Forgot to mention the passes he got from our olympic committee for also failing drug test ! Multiple times, carl lewis was dirty too

@stevenjohnson7720

3 ай бұрын

YES!

@broncosbest6441

3 ай бұрын

The only one who ran clean in that race was the Brazilian Roberto Da Silva. There was a program about it on U.K. TV years ago

@jonfklein

3 ай бұрын

Could be. There's an interview with Calvin Smith out there where he basically says that Lewis was on drugs during those years too. I think Ben got caught because he had an injury earlier in the season (hamstring?) and threw caution to the wind in deciding to use steroids to recover so close to the olympics. He wanted to win so bad that he just rolled the dice and ended up getting caught.

@fingersm

3 ай бұрын

Garbage human

@thepavementendsnow1901

3 ай бұрын

Carl had a better doctor! lol Ben was so much faster…

In Carl Lewis' mind he's the only cleanest sprinter to have ever have ran.

@ShaneCrawfordGreatness

3 ай бұрын

isn't the hypocrisy hilarious?

@IvyMay-qn2ys

3 ай бұрын

He'd still piss hot today. His jaw was the epitome of a steroid use symptom.

@ianlaing4935

2 ай бұрын

Usain bolt is

@oscarmoss1950

7 күн бұрын

😂😂😂❤❤❤​@@IvyMay-qn2ys

But HE was DIRTY too!!! Dude is as morally bankrupt as they come! You can hear it in his words defending the use of drugs and saying it was good for the sport because it generated interest. So much HYPOCRISY!!

Carl was a cheater as well. Can’t stand these liars

@ab2abblank607

3 ай бұрын

Tell us how he cheated, please.

@boosnakejones

3 ай бұрын

@@ab2abblank607 every runner in that race failed drug test

@decathlete2000

3 ай бұрын

yup@@boosnakejones

@jollymolly2521

3 ай бұрын

@@ab2abblank607 Google The Guardian's story on cheating in track & field in the '80s/'90s and read about Carl Lewis and his special "cough syrup" and missed drug tests. They didn't have the tests back then that there are now. Ben Johnson took something he KNEW they could test for. That's how badly he wanted to beat Carl Lewis who acted like he wasn't also taking "supplements."

@Thereallevan

3 ай бұрын

@@ab2abblank607 we stopped believing in the fairytale that during the cold war, the Sowjet Union doped their athletes to the gills. And the US (all the anti doping agencies are there) won because of their talent and hard work. Gtfoh

Carl Lewis failed three drug tests during the Olympic trials, the same year. He shouldn't have even been in that race with Johnson. Did Dan Patrick bring that up in the interview? I hope so, if not he is gutless.

@theprofessor8589

3 ай бұрын

He was not doing ROIDS like 'Big Ben'!! Carl 'failed' his tests because he was on pain medication, not ROIDS, so you are 'gutless' for not doing your research, HATIN on Lewis!

@fingersm

3 ай бұрын

Course not

@ab2abblank607

3 ай бұрын

For having the active ingredient of a cough suppressant in his system?

@theprofessor8589

3 ай бұрын

@@ab2abblank607 Some people on here just want to be ignorant for no reason.

@timn4481

Ай бұрын

@@theprofessor8589 your comment is ironic. for the definition of irony google 'alanis morissette'. ;-)

In 2003, Wade Exum, the United States Olympic Committee's director of drug control administration from 1991 to 2000, gave copies of documents to Sports Illustrated that revealed that some 100 American athletes had failed drug tests from 1988 to 2000, arguing that they should have been prevented from competing in the Olympics but were nevertheless cleared to compete.

@pleasureseekers80s

2 ай бұрын

Lewis had tested positive at the Olympic Trials for pseudoephedrine, ephedrine and phenylpropanolamine but escaped a ban after the US Olympic Committee accepted his reasoning that the substances must have been consumed inadvertently.

@nikolaivista920

2 ай бұрын

Now you know why Vlaidmir Putin and the Russians call BS when the IOC bans their athletes or their nation from competitions. Is good for the goose but not good for the gander!!! True injustice!

@dwaynegreen1786

Ай бұрын

True. And then Exum’s interview and the documentary was scrubbed off the internet.

Carl was also doped. Crazy how he can talk like he was a clean athlete. Why was this not pointed out during the interview? Dan you were pretty soft with him and fed the lie and his ego. So much for good reporting.

@ab2abblank607

3 ай бұрын

Doped? On what? The common stimulant that's found in over-the-counter cough medicine?

@johnstirling6597

3 ай бұрын

Carl is great at crafting the story, Ben was wearing the "black" cowboy hat and of course Carl was the saint. The truth is, history has shown everyone in the 1988 100 meter final has a degree of suspicion attached and Carl is not any different.

@decathlete2000

3 ай бұрын

not only that but all the 8 finalists were caught dirty 😅😂🤣... and i bet 99,999999% olympians/world level athletes are doping

@johnstirling6597

3 ай бұрын

@@decathlete2000 Just look at the recent "unexplained" death of Charles Kipsang and look at the history of doping in Kenya.

@Stravinsky75

3 ай бұрын

He tested positive for cold medication at a level that would not have given a positive test today because doctors say it is unlikely to affect performance.

Are you kidding me? Carl Lewis on the moral high ground? Lmao.

@anthonymcken6050

3 ай бұрын

He's been that way his whole career and still is. I've always found him to be obnoxious.

@toddm9501

3 ай бұрын

He's got the correct person to interview him. Dem dan. He never met a conservative, that he could interview honestly.

@jollymolly2521

3 ай бұрын

Huh? Are you not fond of "cough syrup?" Everybody loves cough syrup, don't they? LOL! I'll say this much for Carl Lewis - he's always been up his own ass. It's OK if he takes "cough syrup" but everyone else has to be clean.

@joef3423

3 ай бұрын

​@@anthonymcken6050 Everybody in that race was on peds.

@topfitnessssss

3 ай бұрын

And ?? He never abused steroids like that fool of Ben did, what's your problem ??

As one of the most successful drug cheats in history ,he has the gall to speak about Ben.

dirty Carl calling the kettle black....ben johnsen was amazing

@ezg2000

2 ай бұрын

Carl had his friend put steroids in Ben's beer. Carl set him up.

@B41L3Y

2 ай бұрын

Your mouth is amazing

@B41L3Y

2 ай бұрын

@@ezg2000lame ass comment

@damon123jones

2 ай бұрын

@@B41L3Y you mean your moms mouth right

My track and field coach was good friends with Charlie Francis. My coach said that there were at least 7 runners in that final on drugs.

@pictureofmyjunk2279

6 күн бұрын

There were 8.

Wow. I lost serious respect for Dan Patrick here. Always been one of my favourites but he's seriously lacking in integrity to push the narrative that only Ben was dirty. The guy you're interviewing is too, Dan! I expect this from Carl, but I'm disappointed to say the least in how Patrick has chosen to come at this.

@IvyMay-qn2ys

3 ай бұрын

Exactly, the entire field that day was pissing hot. Lewis was a poster boy for steroid jaw. He was a black Roger Ramjet. It was only because Johnson wasn't a US athlete that he got hung out to dry n

In a dictionary, right behind the word hypocrite should be Carl Lewis' picture.

I remember the look on carl Lewis's face during the race, when he looked at Johnson. It was like what the ..! Johnson was running like a mad man! It was disingenuous for him to speak about Johnson's drug use and not mention his own ban for stimulants.

@duanebrown3016

3 ай бұрын

Probably but he did set the record for the 100 at his high school I believe he was 15

@user-um5dj5cy8b

3 ай бұрын

Amen, brother.

@user-um5dj5cy8b

3 ай бұрын

@@duanebrown3016 lmao

@terencedennis3972

3 ай бұрын

He was like , Wow his steroids are way stronger than mines lol

@user-um5dj5cy8b

3 ай бұрын

@@terencedennis3972 rotflmao

They should give Ben back his win. Carl was on steroids also. Ben just had the best lol

@Ghostmanriding

Ай бұрын

How true,lol.

@PaulJohnson-zk1yr

20 күн бұрын

They both should be out. The true champion of that race was Calvin Smith

If its a American than they can do no wrong. That hold field was probably dirty. They were just pissed cause carl got blown away. Carl failed many a test.

@ShaneCrawfordGreatness

3 ай бұрын

as an American- i cannot stand Carl Lewis. stop with that nonsense.

@IvyMay-qn2ys

3 ай бұрын

Exactly!! The USA had the best chemists money could buy. Only the Russians were beating them but that was for strength events.

@zumaanandrade3961

3 ай бұрын

No Cananda had the best dope back then. The thing was America could not detect it but they blamed Ben for it anyway.@@IvyMay-qn2ys

@TrojansFirst

5 сағат бұрын

Carl never tested positive for steroids.

@user-um5dj5cy8b

4 сағат бұрын

@@TrojansFirst he failed at least 3 tests. But you go right on thinking that.

Ben Johnson said after the race one of Lewis’s people handed him a beer He said the beer was spiked with steroids and that’s why he was caught He admitted to doing steroids but said the stuff he got caught with wasn’t what he was taking

@IvyMay-qn2ys

3 ай бұрын

The entire field ended up testing positive either then or not long after. Johnson got pinged because he was Canadian.

@ren17x50

3 ай бұрын

Not the Brazilian runner or Calvin Smith. All the others were caught at some point. Those two runners also never win big races ever after those Olympics

@pictureofmyjunk2279

6 күн бұрын

​@ren17x50 Really we going with that 🙄. If you think one of them was clean in that race U slower then a clean sprinter.

Carl Lewis was a hypercrite he did the same thing so he no better then Ben Johnson was his problem is he is a sorry loser and disrespected new jersey because that's where he is from not Texas

@umainebearman

3 ай бұрын

How do you disrespect New Jersey when it has no respect. It's a literally trash dumpster.

I can't listen to Carl without thinking of his horrible and delightful rendition of The Star Spangled Banner.

@chuckfinley3542

3 ай бұрын

I was in the stands that day, and as a musician I thought: I’ve never heard a famous person sing the National Anthem in so many keys at once.

@kl1172

3 ай бұрын

Uh oh…

@labynoe

3 ай бұрын

@@chuckfinley3542 Q: What key is it in? Carl Lewis: ALL of them!🤣

@juanestadian8471

3 ай бұрын

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣@@chuckfinley3542

@emjay2045

3 ай бұрын

@@labynoe😂😂😂

Ben was like, "Hey, I was competing in a level playing field. I'm just the only one that got caught."

@zumaanandrade3961

3 ай бұрын

What Ben was using America could not detect it.

Carl Lewis was dirty too. Only Ben Johnson got vilified.

@DeeDee-tx8ll

Ай бұрын

same as Linford Christie who was in the same race but ended up winning an Olympic gold in 1992 then gets caught years later taking Nandrolone

Carl is damn dishonest: ...how can he think Ben is dirty while being himself?

Lewis also tested positive that same year.

He was dirty too !!! It’s in the 30 for 30 documentary!!!!

The title says the “truth”? He’s still lying about this. It’s truly unbelievable. I remember how arrogant he was at the Olympics watching as a kid. Come clean Carl. 🤡

This can't be recent/real!!! This interview has to be a joke considering all we know about that time now. I must be in the simulation.

Carl should lay low like Lance Armstrong should have after his initial retirement; I mean seriously.

Years later we found out all the racers in this event including Carl Lewis were drugged. Carl did more drugs then all of them combined. Ben kicked all their asses that day and that year. He was so much better then Carl. Carl cheated. And he acts like he did nothing wrong. Carl also was found years after he had cheated with drugs about 15 times.

@SteinJohnsen-iu6bf

3 күн бұрын

" Carl did more drugs then all of them combined". You are really unserious.

Still one of the Best 100 mtrs Races 🏁 of all time ⏲️ Ben Johnson was Electric out of the Blocks

@zumaanandrade3961

3 ай бұрын

he was also benching 300lbs

The one thing that can not be denied...Carl ran like a gazelle. Poetry in motion.

Two of the biggest tools of the sporting world in the same room…

1988 olympics was the roid olympics. Flo jo was juiced to the max too.

Please don't let Carl sing!!!

Dan Patrick is consistent - consistent in interrupting all of his guests!

They say the majority of athletes in the Olympics have used P.E.D.s so I am not sure why this is even being discussed.

Liar Lewis!!

Track and Field was like Cycling.... Ben won the race... the fastest doped guy among all the other doped guys... Same with Lance... a legend... doped winner in a field of doped contenders

Ben won on a level playing field.

This is 36 years ago and he's still crying the blues. He was whining back then and still doing it, GET OVER IT! How many athletes back then and how many athletes now are still using band substances? Doesn't make it right, the science of masking is better now than it was 36 years ago. For Ben's one mistake when he was 26 years old, Carl is reminding the world 36 years later. I worked at a gym in NewMarket Ontario Canada where Ben did his strength training after he returned to "normal life" and he was never the same after all the ridicule he took from that one incident. He was stripped of all the medals he won prior. How does the athletic commission know that he was doping prior to the 88 Olympics. The pressure he must have felt to beat Carl must have been immense.

Wait, and Carl was clean? Come on.

I wanted to talk about how great of an athlete he was and how we all rooted for him so many years etc...but all I can say is how come after so many decades he still dont have one wrinkle and looks so young still !!!!!! Wasn't Carl also doped?

Some big companies wanted him to win!

The hubris of this man to sit on that stage and say these things is utterly despicable. The binary of Good vs. Bad in a sport where EVERY mofo is on something is insane.

Ben did not want to shake his hand because Carl had either pissed him off for something or said something bad about him before the race. Nonetheless, that was an amazing race.

Carl was glowing on gear as well lol 😂😅

9.79 is the record. They’re all doped up. He got beat. Face it.

Well, If both guys are dirty, and Carl STILL got dusted...then there you have it! Ben don *Molly Whopped* that azz! 🤣

@nickcampbell8619

3 ай бұрын

yep, so given that Johnson was somehow the ONLY track athlete IN THE WORLD that 'tested positive' at that olympics, there should have just been NO gold medal. Should have been Lewis with a silver, Christie bronze. No gold, cuz they were all dirty, and got their dirty asses kicked. You don't deserve a gold for that imo

Carl you know the truth about doping

Carl was also on the juice

Before Noah Lyles, there was this guy

I was just about to write a good comment about Lewis for being a good sport and a gentleman until read the comments on here😬you guys are going HAM on this dude

Carl Lewis is a delusional fraud. He ranks as one of the greatest creeps in sports history.

HE'S GOT SOME NERVE!!!

At the end he seems to say that if the sport is completely clean, the times in the 100 would be 11 flat. Pretty well admitting his guilt and the guilt of all the top guys.

Outstanding perspective!!!

Bens mistake, he got caught. Drugs or no drugs, Ben was the fastest.

@markmcdonald1663

3 ай бұрын

Stupid comment Bribe or no bribe, Putin he had the most votes countered

@frozendivots1564

3 ай бұрын

Cheating or no cheating, Biden had the most votes

@letsbereal7897

3 ай бұрын

lol Carl with his braces 😬 because of his jaw growth smh, I remember countless track guys talking about his audacity when talking about steroid use..

@halo3tes4

3 ай бұрын

He failed multiple drug tests , the powers behind Usa track gave him a pass .... carl lewis is a liar, claimed it was cold meds @real7897

@judahsong

3 ай бұрын

Ben never had times like that prior to using

Carl Lewis was my hero growing up. To find out all these years later he would become this lying cynical two faced coward is shattering. Carl, drop the ego tell the truth and own up.

that eye rub at :37 seconds means something......

Back then it was rumors and more rumors of track and field athletes testing positive but no actual prof. False accusations that really hurt the sport....

Carl was on the juice too. Missing tests etc. he’s delusional

Charlie Jones on the call. Amazing. Best announcer of that era.

@BDQ1975

3 ай бұрын

I've remember watching this race live on TV that Friday night in September, 1988. I had video taped this race and could always quote his call, word for word.

@salvadorealiberto

3 ай бұрын

@@BDQ1975 That's excellent.

Carl Lewis , in my opinion is the greatest Track and Field athlete ever BUT Ben Johnson beat him on a level playing field that day- I don’t believe Carl is being honest at all and there were many positive tests to prove that. Nobody can dispute his greatness - easily the best Long Jumper the world has ever seen- if he was competing right now in his prime, he would never be beaten.

@sportbikejesus6297

3 ай бұрын

Fact: what was in Ben’s blood wasn’t in Carl’s blood. You can fail a drug test for many reasons (OTC and prescription meds have substances that are banned). Carl was positive for a cough medication. Was he faking his respiratory illness in the pursuit of an edge? You’re free to believe yes. Was the edge from the cough meds as effective as Ben’s doping program? Not even close.

Carl Lewis took steroids too! Despicable man. 🤦‍♀️

He was also a cheat. Disgraceful by him.

Everyone was doping. Ben won. Stop pretending to be "Mr. Clean" Carl.

Carl Lewis the dirtiest "clean " athlete of those olympics

I remember watching this like 😲

To be fair, antidoping in 1988 is not the same as in 2024. Without going into a lot of details, in 1988 only 2 types of doping were clear and that was anabolic steroids for speed and power events and blood doping/epo for endurance events. If the IOC busted every athlete who tested positive for banned substances other than steroids and epo, I estimate that over 50 percent of the Olympic athletes would have been sent home. Most stimulants at that time were added to the ban list in 1988 only a couple months before the Olympics Games. At that time, stimulants were everywhere, in supplements and many over-the-counter medicines. In 1988, Carl and several other USA athletes tested positive at the U.S. Olympic Trials, but stated their stimulant usage was inadvertent. It is a fair debate whether Carl knowingly took stimulants; however, 2 important things to know are, Carl was tested at the Olympics and did not compete with stimulants in his system at the 1988 Olympics. In terms of performance enhancing, stimulants are a world of difference from anabolic steroids usage. And in the case of Ben Johnson, testing was so crude back then that if he had stopped doping a week before the games, he probably would not have been caught, but he was literally doping the day before his race. - Not saying Carl is completely innocent but the Ben Johnson comparison is not fair.

@HamishGarland

2 ай бұрын

Johnson did stop taking steriods before the games, he wasn't taking the substance he tested positive for, and it was in a form that is broken down inside the body in hours. He was taking steriods, but he was also stitched up.

Carl Lewis was mad that he got smoked in that race he knew he couldn't beat Ben Johnson Ben was so explosive out the blocks and had amazing top end speed Carl was never going to beat Ben Johnson in that race or any other race stop the dam crying CL

There's not much to say It's been said by itself❤🎉

Oh man, Lewis is completely insufferable. Passive aggressive as they come and absolutely no grasp on reality.

They were all 'dirty'.

In a short time after that 1988 Olympics race, I recall John Madden said that based upon the bulked-up physique Johnson had, that Johnson got his performance out of a bottle. And those words came prior to Johnson's doping test being made public. The attributed source of that was from his five-minute radio segment he had with morning radio show host Gene Nelson on radio station KSFO, San Francisco.

It’s hard to listen to this guy and take his comments about Ben Johnson seriously. Every single runner in that final eventually tested positive. It’s common knowledge now. Why wouldn’t the interviewer mention that? I gather it was a precondition for the interview.

The actual watching Johnson move like that is a good spectacle.

As long as Carl didn’t dry snitch…. He let the process work itself out. Good man.

@imaratspal

3 ай бұрын

Carl Lewis himself tested positive in pre-Olympic testing 3x but the American track team hid the results. This guy's a complete hypocrite. Ain't no "good man." Do you think he wore braces because he just wanted to straighten his teeth? That's because of jaw growth due to the stuff he'd been taking.

Imagine being the guy who got 4th place. Sure he gets a medal but he missed the opportunity to be on the podium at all.

Every single person in that race got popped eventually for steroids except Lewis.

The non-boycotted Olympic Games (both summer and winter) during the Cold War Era were a totally different animal. It was an Us v. Them mentality being played by both the US and the USSR where both sides did what was needed for the political stability of the entire globe in which it brought. The unofficial official stance of the two central governments, "fine so long as to not get caught." That should never be denied.

The difference was Ben got caught Carl didn't!!

This guys ability to lie with a straight face is nearly as good as his running 🏃, he was also caught talking steroids as was every sprinter in that final field, do a quick google and every one in that final was caught talking steroids in their career, Ben was just not as good at cheating as some others . ..Carl is complete narcissist.

@ab2abblank607

3 ай бұрын

Another FUD post. The internet failed to produce a single allegation of steroid use. Get your fiction straight.

@Bendoverandgrabyourankles

3 ай бұрын

@@ab2abblank607 FUD… I THINK YOU ARE A FUD WHITT. Countless coaches retired officials and teammates have confessed that top American athletes at the time were warned when testing would take place so they could pass. Flo-Jo never tested positive for anything either genius, I suppose you think she was clean too. He was on gear as was everyone in that race. There is an old saying if you don’t open your mouth people won’t know you are an idiot 🤫👋🏼

@alexisherrera4687

3 ай бұрын

Only one guy didn't

@Bendoverandgrabyourankles

3 ай бұрын

@@ab2abblank607 You are a FUD WHITT. Flo-Jo never tested positive either genius

@Bendoverandgrabyourankles

3 ай бұрын

@@ab2abblank607 Think you’re a FUD WHITT, Flo- never tested positive either genius.

To broaden a lot of the comments below. There were any number of "cheats" at the Seoul Olympics. It has been said quite a few more tested positive, but it was felt that silence was required officially, "for the good of the sport." All serious followers of track know fully well that a number of WRs (primarily on the women's side) set in the 1980s, are still standing in early 2024.

Give respect to Ben please

Carl ran dirty like most of the athletes in this contest. Ever the showman, he can't get enough of his own BS. Carl, you've never let that man out of your mind for what he did to you that day--beat your ass.

Lets remember that in 88, there was no out of competition drug testing.

Sh#t reporting . Carl and all the rest were dirty.

Lewis stepped into Christie's lane and should've been DQ'd

Johnson blew the doors off Lewis so bad that he ran out of lane eating dust. I don't care about the medal.

Dan has made a CAREER out of interrupting!! Legend but come on man!

All cheaters hate better cheaters.

Saw Carl win at Crystal Palace track meet in London in 1986. Coe too!

He was a drug cheat to. The whole field was. He is just a two faced liar.

So basically we all know Ben Johnson was the best of the best. The finals = juiced field regardless of if you believe in Santa or not.

absolute b.s. I talked to Ben. Carl and most of the other sprinters were all taking steriods. such utter lies here Carl.

Lewis and two of his training partners all took the same three types of banned stimulants and were caught at the 1988 US Olympic trials, according to the documents released by a disgruntled former senior US anti-doping official, Dr Wade Exum. But on appeal to their national Olympic committee, all were cleared of inadvertent doping. Two months later, at the Seoul Olympics, Lewis finished second in the 100 metres sprint. But when Canadian Ben Johnson failed his Olympic drug test, Lewis was awarded the 100m gold.

I really hope Carl would just come out and admit he used PED and turn a page for everyone. It's pointless to bring the secrets to the grave and live in denial for the rest of his life.

DO YOU HAVE A MIRROR DUDE?

Carl took shit too during his career and the drugs obviously didn't help his singing

Carl, Carl, Carl,

I've a question for Carl in 88 how many of you other than ben tasted positive in that race for doping