Ben Johnson's Disqualification at the Seoul Olympics

through the Report of Dubin's Commission

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to clarify Ben Johnson's disqualification at the Seoul Olympics through the analysis of Dubin's inquiry report, then to understand the environment around doping practice in sports.
As to Ben Johnson's disqualification, Dubin's inquiry report concludes that at first, there were not exchange of the sample, mistake in the analysis and sabotage, secondly Ben Johnson was fully aware of taking steroids from 1981 to the Seoul Olympics in September 1988, thirdly the last estragol on August 28, 1988 was less than the usual assumed clearance time of twenty-eight clear days before the final 100 meter event, and finally the estragol which was administered by Dr Astaphan was the stanozolol of the injectable Winstrol-Veterinary use only.
The environment around doping practice obtained through Dubin's inquiry report is understood as follows: doping is a project involved by athlete, coach and medical doctor, in the free society the idea of informed-consent between athlete and coach and/or medical doctor functions in doping practice, and there exists the widespread conventional reason that doping is not cheating among the parties in sports.
The present author suggests that the detailed analysis of the recommendations presented by the Commission needs for anti-doping activities.