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BEN JOHNSON NA OLIMPIADZIE W SEULU W 1988 ROKU
Jamaican-born Canadian Ben Johnson practices at the Seoul Olympic Stadium 15 March 1988. Six month later, 24September, at the same place, Johnson win the Olympic 100m final in a world record 9.79 seconds. Johnson, nicknamed as "Human Bullet" for having become the fastest man in 1987 Rome's World Championships, after he had clocked a world record time of 9. 84 sec. He was banned for two years in Seoul after testing positive for the steroid stanolozol shortly after winning the 100m. Johnson made a comeback in 1992 at the Barcelona Olympics, only to test positive again a year later, this time for testosterone, incurring a life-time ban. In July 1997 the disgraced sprinter told the Argentinian newspaper La Nacion: "I know I am the fastest man in the world and no-one can deny it. My only mistake was to run too fast. Drugs cannot make you break a world record, they only improve you by 25 percent."