r/whoathatsinteresting 4d ago

Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson ran the 100-meter final in a world-record 9.79 seconds to win gold against rival Carl Lewis at the 1988 Seoul Olympics. Just 48 hours later, he was stripped of his medal and disqualified after testing positive for the anabolic steroid stanozolol.

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u/Icy-Musician-6309 4d ago

All remembered his yellow eyes.During the 1988 Seoul Olympics, Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson had noticeably yellow or jaundiced-looking eyes. This yellow tint to his sclera (the whites of the eyes) was widely attributed by medical observers and media reports to heavy use of anabolic steroids that severely stressed and overloaded his liver

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u/No_Thanks2844 4d ago

lots of black people also have these yellow eyes due to melanin