OTTAWA, Reuter: Canadian Sprinter Ben Johnson stopped taking steroids several days to a few weeks before being tested at the games in Seoul, an International Olympic Committee Medical Officer said.

Dr. Robert Dugal said the tests taken after Johnson won the 100 meter sprint final showed’ conclusively he had been taking the banned steroid Stanozolol over an extended period.

He said it was difficult to tell exactly when the Athlete stopped taking the drug

The World’s fastest man was stripped of his Gold Medal after his urine showed traces of the muscle building drug. Johnson maintains he never knowingly took steroids,

Dugal, who helped design the test used ‘on Johnson, said he had no doubt about the validity of the procedure.

Dugal, a Pharmacologist and Head of the University of Quebec’s National Institute for Scientific Research said Johnson’s claim of innocence was typical of many Athletes after failing a test for steroids.

“It was just a continuation of the denials we have been hearing for the past 20 years,” Dugal told Reuters in a telephone interview from Montreal.

“I would hope people would have more imagination,” he added.

NEW YORK: Reuter; Heavyweight Champion Mike Tyson, whose actress wife Robin Givens has filed for divorce, moved quickly this week to have joint accounts worth millions of dollars put in his own name, the New York Post said on Saturday.

‘Quoting unidentified sources close to the 22 year old multimillionaire Boxer, the newspaper said that Tyson also cancelled all of his wife’s credit cards.

She announced on Friday that she had filed for divorce.

“Mike went to all the banks involved and switched the accounts into his name and his name only, making it impossible for her to attach any of the funds.” the post quoted one source as saying.

“Mike Tyson’s assets are safe, very safe,” another source said. *…we went to Tyson’s banks to make sure that only Tyson had the authority {o sign checks and we cancelled all the credit cards.”

Givens, 23, way granted court ordered protection from Tyson, a self-described manic depressive, who she says went on a rampage at their home last weekend in the latest of a string of incidents in their highly publicized eight-month marriage,

NEW YORK: Boxer Muhammad Ali has signed a deal for a six hour documentary, film series on his life, Ali won the World Heavyweight Championship six times.

The documentary will cost seven million USD and will combine file footage of Ali with taped commentary by the Boxer and his associates. A company called Directors International Productions will make the film.

Article extracted from this publication >> October 14, 1988