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They said it: Declarations of drug-testing independence

By ESPN.com

Thursday, May 22, 2008

The past 20 years of drug testing in sports have been a long, sometimes strange, trip, especially at the Olympics. The people charged with the struggle against performance-enhancing drugs certainly have made progress since the 1988 Summer Games in Seoul, South Korea, when Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson was disqualified several days after he won the gold medal in the 100 meters. But do those people sound any different now than they did back then? You be the judge. Here's an over-the-years smatteri ...

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