Sadly not everything in life’s long forgotten field of dreams , that has apparently been accounted for, counts ,well not exactly, nor can everything that purports to count be counted upon.

The I.O. C . , is this an acronym for ignorance , oblivion , corruption ? Will the wise monkeys of the 2012 International Olympic committee continue to ape their ancestors and allow the type of willful blindness and corruption witnessed on a record breaking scale during the 1988 Seoul Olympics ?

The cock crowed thrice three days later in the aftermath of the corruptest,dirtiest and most shameful race in Olympic history . Later while the dust began to settle on the track and as the sun slowly set in all it’s choreographed magnificence ,it left tarnished irreparably the reputation of Canada’s Ben Johnson ,leaving forever a blemish on his soon to be faded and jaded career.

Johnson to his own and the Athletic worlds utter shock and amazement somehow or other managed to fail a mandatory drugs test, for an anabolic steroid called stanazol.In a new book recently published by Richard Moore , which is aptly named the dirtiest race in history ,In his book Moore points out that someone from the Lewis camp may have managed to tamper with and spike Johnson’s sample. As it turns out , it would appear, Johnson never used stanzol as it made him ,”feel tight ” ,wrote Charlie Francis, Johnson’s coach, in his book Speed Trap. Johnson he claims preferred the anabolic steroid furazabol. It has been widely documented and admitted to under oath in a court of law by Johnson , that he did indeed use a barrage of banned substances for many years, but not he has always maintained the stanazol which the I .O.C . claim to have found in his post final mandatory urine sample back in 88 .

None the less Johnson was stripped of his gold medal and sent home in disgrace while Carl Lewis was awarded the Gold medal and the I.O.C could hold it’s head up high ,proclaiming to have protected the honor and integrity of the Olympic spirit. In hind sight we now know that five of the Athletes in this infamous 100m Olympic final at some point in their careers tested positive for banned substances .
Included in this motly crew of the world’s fastest cheetahs were , Carl Lewis , Linford Christie , Dennis Mitchell , Desai williams and of course Ben Johnson.

The golden boy Carl Lewis of the USA failed a drugs test not once , no not twice but thrice , in the lead up to the Olympic games in Seoul 1988. None the less the American Olympic Committee saw fit to ignore this fact and allow him represent the USA in the 88 Olympics .

Can you Adam and Eve it ? , having it would appear possibly partaken of the forbidden fruit, Lewis is to this day Ironically and one might add hypocritically and even perhaps sanctimoniously , given that his own career and reputation , along with his many Olympic gold medals were indeed later shown to be possibly a tad maybe tainted ,along with those three failed samples which were conveniently covered up at the time out of or by I.O.C (depending on your definition of the acronym) for patently political reasons, is still however very out spoken about illegal, performance enhancing drugs in athletics .

However if you would like to listen to, and hang on every word of one of the ones that possibly got away commentate and preach? , then you can catch him , at it, on the BBC ‘s commentary of the London 2012 Olympics, all the while bearing in mind that, ” he who seeks equity ,must do equity, and of course not forgetting the one about, ” he who is without sin ……

Yours faithfully

Denis Doyle