His intelligence, eloquence and perspective on an obscure sport that I follow from a continent away will always be appreciated. May his friends and family eventually find peace with a life lost too soon.
Two things. First, I love the dig about Armstrong at the end. Spoken by someone who, like thousands of cycling fans, still feel hurt about the irreparable damage he did to cycling with his actions. Second, heard the tragic news today about the death of Richard Moore earlier in the week. Our enjoyment of cycling will never quite be the same without him on the "The Cycling Podcast" providing humour and insight. We have lost a great.
@@pr-tj5by OK let's break it down for you to understand then : There is no way lance would beat Johnson in a 100m running sprint ...... So if that statement made no sense to you then you either think that lance would be Johnson in a 100m running sprint or you don't know who they are, I've actually asked 9 people if they think lance would beat Johnson in a 100m running sprint and they all said no way lance beats him, If you google both people you'll find that Johnson was a 100m track sprinter but lance was actually a cyclist..... You've got your sports mixed up, Just google both of them , have a read up about them and then you'll know what I'm meaning, then it will make sense to you, Good luck
@@garethhancock8525 And that's exactly why what you're saying makes no sense whatsoever We're not talking about a sprinter racing against a multi time Tour de France winner lol We're talking about the level of Cheating Lance Armstrong did compared to the Cheating that Ben Johnson did.... Do you not know what level of Cheating Armstrong did to maintain competitive cycling? I suggest you Google Lance Armstrong Cheat Why would you think I was talking about them sprint racing on a track lmao
@ 1pr007 - OK let's look at the msgs...... I said that Johnson beats lance in a 100m track sprint...... You said that that statement makes no sense........ But Johnson is a track sprinter and lance is a cyclist, I'm not sure why you don't understand that, I was just trying To Help you understand the reason that Johnson would beat lance, they are in different sports, was just trying To Help you out. Hope this clears up your confusion, cheers
All the races since have been even dirtier by the year! And they were all doping/dopers! They just pinned it on Ben to avoid the real issue of total corruption in sport. We love a fall guy so we don’t have to deal the scary difficult magnitude of the real problem!
The amount of stimulant found in Carl Lewis' blood (6 ppm) would be considered a negative test today, and the USOC accepted the explanation of inadvertent use. Lewis is not anywhere near the category of these others mentioned.
🤡🤡🤡 Give me a break man! 🤣The only thing that rivalled Lewis being pumped full of drugs is his insufferable & pumped up ego!👎 All those gold medals he won in the US Summer Olympics in 84’? The detection for steroids was virtually nonexistent back then. If you were to take his blood samples from that era now under testing in the modern era, I’m sure he’d be guilty as hell and lose all of his medals!
Getting under 9.5 is virtually impossible for humans. 9.3 is almost half a second quicker than what Ben ran in Seoul. Not sure about that one but I'd like to see it.
The women's 1500m final at the 2012 Olympics is probably the dirtiest in history. Several of them were doping, something like 2nd, 4th and 6th place ended up being the medal winners, something dodgy like that
Carl Lewis was an all time great. A true athletics legend. Ben was barely a rival until he started using steroids. Carl tested positive for minuscule amounts of a non PED. He was cleared, and rightly so. Lewis was not a PED user! Lewis on steroids is sub 9.75 and also would jump 30 feet!
Bren Walsh ben was on drugs since 81. He was just better. Drugs are not a magic pill. He trained intensevely 4-5 hours a day 6 days a week for years until he started to get really good
Mark Phelps is incredible but you must not forget Usain bolt. Carl Lewis did cheat but was one of the greatest athletes of all time. The drug scandal does tarnish his greatness
@gerry findon that was the point I had in mind. Swimming has many different categories which are more or less the same. Not in athletics where every event is completely different. Even the 200 metre is lot different from 100. That takes nothing away from Phelps.
@@tonylouisvisionvideography3469 He never cheated. He proved that in a court of law. The substances he was apparently caught with were merely components of medicine and herbal health supplements. They were not HARDCORE STEROIDS. Learn the difference.
@@pr-tj5by Every sprinter on the Jamaican national team tested positive: Nesta Carter, Asafa Powell, Yohan Blake . . . but the fastest of them all is clean? Whatever! You are the ultimate moron.
That was an incredible talk, incredibly banal ! It was like they picked somebody outa a dole queue in Edinburgh n asked em to read out a Wikipedia page.
His intelligence, eloquence and perspective on an obscure sport that I follow from a continent away will always be appreciated. May his friends and family eventually find peace with a life lost too soon.
Deeply saddened by his passing. Loved everything he wrote and spoke. A wonderful journalist and author.
Two things. First, I love the dig about Armstrong at the end. Spoken by someone who, like thousands of cycling fans, still feel hurt about the irreparable damage he did to cycling with his actions. Second, heard the tragic news today about the death of Richard Moore earlier in the week. Our enjoyment of cycling will never quite be the same without him on the "The Cycling Podcast" providing humour and insight. We have lost a great.
I liked the way this guy presented this talk. Very calm and composed
R.I.P
RIP Richard.
Lance Armstrong makes Ben Johnson look like a choir boy!
Lol there's no way lance would beat Johnson in 100m running sprint, you got your sports mixed up, totally different sport
@@garethhancock8525 Your message made no sense whatsoever
@@pr-tj5by OK let's break it down for you to understand then :
There is no way lance would beat Johnson in a 100m running sprint ...... So if that statement made no sense to you then you either think that lance would be Johnson in a 100m running sprint or you don't know who they are, I've actually asked 9 people if they think lance would beat Johnson in a 100m running sprint and they all said no way lance beats him,
If you google both people you'll find that Johnson was a 100m track sprinter but lance was actually a cyclist..... You've got your sports mixed up, Just google both of them , have a read up about them and then you'll know what I'm meaning, then it will make sense to you, Good luck
@@garethhancock8525 And that's exactly why what you're saying makes no sense whatsoever
We're not talking about a sprinter racing against a multi time Tour de France winner lol
We're talking about the level of Cheating Lance Armstrong did compared to the Cheating that Ben Johnson did....
Do you not know what level of Cheating Armstrong did to maintain competitive cycling?
I suggest you Google Lance Armstrong Cheat
Why would you think I was talking about them sprint racing on a track lmao
@ 1pr007 - OK let's look at the msgs...... I said that Johnson beats lance in a 100m track sprint...... You said that that statement makes no sense........ But Johnson is a track sprinter and lance is a cyclist, I'm not sure why you don't understand that, I was just trying To Help you understand the reason that Johnson would beat lance, they are in different sports, was just trying To Help you out. Hope this clears up your confusion, cheers
I love the truth. Thank you for the awe insightful work you've completed. Well done.
RIP Richard 🙏🏿🙏🏿
All the races since have been even dirtier by the year! And they were all doping/dopers! They just pinned it on Ben to avoid the real issue of total corruption in sport. We love a fall guy so we don’t have to deal the scary difficult magnitude of the real problem!
Mark Metternich Photography, LLC even today less than 4% of admitted dopers by anonymous study (some dopers may have lied there too) get caught
This man speaks well and tells the truth.
I am grateful for that.
If it was Carl Lewis that was caught the test result would have been buried.
There were about a dozen failures in Track at the 84 Olympics the results were stolen out of a safe before they could be announced
The rumour I heard was that Johnson's test result was leaked to the press by someone in the testing lab who feared it would be covered up.
The amount of stimulant found in Carl Lewis' blood (6 ppm) would be considered a negative test today, and the USOC accepted the explanation of inadvertent use. Lewis is not anywhere near the category of these others mentioned.
A different kind of asshole? Don’t judge him by today’s standards but those of the day. If he hadn’t been protected he’d have been suspended too.
🤡🤡🤡 Give me a break man! 🤣The only thing that rivalled Lewis being pumped full of drugs is his insufferable & pumped up ego!👎
All those gold medals he won in the US Summer Olympics in 84’? The detection for steroids was virtually nonexistent back then. If you were to take his blood samples from that era now under testing in the modern era, I’m sure he’d be guilty as hell and lose all of his medals!
Ben Johnson did more for the sport of sprinting than any man in history.
Not accurate
Dirtiest race in history was 2008 giro d Italia.
And no reporter has had the guts and persistence to report the story
Ben said with today's track, shoes. training, [and presumably drugs] he'd run a 9.3. I believe him.
Getting under 9.5 is virtually impossible for humans. 9.3 is almost half a second quicker than what Ben ran in Seoul. Not sure about that one but I'd like to see it.
God bless him 🙏
Despite being abandoned and wrapped up in a conspiracy, Bullet Ben is still the best in 100 meters mark. His time would last a century
Bolt?
The women's 1500m final at the 2012 Olympics is probably the dirtiest in history. Several of them were doping, something like 2nd, 4th and 6th place ended up being the medal winners, something dodgy like that
MO FARRAH WAS ON THE HOT SAUCE LOL
Carl Lewis has always been a punk & still is. Ben kicked his adds & it’s as simple as that
european t & f meet organisers could not afford 2 kings
Carl Lewis was an all time great. A true athletics legend. Ben was barely a rival until he started using steroids.
Carl tested positive for minuscule amounts of a non PED. He was cleared, and rightly so. Lewis was not a PED user! Lewis on steroids is sub 9.75 and also would jump 30 feet!
Bren Walsh : Can't tolerate Carl Lewis because of his arrogance.
And your on crack.. Do your research first before you speak.
They were all jacked.
LOL, Carl was on steroids as was Ben Johnson. The only athletes in that race to NOT test positive was Robson Da Silva or Calvin Smith.
Bren Walsh ben was on drugs since 81. He was just better. Drugs are not a magic pill. He trained intensevely 4-5 hours a day 6 days a week for years until he started to get really good
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...and the greatest Olympian is now Michael Phelps
Mark Phelps is incredible but you must not forget Usain bolt. Carl Lewis did cheat but was one of the greatest athletes of all time. The drug scandal does tarnish his greatness
@@tonylouisvisionvideography3469 I agree Usain Bolt will probably the best of modern times.
@gerry findon that was the point I had in mind. Swimming has many different categories which are more or less the same. Not in athletics where every event is completely different. Even the 200 metre is lot different from 100. That takes nothing away from Phelps.
@@tonylouisvisionvideography3469
He never cheated. He proved that in a court of law. The substances he was apparently caught with were merely components of medicine and herbal health supplements. They were not HARDCORE STEROIDS. Learn the difference.
@@fender1000100 Ok, Thanks for the info I was unaware and just assumed based on some media news I heard
Usain Bolt was the dirtiest drug cheat in track and field history. Not Ben.
CanadaMath, Absolute Crap!
@@pr-tj5by You think Bolt was clean? If so, you are either extremely naive or your karyotype shows a trisomy.
@@CanadaMath Someone who was serious enough to risk everything doesn't go to McDonalds for chicken nuggets ffs, absolute Crap!
@@pr-tj5by Every sprinter on the Jamaican national team tested positive: Nesta Carter, Asafa Powell, Yohan Blake . . . but the fastest of them all is clean? Whatever! You are the ultimate moron.
@@CanadaMath So where is Bolts positive test??
That was an incredible talk, incredibly banal !
It was like they picked somebody outa a dole queue in Edinburgh n asked em to read out a Wikipedia page.
I can run faster. I did 100m at 9.2. Secs. Easy. No.drugz needed