Forgot to mention the passes he got from our olympic committee for also failing drug test ! Multiple times, carl lewis was dirty too

But HE was DIRTY too!!! Dude is as morally bankrupt as they come! You can hear it in his words defending the use of drugs and saying it was good for the sport because it generated interest. So much HYPOCRISY!!

Carl was a cheater as well. Can’t stand these liars

As one of the most successful drug cheats in history ,he has the gall to speak about Ben.

In 2003, Wade Exum, the United States Olympic Committee's director of drug control administration from 1991 to 2000, gave copies of documents to Sports Illustrated that revealed that some 100 American athletes had failed drug tests from 1988 to 2000, arguing that they should have been prevented from competing in the Olympics but were nevertheless cleared to compete.

Carl Lewis failed three drug tests during the Olympic trials, the same year. He shouldn't have even been in that race with Johnson. Did Dan Patrick bring that up in the interview? I hope so, if not he is gutless.

Carl was also doped. Crazy how he can talk like he was a clean athlete. Why was this not pointed out during the interview? Dan you were pretty soft with him and fed the lie and his ego. So much for good reporting.

In a dictionary, right behind the word hypocrite should be Carl Lewis' picture.

In Carl Lewis' mind he's the only cleanest sprinter to have ever have ran.

They should give Ben back his win. Carl was on steroids also. Ben just had the best lol

dirty Carl calling the kettle black....ben johnsen was amazing

Are you kidding me? Carl Lewis on the moral high ground? Lmao.

My track and field coach was good friends with Charlie Francis. My coach said that there were at least 7 runners in that final on drugs.

Wow. I lost serious respect for Dan Patrick here. Always been one of my favourites but he's seriously lacking in integrity to push the narrative that only Ben was dirty. The guy you're interviewing is too, Dan! I expect this from Carl, but I'm disappointed to say the least in how Patrick has chosen to come at this.

I remember the look on carl Lewis's face during the race, when he looked at Johnson. It was like what the ..! Johnson was running like a mad man! It was disingenuous for him to speak about Johnson's drug use and not mention his own ban for stimulants.

Carl Lewis was a hypercrite he did the same thing so he no better then Ben Johnson was his problem is he is a sorry loser and disrespected new jersey because that's where he is from not Texas

Everyone was doping. Ben won. Stop pretending to be "Mr. Clean" Carl.

Carl Lewis was dirty too. Only Ben Johnson got vilified.

Carl is damn dishonest: ...how can he think Ben is dirty while being himself?

If its a American than they can do no wrong. That hold field was probably dirty. They were just pissed cause carl got blown away. Carl failed many a test.

The title says the “truth”? He’s still lying about this. It’s truly unbelievable. I remember how arrogant he was at the Olympics watching as a kid. Come clean Carl. 🤡

Carl Lewis is a delusional fraud. He ranks as one of the greatest creeps in sports history.

Well, If both guys are dirty, and Carl STILL got dusted...then there you have it! Ben don *Molly Whopped* that azz! 🤣

Lewis also tested positive that same year.

I can't listen to Carl without thinking of his horrible and delightful rendition of The Star Spangled Banner.

He was dirty too !!! It’s in the 30 for 30 documentary!!!!

Two of the biggest tools of the sporting world in the same room…

Liar Lewis!!

Carl should lay low like Lance Armstrong should have after his initial retirement; I mean seriously.

Ben was like, "Hey, I was competing in a level playing field. I'm just the only one that got caught."

Years later we found out all the racers in this event including Carl Lewis were drugged. Carl did more drugs then all of them combined. Ben kicked all their asses that day and that year. He was so much better then Carl. Carl cheated. And he acts like he did nothing wrong. Carl also was found years after he had cheated with drugs about 15 times.

Ben Johnson said after the race one of Lewis’s people handed him a beer He said the beer was spiked with steroids and that’s why he was caught He admitted to doing steroids but said the stuff he got caught with wasn’t what he was taking

Wait, and Carl was clean? Come on.

At the end he seems to say that if the sport is completely clean, the times in the 100 would be 11 flat. Pretty well admitting his guilt and the guilt of all the top guys.

Ben won on a level playing field.

The hubris of this man to sit on that stage and say these things is utterly despicable. The binary of Good vs. Bad in a sport where EVERY mofo is on something is insane.

The hypocrisy here is off the charts as Carl Lewis was also on PEDs.

This can't be recent/real!!! This interview has to be a joke considering all we know about that time now. I must be in the simulation.

Carl was glowing on gear as well lol 😂😅

9.79 is the record. They’re all doped up. He got beat. Face it.

This is 36 years ago and he's still crying the blues. He was whining back then and still doing it, GET OVER IT! How many athletes back then and how many athletes now are still using band substances? Doesn't make it right, the science of masking is better now than it was 36 years ago. For Ben's one mistake when he was 26 years old, Carl is reminding the world 36 years later. I worked at a gym in NewMarket Ontario Canada where Ben did his strength training after he returned to "normal life" and he was never the same after all the ridicule he took from that one incident. He was stripped of all the medals he won prior. How does the athletic commission know that he was doping prior to the 88 Olympics. The pressure he must have felt to beat Carl must have been immense.

Carl you know the truth about doping

Johnson was not that stupid take the drugs to shortly before the olympics. His medical team checked him for sure before the run.

Please don't let Carl sing!!!

Track and Field was like Cycling.... Ben won the race... the fastest doped guy among all the other doped guys... Same with Lance... a legend... doped winner in a field of doped contenders

Carl was on the juice too. Missing tests etc. he’s delusional

Bens mistake, he got caught. Drugs or no drugs, Ben was the fastest.

They were all 'dirty'.

Still one of the Best 100 mtrs Races 🏁 of all time ⏲️ Ben Johnson was Electric out of the Blocks

Carl was also on the juice

1988 olympics was the roid olympics. Flo jo was juiced to the max too.

Some big companies wanted him to win!

Dan Patrick is consistent - consistent in interrupting all of his guests!

Carl was a great talent. Unfortunately, he was not a very likeable athlete. He just didn't translate to the fans. Just want to clarify the newspaper article shown about the Johnson Inquiry, it was called the "Dubin Inquiry", not the Johnson Inquiry ! W5 Canada, did an expose on the LA and how 4 top Olympic officals decided to keep the secret that 34 American athletes tested positive at the games. The results were in the safe of an US OC official, and they ended up disappearing. There is a document with the signatures. This Expose used to be on youtube.

This interview was done this year, so why does the interviewer completely perpetrate a false narrative and pretend that Carl didn’t dope too? He admitted it years ago. Am I living in bizarro world over here…?

I wanted to talk about how great of an athlete he was and how we all rooted for him so many years etc...but all I can say is how come after so many decades he still dont have one wrinkle and looks so young still !!!!!! Wasn't Carl also doped?

The women’s 400 and 800 meter world record are totally Juiced times! Those were the 1980’s. 🤔

They say the majority of athletes in the Olympics have used P.E.D.s so I am not sure why this is even being discussed.

In a short time after that 1988 Olympics race, I recall John Madden said that based upon the bulked-up physique Johnson had, that Johnson got his performance out of a bottle. And those words came prior to Johnson's doping test being made public. The attributed source of that was from his five-minute radio segment he had with morning radio show host Gene Nelson on radio station KSFO, San Francisco.

Carl was the most graceful sprinter I had ever seen and I admired his talent. But apart from the 3 failed drug tests in 1988 I also wondered why he had so many pimples on his face (much like Johnson) well into his 20's. His face miraculously cleared up after he retired from competition.

Outstanding perspective!!!

Carl Lewis was my hero growing up. To find out all these years later he would become this lying cynical two faced coward is shattering. Carl, drop the ego tell the truth and own up.

This guys ability to lie with a straight face is nearly as good as his running 🏃, he was also caught talking steroids as was every sprinter in that final field, do a quick google and every one in that final was caught talking steroids in their career, Ben was just not as good at cheating as some others . ..Carl is complete narcissist.

After 30 years of watching this play out I actually just feel sorry for Carl Lewis now. Carl we all know it was dirty. And we don’t actually care that much. We understand. Set yourself free. Tell the truth like Ben has. Sell a book and just make peace with your life. You’re older now and it’s best you don’t take this negative to the grave. Peace bro. God Bless.

Ben did not want to shake his hand because Carl had either pissed him off for something or said something bad about him before the race. Nonetheless, that was an amazing race.

Back then it was rumors and more rumors of track and field athletes testing positive but no actual prof. False accusations that really hurt the sport....

He is being honest about his experience and of his take on Johnson. Back then EVERYONE was using them but doing it to not get caught. It WAS the sport and doesn't make him worse or better than the rest.

Before Noah Lyles, there was this guy

One dirty runner got caught and the other got the win by default

Carl also was under drags influence but they didnt cought him

I really hope Carl would just come out and admit he used PED and turn a page for everyone. It's pointless to bring the secrets to the grave and live in denial for the rest of his life.

He reminds me of how Floyd Mayweather talks..almost an identical insecurity.

He was also a cheat. Disgraceful by him.

that eye rub at :37 seconds means something......

Carl Lewis took steroids too! Despicable man. 🤦‍♀️

Still talking about Ben after all these years. Always gotta deflect hey Carl?!

The one thing that can not be denied...Carl ran like a gazelle. Poetry in motion.

Lewis has now acknowledged that he failed three tests during the 1988 US Olympic trials, which under international rules at the time should have prevented him from competing in the Seoul games two months later.

same did not happen with Flo Jo :) mens 100m race cover the 100m women... all in olympics 1988

Carl Lewis was mad that he got smoked in that race he knew he couldn't beat Ben Johnson Ben was so explosive out the blocks and had amazing top end speed Carl was never going to beat Ben Johnson in that race or any other race stop the dam crying CL

HE'S GOT SOME NERVE!!!

Talked to a pro runner one day and he told me everyone is doped up. Its’s about who doesn’t get caught. They’re great athletes but many of them are juiced

Un - F ing - believable

To be fair, antidoping in 1988 is not the same as in 2024. Without going into a lot of details, in 1988 only 2 types of doping were clear and that was anabolic steroids for speed and power events and blood doping/epo for endurance events. If the IOC busted every athlete who tested positive for banned substances other than steroids and epo, I estimate that over 50 percent of the Olympic athletes would have been sent home. Most stimulants at that time were added to the ban list in 1988 only a couple months before the Olympics Games. At that time, stimulants were everywhere, in supplements and many over-the-counter medicines. In 1988, Carl and several other USA athletes tested positive at the U.S. Olympic Trials, but stated their stimulant usage was inadvertent. It is a fair debate whether Carl knowingly took stimulants; however, 2 important things to know are, Carl was tested at the Olympics and did not compete with stimulants in his system at the 1988 Olympics. In terms of performance enhancing, stimulants are a world of difference from anabolic steroids usage. And in the case of Ben Johnson, testing was so crude back then that if he had stopped doping a week before the games, he probably would not have been caught, but he was literally doping the day before his race. - Not saying Carl is completely innocent but the Ben Johnson comparison is not fair.

The one thing I will never tolerate is Hypocrisy….

Charlie Jones on the call. Amazing. Best announcer of that era.

I believe all the sprinters in that 1988 100m final were found guilty of doping at one time or another 😅

Imagine Ben Johnson V Carl Lewis in the Enhanced Games...

LOL he, Christie, Smith were all doped to the gills. Ben was just the one they chose to make an example of. And trust me I am no Ben Johnson fan, but I am not blind to reality. Victor Conte put it best, nobody who made the semis of any sprint event didn't dope back then. For the record I believe Usian Bolt dopes too and I don't care since so do all his competitors (for instance his 4 biggest career rivals- Gatlin, Gay, Powell, Blake all failed multiple doping tests) and he dominated them all over both 100 and 200 for so long like nobody in history. Atleast he isn't a hypocrite about it either, calling out any of his rivals who failed drug tests, while being a massive doper themselves sitting on their emperor with no clothes high horse (nudge nudge Carl Lewis).

If you ain't legal the time ain't either.

Carl Lewis , in my opinion is the greatest Track and Field athlete ever BUT Ben Johnson beat him on a level playing field that day- I don’t believe Carl is being honest at all and there were many positive tests to prove that. Nobody can dispute his greatness - easily the best Long Jumper the world has ever seen- if he was competing right now in his prime, he would never be beaten.

Give respect to Ben please

Carl ran dirty like most of the athletes in this contest. Ever the showman, he can't get enough of his own BS. Carl, you've never let that man out of your mind for what he did to you that day--beat your ass.

They were all at it.

Calvin Smith was the highest placer who retired with a clean record. Linford had that nandrolone case in 1999 but that was likely a false positive.

Wait.. wasn't this guy dirty as well ? I mean as he is giving this interview before his was found out ? 😂😂

Ben smoked your old ass😂😂

Wow, when I read 'TRUTH' on the title, I thought he was finally going to admit that he was as dirty as Ben Johnson.

I read that was the dirtiest 100m dash in Olympic history. Did Carl admit to being dirty too in this interview?

The actual watching Johnson move like that is a good spectacle.