2 Sep 2013

Ben Johnson to re-visit Seoul Olympic track 25 years after his downfall

5:20 pm on 2 September 2013

The disgraced drugs cheat Ben Johnson will revisit the scene of his downfall this month, wrapping up a global anti-doping tour in the Seoul Olympic stadium where he won his steroid-assisted 100m gold.

The Canadian sprinter will visit the stadium on September 24th, the 25th anniversary of his run in the 1988 Olympic final in which he stormed to victory in a world record time of 9.79sec.

Three days later he was stripped of his medal, his time and ultimately his career after it was announced that he had tested positive for stanozolol, a banned anabolic steroid.

Johnson is now heading up the ChooseTheRightTrack campaign, which calls for new strategies to combat continued drug use in athletics.

Athletics has recently been rocked by a string of doping cases, including high-profile athletes like Tyson Gay, Asafa Powell and Veronica Campbell-Brown.

The sport's world governing body, the IAAF, announced last month that it would impose four-year bans for drug offenders from 2015.