IAAF Erases Johnson’s World Records
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TOKYO — Track and field’s international governing body decided Saturday to strip Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson of world records in the 100-meter and the indoor 50- and 60-meter dashes because of his use of performance-enhancing drugs, International Amateur Athletic Federation spokesman Franco Fava said.
Fava said the decision gave six-time Olympic gold medalist Carl Lewis his first world record in an outdoor individual event--9.92 seconds in the 100 meters, run in the 1988 Olympics, where he finished behind Johnson’s 9.79.
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