The dispute is usually between the Canadian members on the list and all others, not the general international members. Every drug test apparently has some controversy about how it was administered. Johnson's falls into that broad category.
RMc At 10:49 AM 7/14/2002 -0700, t-and-f-digest wrote.. >Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2002 17:18:12 -0400 >From: "Martin J. Dixon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: t-and-f: RE: Johnson on the list > >Someone who knows! Anyone familiar with the situation knows that Ben should >not have been caught in the manner he was at Seoul. What entities and/or >individuals had an interest in seeing him go down? Charlie and his crew were >as good as or better than some of the other medallists that year at their drug >craft. They were just naive at how far some would go to nail him. >Regards, >Martin > >Dan Kaplan wrote: > > > --- Richard McCann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Johnson was caught breaking the rules > > > > That's highly debatable. > > > > 1) He wasn't caught when he was breaking the rules. > > > > 2) When he was caught, it appears to have been for rules he didn't break, > > or at least rules that weren't actually known rules at the time. > > > > That's not to say Ben wasn't guilty of cheating -- no question that he was > > -- but attempts to color it black and white (almost always an argument > > between US and international list members, by the way) is laughable at > > best. > > > > Dan
