PARIS: At the time it was hailed the greatest 100 metres race in history, but within 24 hours Ben Johnson had been stripped of his gold medal for taking drugs.
Now Johnson is threatening to sue the International Olympic Committee after the top American Olympic drugs chief alleged Carl Lewis should never have run in the 1988 Seoul Olympics because he had tested postive for drugs himself.
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