More Info on the Insanity of Ben Johnson

I wrote back in December how Ben Johnson claims that Carl Lewis got him to drink a tainted beer, causing Ben Johnson to lose his 1988 gold medal. I didn't have the time in December to fully report on Ben Johnson and his insanity. You see, my Canadian friend told me about how when he lived up in Toronto, he went to this track near his college and saw Ben Johnson who was acting as trainer/coach for Argentine soccer legend Diego Maradona. But it wasn’t just the two of them, they also had security guys in jumpsuits and suspiciously large fanny packs… and my friend sincerely believes each fanny pack contained a firearm. I didn’t believe him but wikipedia does at least corroborate that Ben Johnson “also briefly acted as trainer for Diego Maradona in 1987.” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Johnson_%28sprinter%29

Then, I found out even more weird things about Ben Johnson – The 1990s apparently were not very kind to Ben Johnson. According to wikipedia at this moment, “Ben Johnson spent much of the latter part of the 1990's living downstairs in the house he shared with his mother and sister. He spent his leisure time reading, watching movies and Roadrunner cartoons, and taking his mother to church.”

After getting sick of watching Roadrunner cartoons, Ben Johnson apparently found another experience in training another person to fail his drug test:
“In 1999 Johnson made headlines again when it was revealed that he had been hired by Libyan dictator Muammar al-Qaddafi to act as a soccer coach for his son, Al-Saadi Qadhafi, who aspired to join an Italian soccer club. Al-Saadi ultimately did join an Italian team but was sacked after one game when he failed a drugs test. Johnson's publicist in Canada had predicted in The Globe and Mail that his training of the young Gadhafi would earn Johnson a Nobel Peace Prize.”

What does Ben Johnson do now you ask? Well, he has the Ben Johnson Collection – where Ben Johnson sells clothing and supplements that you can’t get anywhere else. You also can email him because as he says, “I teach people how to run.” He also can be hired for “Performance testing and evaluation.”-http://www.benjohnsoncollection.com/home.php (click on the Services link). I’m guessing, that means he teaches you how to cheat without getting caught. Or so he hopes!

My only question is why Jose Canseco hasn't opened his own website where he can be hired for "Performance testing and evaluation."