The governing world body of athletics will not be investigating claims and confessions of sabotage and cover-ups disclosed in autobiography of Ben Johnson since the body is not obliged to take any action under its own statue of limitations.

The disgraced Seoul Olympics 100m champion, Johnson, claimed that his drink was spiked with Stanozolol, the banned steroid, just before he was about to leave for a urine test after his Olympic win.

From Dailytelegraph.com.au:

Johnson exclusively told The Daily Telegraph that he had obtained a taped confession from the “mystery man” who drank beer with him in the restricted zone in the Olympic doping control area while Johnson waited to provide a urine sample for drug testers after setting another world record in Seoul.

That man is allegedly former US footballer and now diamond dealer Andre Jackson - a “family friend” of American runner-up Carl Lewis who directly benefited from the Canadian’s disqualification.

Johnson alleges Jackson confessed to him and business associate Di-anne Hudson, a Toronto lawyer, that Jackson spiked Johnson’s drinks with the steroid Stanozolol - and not for the first time. There is no suggestion Lewis ever knew of the plan.

Johnson claims there was enough Stanozolol in his sample “to kill a cow” but he denies using that drug. He does, however, admit to having used an obscure East German designer steroid called Furazobol up until six weeks before the Games.

It is worth noting here that the International Association of Athletics Federations has a self-imposed statute of limitations for eight years in doping cases and this doping incident cannot be investigated as Seoul games ended 21 years ago.

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