In the history of the Olympics, there's never been a controversy quite like what ensued over the 100 meter race at Seoul in 1988. The match brought together Carl Lewis (USA) and Ben Johnson ...Read allIn the history of the Olympics, there's never been a controversy quite like what ensued over the 100 meter race at Seoul in 1988. The match brought together Carl Lewis (USA) and Ben Johnson (Canada) who had been fierce competitors. Lewis was known as a savvy careerist who became ...Read allIn the history of the Olympics, there's never been a controversy quite like what ensued over the 100 meter race at Seoul in 1988. The match brought together Carl Lewis (USA) and Ben Johnson (Canada) who had been fierce competitors. Lewis was known as a savvy careerist who became an American hero at the previous Los Angeles Olympics. Johnson was his chief rival, consid...Read all
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*** 1/2 (out of 4)
Very good entry in the ESPN series takes a look at the 1988 Olympic games in Seoul, South Korea where the 100m race was won by Ben Johnson who defeated his rival Carl Lewis only to have the Gold taken from him when it came out that he was on steroids. 9.79* just really proves that it seems everyone in sports was taking steroids back in the day. With the recent stuff dealing with Lance Armstrong and the past decade of issues in baseball, it's just becoming more and more clear that the majority of people were using something at some point in their careers. This documentary not only covers that one race but also the previous years when Lewis was a king and Johnson was pretty much a nobody but we then see what happened to the two men over the next three years. What's so great about this is that director Daniel Gordon managed to interview all eight runners from that Olympic race and it was very interesting hearing from them all these years later. It's clear that Lewis is still extremely upset over the stuff while it appears Johnson has found peace with it. Fans of the sport or documentaries in general should really enjoy this as it contains some great human drama.
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- Nov 1, 2012
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