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Toronto celebrates Johnson's 'Fastest Man' title
In 1976, Benjamin Sinclair Johnson was just a skinny immigrant kid struggling to make his high school track team. A decade later, he was a destroyer of world records, the "world's fastest man." Then it all came crashing down. His positive steroid test at the 1988 Seoul Olympics made headlines around the world, forever changing perceptions of Canadian athletes, the sport of track and field, and Ben Johnson.
Program: CBC Television News
Broadcast Date: Sept. 29, 1987
Guest(s): Ben Johnson
Reporter: Jonathan Mann
Duration: 1:35
Last updated: April 19, 2012
Page consulted on March 28, 2013
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