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World's Fastest Man : The Incredible Life of Ben Johnson by Mary Ormsby is a biography available to read on EtoBox.
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"For twenty-four hours in the summer of 1988, Canada's Ben Johnson was the most celebrated athlete on the planet. He'd won the 100-metre sprint at the Seoul Olympics in a world-record 9.79 seconds and just had time to say, "A gold medal--that's something no one can take away from you," before testing positive for performance enhancing drugs and giving back his medal. Admitting to steroid use, Johnson has lived in ignominy ever since, but there's much more to his incredible story. The sprint he w
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Mary Ormsby
- Publisher
- Sutherland House Books
- Published
- 2024
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781990823732
- Category
- biography
- Subjects
- Memoir, Sports, Biography
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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