Ben Johnson the greatest ever?? yes indeed.

[Mr. Gottabejuiced]

Badgerman,

I can tell you the first thing you want to do is get your bodyfat under 4%. If you don't have that you are never going to run world class sprints. Then you need to look into GH, Insulin , IGF-1 and some steroids we don't even know about. Wish I could help you more on that, but getting extremely lean is sooooo important. It sounds a little obvious, but it can't be understated.

The reason I say GH, steroids, ect. is because that is what Charlie Francis said was going on in the US sprint program as far back as 1984!

I would be surprised if he was the guy who sent in the Thg needle...

[1morerep]

everyone seems to forget that when ben ran that gold medal race -before he reached the tape he looked over to see carl lewis and had his hand in the air, if ben ran full out whithout doing that his time would have been even faster. also i've trained a couple of times at york u and i've seen ben train their a few times, it is hard for me right now to put into words of actually witnessing a human body moving that fast, the man is still unbelievable.

[TestTubeBaby]

please, ben raised his arm 5m to go, at MOST...enough of the charlie francis/ben johnson phenomena 9.79 race! mo in the 01 world champs ran 9.82 after pulling his quad w/ 30 meters to go! he started grimacing at 60m..and im pretty sure it was run into a headwind..

[TestTubeBaby]

oh yea mrgottabejuiced, trevor graham, the coach who trained marion jones and tim montgomery, turned in the THG syringe.

[Shaka]

Honestly, I think Ben's 9.79 would've been no faster than 9.76 had he not slowed down at the end. If you look at his last 10m split in Seoul he ran a .90. A year earlier at the WC, he ran the last 10m during his 9.83 world record in .87. With his fastest split being .83. There is no evidence that shows he could run the final 10m in anything faster than his top speed!