What positive drug test made worldwide news at the 1988 Seoul Olympics?

Ben Johnson ran a 9.79 in the 100 meter dash, braking his own world record, in the finals in Seoul. A subsequent uranalysis showed stanozolol in his system. He was disqualified and, when he admitted to steroid use in 1987 when setting the world record, that record was erased.

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