The International Olympic committee has setup WADA the World Anti Doping Association to test all athletes and then again medal winners. ... Ben Johnson In the 1988 Summer Olympic Games in Seoul. Ben Johnson of Canada won the 100 meter sprint, setting a new Olympic and world record for the event. ... Ben Johnson ran the Olympic race illegally. He was stripped of his gold medal and of his Olympic and world records. ...
The Sports Illustrated media magazine once reported that half of all surveyed Olympic athletes admitted that they would be ready to voluntarily take PED even if it were to potentially kill them, as long as the drug would allow them to win every event they entered five years in a row. ... The International Olympics Committee (I.O.C) keeps legal possession of the athlete's samples of blood and urine for eight years after the Olympic games. During the following eight years, techniques developed would enable the committee to test the samples to detect a prohibited substance. ...
