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

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

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 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.

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.

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

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.

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

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!!

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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. 🤡

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Please don't let Carl sing!!!

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

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

Lewis also tested positive that same year.

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.

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

Lets remember that in 88, there was no out of competition drug testing.

Outstanding perspective!!!

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

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.

Saw Carl win at Crystal Palace track meet in London in 1986. Coe too!

Ben won on a level playing field.

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.

Carl Lewis the dirtiest "clean " athlete of those olympics

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.

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

Liar Lewis!!

6 of the 8 guys in that race were on PEDs

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....

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

Loved watching Carl run. Excellent athlete.

Wait, and Carl was clean? Come on.

Carl was the most natural spot's man ever

Carl Lewis took steroids too! Despicable man. 🤦‍♀️

Carl was also on the juice

Who were the six athletes who tested positive

I remember watching this like 😲

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

Carl was glowing on gear as well lol 😂😅

things have changed since then guys are faster... everyone uses

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.

Johnson blew the doors off Lewis so bad that he ran out of lane eating dust. I don't care about the medal.

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

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 non-boycotted Olympic Games (both summer and winter) during the Cold War Era were a totally different animal. It was an Us v. Them mentality being played by both the US and the USSR where both sides did what was needed for the political stability of the entire globe in which it brought. The unofficial official stance of the two central governments, "fine so long as to not get caught." That should never be denied.

He was also a cheat. Disgraceful by him.

HE'S GOT SOME NERVE!!!

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 Lewis is the biggest lier in the history of the Olympics. Ben Johnson suggested that someone from Carl’s camp spiked Ben’s beer after the race and I believe him. Yes Ben was juiced and I’m not trying to excuse that but Carl was Juiced also but it was overlooked and rules were bent and changed for him. A invalid positive is a failed drug test. Why he still gets to take the high road is amazing

So basically we all know Ben Johnson was the best of the best. The finals = juiced field regardless of if you believe in Santa or not.

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.

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.

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.

Doping does not make you run faster,he smoked Carl,what a bunch of BS!

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

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

Some big companies wanted him to win!

Around the time of the 1984 Summer Olympics, ask yourself why a number of track stars we wearing braces? Hmmm?

Carl's piss is still used to fuel energy drink companies.

It’s hard to listen to this guy and take his comments about Ben Johnson seriously. Every single runner in that final eventually tested positive. It’s common knowledge now. Why wouldn’t the interviewer mention that? I gather it was a precondition for the interview.

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.

For me, and this my personal opinion, Calvin Smith was the only clean athlete of that era.

Carl Lewis wasn't clean either.

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

The difference was Ben got caught Carl didn't!!

He was a drug cheat to. The whole field was. He is just a two faced liar.

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.

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

Carl took shit too during his career and the drugs obviously didn't help his singing

Carl you know the truth about doping

The only "clean" sprinters in that race was Desilva and Calvin Smith.

Ben is a Jamaican Canadian greatest sprinters on earth Steroids have nothing to do with it Grew up in the same areas as Ben everyone in the area could run, he is just 1 of many guys from our area that could beat any American sprinters

Sh#t reporting . Carl and all the rest were dirty.

As long as Carl didn’t dry snitch…. He let the process work itself out. Good man.

Every single person in that race got popped eventually for steroids except Lewis.

"Ben is dirty...this is ridiculous...and then the other side is...I'm just as doped as he is..." Dude was mad that Johnson had a better chemist than him. All of these interviews with athletes like Carl Lewis are G-R-O-S-S, it's amazing that athletes are so comfortable sitting there and just lying straight-faced to so many millions of people. It's actually creepy...comes across as sociopathic.

Dan has made a CAREER out of interrupting!! Legend but come on man!

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

absolute b.s. I talked to Ben. Carl and most of the other sprinters were all taking steriods. such utter lies here Carl.

Who here thinks Lewis was clean??

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.

Lewis and two of his training partners all took the same three types of banned stimulants and were caught at the 1988 US Olympic trials, according to the documents released by a disgruntled former senior US anti-doping official, Dr Wade Exum. But on appeal to their national Olympic committee, all were cleared of inadvertent doping. Two months later, at the Seoul Olympics, Lewis finished second in the 100 metres sprint. But when Canadian Ben Johnson failed his Olympic drug test, Lewis was awarded the 100m gold.

All I can think about is that National Anthem 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

The gullible are in full flow talking about who else ran dirty. Where’s your proof?

I believe Carl told on everybody, he just seem like that type, he didnt talk about the 3 or 4 times he tested positive. I never liked Carl Lewis he just came along at the right time in history to accomplish what he did.

Carl Lewis is trying to re-write history with his altrnative facts.🤣

carl was on the juice also