him regularly & took his World Record twice this Man Mr Lewis should be ashamed the way he carried on stinks of another American Cheat Lance Armstrong both got Egos the size of Texas & this is why the rest of the World will never cheer for Americans in International Competition period to Brass to Loud look at me how good am I etc
LMAO he started racing horses
interesting
Lamentablemente años después se confirmó que se dopaba
why olympic track and fields for only for one make it threee
steroids is a helluva drug
If he had been you bank manager ...hhuuh ...
5:00
Wet surface !!! wtf !!
Any sprinter that is top 5 in the world are juicers ..... Ben was just better at juicing then everyone else .....the worst country is the USA for being the king of the juice king countries
So weird seeing so many Caucasian guys running the 100m. It threw me off!
Ended up as a circus act in Japan
rosrebel nah he’s doing coaching in canada right now
And who are you?
Ben johnson took drugs in 1988 Olympic...chhi..chhi
Doping
Stop
Im watching drugs highlight lmao
But youre still here ya dummy.
Man what a horrible start tho
Bo
So Sad he Cheated
steroid abuse or food abude hehehe
Carl Lewis was on steroids too, he should have never been given Johnson's medal. USADA are an army of hypocrites, allowing a man who failed 3 drug tests to compete.
He cheated in 88 Olympics games in Seoul.
It was a norm back then for all the athletes in all sports around the world
Twilight living not to mention usa ”losing” their 1984 olympcs drug test results
@Twilight living lewis was tested positive at us trials but USA decided to cover it up, Christie never admitted to anything of the such, he was found initially positive at the Olympics but was proven to be something not classed as a banned substance so reinstated straight away. 2 yrs after Christie retired in 99 he ran a charity bet race with some mates and was found to be part of that dodgy scam where lots of athletes were suddenly bein found guilty of drugs yet it wasnt very clear cut so most were let off (well the Americans were) where as the UK much stricter and never liked him anyway so threw him under the bus even tho he was retired and never actually competing anyway 🤷♂️
everyone did , he got caught.
@William Diemhert, Ben Johnson just got caught in a sea of fish, Years later: Hulk hogan (WWE) Barry Bonds & Jose Canseco(Baseball) all those stars where caught doing steroids and many more and those, who you haven't heard about, they just covered it well. Roid or not Ben Johnson was just a sacrifice at that time and ran among other cheats too, who just didn't get caught!
Massive cheater
Carl Lewis cheater
He wasn't the only one!!! He just got caught.
Who wants to watch a cheat
Us.
you
greatest cheater
Fuck that shit.
Carl Lewis is.
If you believe that, you're very naive.