Friday, July 20, 2012

Ringing in the Olympics: Ben Johnson



Of course, the big headlines in 1988 were generated by this guy, who I first encountered on the news, not on the track but wandering around bemusedly in a tracksuit while surrounded by a veritable platoon of photographers. I promptly asked my Mum what drugs were. And a little bit of my innocence, as Don McLean might have put it, took the last train for the coast.

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