Carl Lewis.

On the surface, it is 9 Gold Superman, but to be honest, he and Bolt are incomparable.

Before 2020, it was also 9 gold, Bolt was so clean that his pores turned white, and he was.

As a famous American athlete, Lewis once claimed to be an "anti-doping fighter", but the reality is so magical. Lewis himself, an "anti-doping fighter", is not that innocent.

Lewis achieved his "clean" image at the 1988 Seoul Olympics. At that time, Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson ran a 100-meter "new record" of 9.79 seconds, and was found to have taken stimulant steroids, and the gold medal was cancelled. The gold medal was ranked second with a time of 9.92 seconds. This second place, yes, is our "anti-doping fighter" Carl Lewis.

In the eyes of the public, just because of Johnson, he became the cleanest athlete on the field.

Since then, Lewis has participated in four consecutive Olympic Games, won 9 Olympic gold medals, becoming a legend in the world sports world, and was even considered the greatest Olympic athlete at one time. Former International Olympic Committee President Samaranchi once praised: "Not only is he ranked first in the world field, but he often helps us fight against doping."

Since then, Carl Lewis has actively participated in the "anti-doping" publicity campaign, calling for strict drug inspection systems and claiming that the track and field stadium has reached the point of "unprecedented dirty".

But by 2003, this "legend" came to an end.

Remember this time, on April 18, 2003, a black doctor named Vad Exxon exposed a heavy document, detailing the US Olympic Committee's behavior of sheltering and condoing domestic athletes to take banned drugs to improve their performance.

Who is Vad Exxon? Someone may want to ask this question.

After the Exxon's file is opened, it can be seen that he has served as the director of the Drug Administration Committee of the United States Olympic Committee for a long time.

Then this matter is very interesting.

Vad Exxon found that from 1988 to 2000, there were more than 100 American athletes taking medication, but they were not punished. Documents show that Lewis tested positive for three drug tests before the 1988 Olympics. But Lewis argued that he took the medication without knowing it. In the end, the US Olympic Committee allowed him to go to Seoul to participate.

Yes.

Is it a very familiar script?

Another claim is that "I took the medicine without knowing it."

Three consecutive drug tests were all, obviously there was a problem.

And if you really want to say it, 99% of athletes who take banned drugs are basically confirmed to be innocent.

In order to increase credibility, Exxon even presented a letter written by the former Secretary-General of the US Olympic Committee to Lewis and others, and the letter said: "Stimulants will improve sports performance and give you an advantage in the competition."

This means that the United States itself is also aware of the information, not without any knowledge.

What is funny is that the most exciting one is that Ben Johnson Johnson, who was deprived of the gold medal after Lewis successfully appealed and was deprived of the gold medal after he learned about the situation, asking Lewis to return the gold medal he won at the 1988 Olympics to the International Olympics, otherwise he would sue all the American athletes participating at that time.

Johnson's lawyer said that the US Olympic Committee had long known about the situation of these American athletes, but sheltered and condoned them, and all US Olympic Committee officials should be punished by law.

Johnson's anger is completely understandable. If you think so, I have a problem with the medication and I admit it.

But... why do you use it too? Can you still win gold medals and become the 9 gold kings?

Then it will naturally be unbalanced.

Lewis initially did not admit this. As for Johnson's request, Lewis thought it was very ridiculous.

However, neither the US Olympic Committee nor Lewis himself could provide strong evidence to prove that the report was problematic. Soon, the US Olympic Committee handed over the drug test to an independent agency. Finally, under pressure from all walks of life, Lewis publicly stated that the report was true, that is, at the 1988 Seoul Olympics, he took stimulants, and the US Olympic Committee was informed and just concealed and did not report it.

Thinking about it now, no wonder Lewis was so sure that Ben Johnson took medicine after the Olympic final.

Why?

A typical Australian swimming team practice.

I used it too, I can't beat you!

Then you are useless, you have a ghost!

I don't believe it!!!

Lewis's answer was also funny. Faced with Johnson's questioning, he replied:

"Are he really going to sue hundreds of people in court?!"

"I really don't understand why people have to argue about what happened more than ten years ago. Which athlete hasn't cheated? It's just that the degree is different. What's there to say?!"

The whole world is confused.

Didn’t you say you were the cleanest before?

Didn’t you tell sprinters all over the world that shouldn’t use medicine, and it would be shameful to use it?

Why does this answer become if it comes to you? It becomes “Which athlete has never done any bad things”???

Let’s think about the gold medal behind him, and his persuasion to others not to use medicine, isn’t that just him the only one who used it? Isn’t that invincible?

The earliest stimulant should be the "Little Eagle Chinese" who launched the Opium War.

In the 19th century, a kind of ultra-long endurance running was always popular in the Kitty Eagle Kingdom. In 1807, Abraham Wood, a contestant in the endurance running, openly declared that only by using opium can we stay awake and run continuously within 24 hours.

In 1878, do you know how much the British Enduro Championship was? It was 520 miles (equivalent to 837 kilometers)! The champion ran for 138 hours in a row!

You think about it with your brain, is it possible?

According to a record of "Black History of Stimulants" (2008 No. 34), in 1904, at the marathon of the third Olympic Games held in St. Louis, USA, British American Thomas Hicks followed behind him during the competition, Charles Lucas, a coach with a syringe. Whenever Hicks couldn't run, Lucas would inject him with a "Strychnine" at the right time, plus a cup of whiskey. "Strychnine" is also called marcinine, which is a central nervous system stimulant.

It was not just a track and field competition. In 1930, the famous Tour de France entries clearly stated that the organizer was not responsible for the "drug" expenses of each team - meaning that the drugs were legal, but you only had to pay for it at your own expense.

If this trend continues, the modern Olympic Games of mankind may actually evolve into the "Doping Achievements Expo" that is held every four years. However, things have changed because... human life has happened.

At the 1960 Olympic Games, Danish cyclist Jensen died suddenly during the competition. The autopsy proved that he took amphetamine, alcohol and another drug that dilates blood vessels. Seven years later, former Olympic bronze medalist, cyclist Simpson, died suddenly on the Tour de France, and there was still unfinished amphetamine in his pocket when he died. People suddenly recalled that the marathon champion Hicks, who ran and got injections, never participated in a large-scale competition after that Olympic Games...

With the increasing number of stimulant scandals, humans have realized the harm of stimulant.

At the 1968 Mexican Olympics, the first anti-doping test in human history appeared.

Yes, it was not until here that the test for stimulant was started in 1968.

At that time, Swedish modern pentathlon player Liyanwall became the first person to violate doping in Olympic history.

The types of stimulants can be roughly divided into several types:

The first category can be summarized as "not tired", but in fact it is central nervous system stimulants, such as caffeine, cocaine, ephedrine, and the aforementioned opium tincture taken for endurance runs also belong to this category. This type of stimulants is the first to be tested and the most backward one.

The second category can be summarized as "special sturdy", which is steroids. The most famous one is testosterone. After taking this category, the muscle strength increases significantly, the bones become thicker, and the female characteristics gradually disappear. In China, it is commonly known as "Dalifu". You can recall that the "Ma Jiajun" who claimed to have been taking "Chinese Turtle Sperm" back then was a typical example in China.

Note that due to technical level, steroid drugs were difficult to detect before the 2000 Sydney Olympics.

The third category is more advanced, called "EPO". It is a erythropoietin, which was originally used to treat anemia. After taking it, athletes' oxygen supply capacity increases, endurance and other abilities improve. This type of stimulant has not been detected for a long time in history.

The fourth category is various miscellaneous categories. For example, in the 2008 BJ Olympics, North Korean male shooting player Kim Jong-soo won the bronze medal in the men's 10-meter air pistol and the silver medal in the 50-meter pistol, but was deprived of the medal after the game because he was found to have taken "stimulant" - strictly speaking, it is actually the antonym of "stimulant": a sedative called "resatisfaction".

The fifth category is the latest high-tech, that is, "future stimulants", which are stimulants that cannot be detected by current means.

Although it cannot be tested now, it must have been done, because the development of drugs will always be faster than the examination.

As for the future, maybe there is more.

After all, there are currently up to four or five categories.

Not just the track and field industry, in the 1954 Men's World Cup final, Hungary, which was called the "Dream Team" at the time, scored two goals in West Germany in the first half 8 minutes. However, West Germany, which was behind 0-2 in the first half, was completely different in the second half, and eventually reversed and defeated Hungary 3-2 and won the world championship. This game was called the "Bern Miracle".

However, in 2004, German media disclosed that during the 1954 World Cup final halftime, every member of the West German team was injected with a central nervous system excitation drug to increase physical strength and explosive power. What is even more touching is that in 2008, the Science Bureau of the Ministry of the Interior and the German Olympic Committee jointly commissioned Humboldt University in Berlin to investigate the history of banned drugs in Germany. The results showed that in order to pursue results, the former Federal Germany systematically organized athletes to take various banned drugs for more than 30 years.

"The scientific and technological strength of a country determines the performance of athletes in the Olympic stadium."

If there is positive energy at the Olympics, it seems that there are always some other meanings now.

Before the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, Bob Goldman, president of the Canadian Anti-Pharm Abuse Organization and steroid expert, once asked this question:

"If I had a magical drug that would make you invincible in all competitions, including the Olympics, within five years. But please be aware! If you take this drug, you will die in five years. Would you like to take it?"

He threw this question to 198 outstanding athletes from all over the world, and what was the result?

Guess.

turn out……

103 athletes replied: I am willing to eat!

What can be found is stimulants, but what cannot be found is high technology. This is the dark history hidden behind the Olympics.

And what is the most outrageous thing?

It's Carl Lewis, the great athlete, the 9 King of Gold, he actually...

Don't eat meat!

Many people said that this was Superman, but in fact, medicine has told us that without supplementing various vitamins and supplements, especially in the 1980s and 1990s, according to current scientific sports medicine, no one can imagine that athletes can become an outstanding athlete without eating meat. But Carl Lewis did not have to rely on meat and successfully accomplished everything that ordinary people could not imagine.

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content later! The New York Times reported that in the 1980s and 1990s, the use of stimulants in the United States was also very common: drug test results disappeared, athletes who took stimulants won gold and silver in track and field and swimming events. The leaders of the US Olympic Organizing Committee, corporate sponsors and some media turned a blind eye to the doping problem or turned a deaf ear to it.

And they also used their superpower capabilities to be crazy double standards.

Do you know that the so-called sports power had 653 athletes in 2015, because of the disease, were allowed to “legally use stimulants”.

The United States' largest sports magazine, Sports Art, revealed in detail the truth that the American sports community concealed the use of stimulants by American athletes. From 1988 to 2000, there were more than 100 cases of American athletes taking medication, but only a few athletes were banned.

Maybe some people say that "permitting legal use" is within the rules. You are so good, let's see how many people in our country are qualified?

Guess.

In 2015, the US list was 653 athletes. Our flower planter, and the answer was - In 2015, none of the flower planters were approved for "legal use of stimulants".

Yes.

There is no one.
To be continued...