Carl Lewis.
On the surface, he is a nine-gold superman, but to be honest, there is no comparison between him and Bolt.
Before 2020, Bolt also had 9 gold medals. Bolt was so clean that his pores were white, but he.
As a famous American athlete, Lewis was once known as the "anti-doping fighter", but the reality is so magical. Lewis himself, the "anti-doping fighter", is not so innocent.
Lewis achieved his "clean" image at the 1988 Seoul Olympics. At that time, after Canadian sprint star Ben Johnson ran a "new record" of 100 meters in 9.79 seconds, his result was canceled because he was found to have taken stimulant steroids. The gold medal fell to the third-placed athlete with a time of 9.92 seconds. Second hand. This second place, yes, is our "anti-doping fighter" Carl Lewis.
In the eyes of the public, because of Johnson's incident, he has become the cleanest athlete on the field.
Since then, Lewis has participated in four consecutive Olympic Games and won 9 Olympic gold medals. He has become a legend in the world of sports and was even considered the greatest Olympian for a time. Former International Olympic Committee President Samaranch once praised: "He is not only ranked first in the world's track and field, but also often helps us in the fight against doping."
Since then, Carl Lewis has become actively involved in anti-doping campaigns, calling for stricter drug testing and claiming that the track and field has reached an "unprecedented level of filth."
But by 2003, this "legend" came to an end.
Remember this time, on April 18, 2003, a black doctor named Wade Exxon exposed a blockbuster document, which revealed in detail that the U.S. Olympic Committee was shielding and condoning the use of banned drugs by domestic athletes. Performance-enhancing behaviors.
Who is Vader Exxon? Someone may want to ask this question.
When Exxon's file is opened, it can be seen that he has long served as the director of the Drug Management Committee of the U.S. Olympic Committee.
Then this matter is very interesting.
Wade Exon found that from 1988 to 2000, there were more than 100 cases of American athletes taking drugs, but they were not punished in any way. Documents show Lewis tested positive three times before the 1988 Olympics. But Lewis argued that he took the drug without knowing it. Finally, the U.S. Olympic Committee allowed him to compete in Seoul.
Yes.
Is it a very familiar script?
Another person claimed that "he took the medicine without knowing it."
Three consecutive drug tests showed that there was obviously something wrong.
And if we really want to say it, it is basically 99% true that athletes taking banned drugs are not innocent.
In order to increase credibility, Exxon even produced a letter written by the former Secretary-General of the U.S. Olympic Committee to Lewis and others, which said: "Doping will improve athletic performance and give you an advantage in competition. "
This means that the United States is also aware of the situation and is not completely unaware of it.
What's funny is that the most excited one is Ben Johnson, who successfully appealed against Lewis and was deprived of the gold medal. Johnson immediately issued a statement after learning of the situation, demanding that Lewis return the gold medal he won in the 1988 Olympics to the International Olympics, otherwise he would sue all American athletes who participated at the time.
Johnson's lawyer said that the U.S. Olympic Committee had known about the situation of these American athletes for a long time, but it had shielded and condoned them. U.S. Olympic Committee officials should be punished by law.
Johnson's anger is completely understandable. If you think about it this way, there is something wrong with my medication, and I admit it.
But...why do you still get gold medals and become 9 gold kings even if you use them?
That would naturally be unbalanced.
Lewis initially refused to acknowledge this. As for Johnson's request, Lewis thinks it is ridiculous.
However, neither the U.S. Olympic Committee nor Lewis himself could provide strong evidence to prove that this report was problematic. Soon, the U.S. Olympic Committee also handed over drug testing work to an independent agency. Finally, under pressure from all walks of life, Lewis publicly stated his position and admitted that the report was true. In other words, at the 1988 Seoul Olympics, he took doping, and the U.S. Olympic Committee knew about it but concealed it. Report.
Thinking about it now, it's no wonder that Lewis was so sure that Ben Johnson had taken drugs after the Olympic finals.
why?
Typical Australian swimming team approach.
I even used it, and I still can’t beat you!
Then you are useless, you are a ghost!
I do not believe! ! !
And Lewis's answer was also funny. When faced with Johnson's question, he replied:
"Is he really planning to take hundreds of people to court?!"
"I really don't understand why people are arguing about things that happened more than ten years ago. Which athlete has never cheated? It's just different degrees. What's there to say?!"
? ? ?
The whole world is bewildered.
Didn’t Nima say you were the cleanest before?
Don't you mean to tell the world that sprinters should not use drugs and that it would be shameful to do so?
How come you have this answer? It becomes "Which athlete hasn't cheated?" ? ?
Think about it again, with the gold medal behind him and the fact that he persuaded others not to take medicine, doesn't it mean that he may be the only one who takes it? Wouldn’t that be invincible?
The earliest stimulants should be the "Little Eagle Countrymen" who launched the Opium War.
In the 19th century, a kind of ultra-long endurance running was popular in Kitty Eagle Country. In 1807, endurance runner Abraham Wood publicly declared that only by using laudanum could anyone stay awake and run for 24 hours.
Do you know what the winning result was in the British Endurance Race in 1878? That’s 520 miles (equivalent to 837 kilometers)! The champion ran for 138 hours continuously!
Think about it with your brain, is it possible?
According to the record in an article "The Black History of Doping" (Issue 34, 2008) of "Oriental Outlook Weekly", in 1904, during the marathon race of the Third Olympic Games in St. Louis, the United States, the American British Thomas Hicks During the game, he was followed by a coach, Charles Lucas, who was holding a syringe. Whenever Hicks couldn't run anymore, Lucas would give him an injection of "Strychnine" and a glass of whiskey at the right time. "Strychnine", also called strychnine, is a central nervous system stimulant.
It’s not just track and field. In 1930, the entry manual for the famous Tour de France clearly stated that the organizer was not responsible for the "drug" expenses of each team - meaning that the drugs were legal, but you just had to pay for them at your own expense.
If this trend continues, humanity's modern Olympic Games may actually evolve into a "doping results expo" held every four years. However, things took a turn because of... a human life.
At the 1960 Rome Olympics, Danish cyclist Jensen died suddenly during the competition. An autopsy proved that he had taken amphetamines, alcohol and another drug that dilates blood vessels. Seven years later, Simpson, a former Olympic bronze medalist and cyclist, died suddenly during the Tour de France with uneaten amphetamine in his pocket when he died. People suddenly recalled that Hicks, the marathon champion who took injections while running, never participated in a major competition after the Olympics...
With the increasing number of doping scandals, humans have become aware of the dangers of doping.
At the 1968 Mexico Olympics, the first anti-doping testing in human history occurred.
Yes, it was not until here, in 1968, that doping testing began.
At that Mexico Olympics, Swedish modern pentathlete Lijen Wall became the first person in Olympic history to be banned for doping.
The types of stimulants can generally be divided into the following categories:
The first category can be summarized as "not tiring", which are actually central nervous system stimulants, such as caffeine, cocaine, and ephedrine. The laudanum taken for endurance running mentioned earlier also belongs to this category. This type of stimulant is the first to be detected, and it is also the most backward.
The second category can be summarized as "unique strength", which is steroids. One of the more famous is testosterone. After eating this kind of food, the muscle strength increases significantly, the bones become thicker, and the female characteristics gradually disappear. In China, it is commonly known as "Dianabol". You can recall that the "Ma Jiajun" who claimed to have been taking "Chinese Turtle Essence" back then was a typical example in China.
Note that steroids were difficult to detect before the 2000 Sydney Olympics due to technical limitations.
The third category is more advanced and is called "EPO". It is an erythropoietin originally used to treat anemia. Athletes' oxygen supply capacity increases after eating it. Improved endurance and other abilities. Such stimulants have historically been undetectable for a long time.
The fourth category is miscellaneous categories. For example, at the 2008 BJ Olympics, North Korean male shooter Kim Jong-soo won the bronze medal in the men's 10-meter air pistol and the silver medal in the 50-meter pistol. However, he was stripped of his medals after the game because he was found to have taken "doping" - strictly speaking. , is actually the antonym of "stimulant": a tranquilizer called "propranolol".
The fifth category is the latest high technology, that is, "future stimulants", which are stimulants that cannot be detected by current means.
Although it cannot be detected now, it must already be there, because the development of drugs is always faster than detection.
As for the future, there may be more.
After all, there are currently as many as four or five categories.
Not only in the track and field world, in the 1954 Men's World Cup final, the Hungarian team, which was called the "Dream Team" at the time, scored two goals against the West German team in the first 8 minutes of the first half. However, the West German team, which was trailing 2-0 in the first half, was a completely different team in the second half, and finally came back to defeat the Hungarian team 3-2 and win the world championship. This game is known as the "Miracle of Bern".
However, in 2004, German media revealed that during halftime of the 1954 World Cup final, every member of the West German team was injected with a central nervous system stimulant drug to increase physical strength and explosive power. What is even more shocking is that in 2008, the Science Bureau of the German Ministry of the Interior and the German Olympic Committee commissioned the Humboldt University of Berlin to investigate the history of drug prohibition in Germany. The results showed that in order to pursue performance, the former Federal Republic of Germany systematically organized athletes to take various banned drugs. medicine for more than 30 years.
"The technological strength of a country determines the performance of its athletes in the Olympics."
The positive energy of the Olympic Games always seems to have some other meaning now.
Before the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, Bob Goldman, chairman of the Canadian Anti-Drug Abuse Organization and steroid expert, once asked this question:
"If I had a magic drug, it would make you invincible in all competitions, including the Olympics, within five years. But please be careful! If you take this drug, you will die in five years. , are you willing to eat?"
He threw this question to 198 outstanding athletes from all over the world, and what was the result?
Guess it.
turn out……
103 athletes answered: I am willing to eat it!
What can be found is doping, but what cannot be found is high technology. This is the dark history hidden behind the Olympic Games.
And what's the most outrageous thing?
It's Carl Lewis. This great athlete, the 9-gold king, he actually...
vegetarian!
At that time, many people said that he was a superman, but now medicine has told us that without supplementing various vitamins and supplements, especially in the 1980s and 1990s, according to the current scientific sports medicine, anyone can It is impossible to imagine that an athlete can become an outstanding athlete without eating meat. But Carl Lewis did not need to rely on meat and successfully accomplished everything that ordinary people could not imagine.
The New York Times reported that in the 1980s and 1990s, doping was also very common in the United States in Olympic sports: drug test results disappeared, and athletes who had taken doping won gold medals in track and field and swimming events. Silver, leaders of the U.S. Olympic Organizing Committee, corporate sponsors and some media have turned a blind eye or turned a deaf ear to the doping issue.
And they also use their superpower capabilities to achieve crazy double standards.
Did you know that in the so-called major sports country, 653 athletes were allowed to "legally use doping" because of illness in 2015?
The United States' own largest sports magazine "Sports Illustrated" revealed in detail the truth about the American sports industry's cover-up of doping by American athletes. Between 1988 and 2000, there were more than 100 cases of drug use by American athletes, but only a handful of athletes were suspended.
Some people may say that "allowing legal use" is within the rules. You are so good, but look at how many people in our country are qualified?
Guess it.
In 2015, there were 653 athletes in the list of the United States. As for us flower growers, the answer is--in 2015, not a single athlete in the flower growers was approved for "legal use of doping."
Yes.
There is none.
If you are still blind with 653 times the data, there is nothing you can do.
No one can wake up someone who is pretending to be asleep.
At this time, you can look back at Lewis's interview with the Times: "I'm afraid there is a problem with Bolt's results. Because the level of doping testing in Jamaica is very problematic. As for us, I must say that as an American, I I am very proud because we have the most advanced drug testing system and the most severe penalty rules."
Su Shen just wanted to say:? ? ?
The ability to tell lies with open eyes is already in the Mahayana stage, right?
Have you forgotten that you are a doping user yourself?
Perhaps, his thoughts back then have come back again.
I feel like I can’t even use it. If you’re faster than me, you definitely can’t get it clean.
pity.
This time he fought against a few people.
It really is.
Extremely clean.
This is embarrassing.
"How to do it? Xiaotian?" Zhao Haohuan asked.
"What are you waiting for?" Su Shen said with a faint smile, without getting angry, and said steadily: "Let's go to the press conference."
"As an innocent person, how can I be pointed in the face by someone who is not innocent?"
Su Shen put on his clothes, picked up his cell phone, answered the call, and said, "I understand, Director Yuan, let's hold a press conference."
"Our history of being randomly bullied. It's a thing of the past."
"Whoever slanders us in the future will have to pay the price."
PS: This is the dark side of the Olympic Games. I hope everyone can understand it and understand how speechless the so-called great American athletes are. Maybe he used it too much, and he felt that he couldn't run fast without taking medicine. But this time he didn't meet Johnson, but Bolt. The thief shouted, "Catch the thief." Lao Mi's wave has reached its peak.
