Tags: Olympic Event, Olympics.
The Men’s 100 metres at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul South Korea – called by one newspaper the dirtiest race in history – ended in controversy after Canada’s Ben Johnson defeated defending champion Carl Lewis from the United States with a world record time of 9.79s topping his own record of 9.83s that he set at the Track & Field World Championships in Rome in 1987. Two days later Johnson was stripped of his gold medal by the IOC when his post-race drug test indicated steroid use.
