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As Letheren spoke Johnson
u.is already on Ins wav home
He and his entourage chocked
out of their hotel in the middle
of the night. leaving behind a
messy room of forgotten lug
gage, flowers and congratulato
ry messages
liv the time reporters (.aught
up with him .it Seoul's kimpo
Airport, he was surrounded by
a phalanx of police who were
charged with escorting him to
his New York-bound plane
Johnson was soon gone from
the Olympics, but aftershoi ks
rocked Seoul for days
The Korean Herald, one of
the country's two English lan
guage newspapers, came out
with a two-page extra edition
The screaming headline said it
all "Hen johnson Stripped ol
Gold For Dope, Medal Goes to
Lewis."
Johnson's reputation was
quickly being torn down like a
condemned building.
A banner hanging from one
ti.ili on\ m Ini' athletes village
re,id ‘ I nun Hero to Zero In
<1 7‘l " lohnson |okes i|iii( kI\
made the rounds, most of them
r.u 1st and many of them ques
tinning the man's intelligent e
In the past year the shv Ja
mail an-horn sprinter has heen
through an emotional upheaval
sparked In what may well tie
remembered as the biggest drug
scandal in amateur sports
The International Amateur
Athletic federation the world
governing body of tra< k and
field, dealt lohnson another
( rushing blow Sept a when it
voted to strip him ot Ills t'187
world record
Despite the best efforts ol
those around him. lohnson has
been unable to run away Irom
the notoriety that has haunted
him since Seoul
When lie resumed training
last November at Toronto's
York University lie had a mi
nor run in with <i photogni
pher
in Ma\ there was a i harge
against .1 man who was in
volved in an altercation with
lohnson outside a trendy To
ronto iustro I lie ini uii*nt left
lohnson with .1 hroken tooth
and swollen jaw and his moth
ei s car with .1 smashed wind
shield
Then one month ago |ohn
son was given .1 10ndition.il
disi harge and plat ed on proha
lion lor one year alter pleading
guiltv to assault That charge
stemmed from an 1111 ident in
which Johnson pointed a start
er s pistol at another motorist
on a Toronto highway two
weeks after he returned Irom
Seoul
A 1 ertein degree ot 1 otnpas
sum must go to Mr lohnson
Judge Ian Mat Donnell salt! in
handing down the senteni e
During testimonv at a federal
inquiry into drug use in tuna
teur s|M>rt an investigation
spawned In Ins positive test .it
Seoul Johnson i ited a |amai
i an proverl) when asked about
Ins life now
III ve lost friends now they
were friends I didn't need, he
said III |.1 li 1.111 a w e sav there
are two types ol friends the
ones who help you plant trees
and the ones who just come to
sit under them
Those < loses! to him are Inn
dler Mark Mi ho\ and sprinter
Des.u Williams In August, a
tuxedo c lad lohnson served as
an usher at Williams' wedding
liM ept lor two television in
ten levs s m lairope lor w Inc h
lohnson was paid the sprint
er has heeded the ad\ u e ot Ins
lawyer and |ustii:e (diaries Du
Inn head ot the federal inquiry,
and not spoken on the rec ord to
the media
lohnson is, however taking
his anti-drug crusade to the
public Sunil.iv i'\.u 11\ one
year after Ins mi i' .it Seoul. hi*.
Mi hoy unci Williams writ' part
nt a politr anti drug lan^iaign
at a loronto shopping mall
johnson looks trim and fit
and Ills phvsinil appraram r
lias t hanged littlo Mini1 Sroul
Hr maintains I7.r> pounds on
Ins a loot u tramr and is still
capable ot hcnch-prossiug -170
pounds and squat lilting •>!>()
pounds
In tlir months after Seoul,
three youngsters sent |t)hnson
gold medals they had won Ills
oldest sislei De/.rriur. answers
fan letters and |ohnson has
signed more than 7 (ItIt) posters
to m.ol to i hildren w ho har e
written him
"I want to tell them to hr
honest," lohnson said "Don't
t.ike drugs It happened to me
I re hern there I know what
it's like to i heal
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