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...starts and a petulant protest by Great Britain's Linford Christie, who was disqualified for two of them, before the gun sounded for good. Bailey ran down Frankie Fredericks of Namibia and Ato Boldon of Trinidad to become the world's fastest human--ever. He also helped erase the Seoul stigma of Ben Johnson, who like Bailey was a Jamaican running for Canada. "I'm not trying to do what Ben did, or undo what Ben did in Seoul," he said. "My name is Donovan Bailey...
Since Bailey crossed the finish line at a time of 9.84 seconds, reporters, announcers and commentators have rejoiced in Canada's vindication after the gold medal was stripped from runner Ben Johnson for drug use in the 1988 Seoul Olympics...
...said, "Don't worry, I'll get another one." He did, but only as a consequence of the greatest scandal in Olympic history: the 1988 100 m. Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson, whose motto was "When the gun goes off, the race is over," flashed across the finish line in Seoul in a world-record time of 9.79 sec. Unfortunately, when his urine test came in, it was all over for Johnson. Lewis, the second-place finisher, was awarded the gold...
...supposed to win. I let everyone down." A few days later she won the 800-m free in unexciting time and so left Barcelona with what almost every other athlete there would have rejoiced to own: one silver medal and another gold to go with the three from Seoul. But she was depressed and ashamed, and she quit swimming...
...achieving. He claimed his first world record (19 ft. 2 1/4 in.) in 1984, the same year the Soviet boycott forced him to miss the L.A. Olympics (two weeks before, he jumped six inches higher than the eventual gold medalist). He won a gold of his own at Seoul in 1988, and then set his sights on 20 ft.--a seemingly superhuman barrier that like the four-minute mile and the 8-ft. high jump, was regarded for years as insurmountable. He crashed through the ceiling in March 1991 and then, during an eight-day rampage, mocked his own achievement...