While researching the subject of Olympic sprinter reaction times for use in my recent Pressure-Hull Collapse posting, I ran across the following comment with reference to the disqualification of Ben Johnson, the Canadian sprinter who - for 24 hours - appeared to have won the 1988 Olympic 100m event in a world-record time of 9.79s.

The quote: "As always, Johnson denied that he had ever taken performance-enhancing drugs (PEDs), although by 1988 he looked as if somebody had put an air hose in his mouth and turned it on."

Remember another story on Johnson and it was in one of the Canadian newspapers.

Three pictures and they were captioned as such

Canadian wins gold medal -- Canadian Jamaican accused of using drugs -- Jamaican losses gold medal