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re: 30 for 30: 9.79*
Posted on 10/9/12 at 10:57 pm to tiger2012
Posted on 10/9/12 at 10:57 pm to tiger2012
Yeah, the Jackson thing is really fascinating. And why would Johnson make up that he was sabotaged? He already admitted to using steroids, just not the one he tested positive for... I'm glad I watched it - sports mystery I had no idea about.
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Posted on 10/9/12 at 11:14 pm to LSUJuice
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Yeah, the Jackson thing is really fascinating. And why would Johnson make up that he was sabotaged? He already admitted to using steroids, just not the one he tested positive for... I'm glad I watched it - sports mystery I had no idea about.
I will say I had no idea Lewis was so involved with this conspiracy. I was 8 when '88 happened, and I just knew Johnson was DQ'ed.
I thought it was a good episode. Just a great series 30 for 30 is.
What I found crazy was that the US Trials positive in '88 wasn't reported till '03. How does that happen?
Posted on 10/9/12 at 11:17 pm to Wild Thang
Because Carl Lewis was the cash cow for everyone
Posted on 10/9/12 at 11:20 pm to supatigah
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Because Carl Lewis was the cash cow for everyone
It would seem so. I wish at the end, the guy would have said who tested positive before he threw them out.
Posted on 10/9/12 at 11:23 pm to supatigah
my neighbor ran in the calgary olympics I believe in the 800 that year and he and his wife stayed in teh olympic village hotel in Calgary and they said the scene that night in the hotel when the buzz went around that johnson tested positive was raucous to say the least. he has some very cool pics.
Posted on 10/9/12 at 11:23 pm to Wild Thang
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What I found crazy was that the US Trials positive in '88 wasn't reported till '03. How does that happen?
I think they said what CL tested + for was no longer on the banned list. What's the director's story. I didn't recognize the name of the dude who did "Broke" but when I read on here it was the Cocaine Cowboys guy, it made sense. What was the angle for the director of this one?
Posted on 10/9/12 at 11:29 pm to tigerpimpbot
was it just me but were all these track athletes very feminine? are any of them openly gay?
Posted on 10/9/12 at 11:31 pm to Lester Earl
Just Lewis and Smith seemed gay to me. Plus that track coach who might have been a post-op tranny.
This post was edited on 10/9/12 at 11:32 pm
Posted on 10/9/12 at 11:32 pm to tigerpimpbot
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I think they said what CL tested + for was no longer on the banned list.
They said what he was positive for would not be considered a positive now.
ETA: But this was never reported till '03. Supa was right on his answer to this. $$$$$$$$$$$$$$
This post was edited on 10/9/12 at 11:35 pm
Posted on 10/9/12 at 11:33 pm to Lester Earl
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was it just me but were all these track athletes very feminine? are any of them openly gay?
Lots of roids may have affected their voice.....I don't know. I believe a few are openly gay.
Posted on 10/9/12 at 11:42 pm to Wild Thang
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They said what he was positive for would not be considered a positive now.
Cool. I missed the specifics on that.
Weird how the East German ladies grew mustaches like men from the drugs, but the western hemisphere dudes got all effeminate from the drugs.
Posted on 10/9/12 at 11:45 pm to tigerpimpbot
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but the western hemisphere dudes got all effeminate from the drugs.
I think they had to take estrogen as part of the poo poo plater. This would explain it.
Posted on 10/10/12 at 7:58 am to Wild Thang
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What I found crazy was that the US Trials positive in '88 wasn't reported till '03. How does that happen?
For the same reason that the UCI made Lance Armstrong's positive at the Tour of Switzerland go away. They don't want to take down their moneymaker
Posted on 10/10/12 at 8:07 am to Lester Earl
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was it just me but were all these track athletes very feminine? are any of them openly gay?
Oh I thought so too. It was weird hearing that many "legends" talk like that. Except for Lewis, I'd never heard any of them really talk.
Posted on 10/10/12 at 9:45 am to Tiger Ryno
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my neighbor ran in the calgary olympics I believe in the 800 that year and he and his wife stayed in teh olympic village hotel in Calgary and they said the scene that night in the hotel when the buzz went around that johnson tested positive was raucous to say the least. he has some very cool pics
Ran the 800 what? Snow race? Bobsled push? 1988 Calgary olympics were the Winter Olympics, and were held before the '88 Seoul Summer games. Either Johnson tested positive for the race in February of '88, or you're friend has his story mixed up
Posted on 10/10/12 at 10:11 am to Lester Earl
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was it just me but were all these track athletes very feminine? are any of them openly gay?
that was my main thought after...it seems that sprinters in the 80s were flaming gay
Posted on 10/10/12 at 11:07 am to SlowFlowPro
this was a fantastic episode. some thoughts from memory
* Everyone knew the majority of these guys were doing something at the time
* Johnson was portrayed at the time as a steroid raging evil kill everyone monster....interesting that was not the case at all
* No one has ever liked Carl Lewis- Ever
really great episode, I was glued to the set
* Everyone knew the majority of these guys were doing something at the time
* Johnson was portrayed at the time as a steroid raging evil kill everyone monster....interesting that was not the case at all
* No one has ever liked Carl Lewis- Ever
really great episode, I was glued to the set
Posted on 10/10/12 at 1:14 pm to stapuffmarshy
Yeah, it really was a good one. And then there was the climactic part towards the end - I had to rewind it as I was thinking, "Whoa whoa whoa, so there really could have been consipracy/sabotage!?"
Posted on 10/10/12 at 2:01 pm to stapuffmarshy
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No one has ever liked Carl Lewis- Ever
Lulz at the announcers at the time fawning all over Carl Lewis for how classy he was for congratulating Ben Johnson after one of those pre-'88 races, when he was really trolling and called him a false starting mother fricker.
This post was edited on 10/10/12 at 2:02 pm
Posted on 10/10/12 at 2:22 pm to tigerpimpbot
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I think they said what CL tested + for was no longer on the banned list.
Lewis tested positive three times before the 1988 Olympics for pseudoephedrine, ephedrine, and phenylpropanolamine.
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