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Professional sports are America’s way of exhibiting true athleticism and skill and athletes prove their ability through agility test, strength test, and endurance test. Every athelete wants to be faster, stronger, more powerful than the next. When athletes feel as though they cannot reach their full potential,regardless of their intense workout program and nutrition program, they tend to search for supplements or steroids for assistance. Professional athletes of all sports have been using steroids dating all the way back to the first Olympic Games. Even though deemed as unethical and illegal in all sports, millions of dollars and world records can ride on being the "world best" and winning any competition. With the increase in steriods in sports, many atheltes are gaining an unfair advantage over their competition and have no longer become "naturally gifted". The use of these steroids often lead to a disqualification in a sports event because these steroids are chemicals that act like horomones. A specific type of steroid was tested positive in 1988 Seoul Olympic Games and that steroid was called anabolic steroids; anabolic steroids are used by abusers to build muscle mass or prolong intense training effects. Ben Johnson,Carl Lewis,Linford Christie,Dennis Mitchell,Calvin Smith,Raymond Stewart, and Desai Williams were the men running the 100-meter men 's final at the 1988 Seoul Games ,the fastest sprint in Olympic history. …show more content…
The 1988 Seoul Olympics was the most conterversiol Olympic event that brough together Carl Lewis and Ben Johnson. Carl Lewis and Ben Johnson were fierce competitiors and in the documentary 30 on 30: *9.79, their dislike for eachohter is apparent.
Lewis was known as a talented track and field athlete who quickly became an American hero at the Los Angeles Olympics. Johnson was his rival, considered an underdog due to his recovery from a pulled hamstring and was even seen as "least talented" in his track club. Carl Lewis got his start as a track and field athlete from his parents. His mother was a talented track and field athlete andh is father was an elite track and field coach. At age 13, Lewis began competing in the long jump, for his hometown High School track team. He achieved the ranking of fourth on the all-time World Junior list of long jumpers.Due to an injury from his track and field events, he stopped doing long jump and started training for sprinting events. Since then, Lewis has won numerous track and field events. Lewis ,being undefeated and maintaining his title of being the one to beat, attracted Ben Johnson to challenge him. Ben Johnson was born and raised in Jamaica during a dreaduful time of disease in the country. When Johnson was fourteen years old he moved to Canada and was bullied due to being the only black child at his school. In order for Johnson to prove himself, he would race people at school. While in Canada, Ben Johnson met coach Charlie Francis and joined a track and field club where he was then seen as the "least talented track and field athelte". According to the documentary, it seemed as though Johnson was not naturally athletic or talented in the sport of track and field but he kept trying; Johnson slowly gained recognition in sporting events, by coming in second or third place. At the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, he reached the 100 m final; after false starting, he won the bronze medal behind Carl Lewis. In 1985, after eight consecutive losses, Johnson finally beat Carl Lewis. Other success against Lewis included the 1986 Goodwill Games..During this time, Johnson lead the Canadian team to several gold medals, unexpectedly. Johnson was soon to be a hot commodity and deemed "unstoppable", stealing Carl Lewis ' ahtletic limelight. By the time of the 1987 World Championships, Johnson had won his four previous races with Lewis and had established himself as the best 100 m sprinter. At Rome, Johnson gained instant world fame and confirmed this status when he beat Lewis for the title, setting a new world record . In the documentary, Carl Lewis was bitter about his loses against Ben Johnson and starts to blame Johnson for