document: Canadian Ben Johnson left the Olympics today `` in a complete state of shock , '' accused of cheating with drugs in the world 's fastest 100-meter dash and stripped of his gold medal . The prize went to American Carl Lewis . Many athletes accepted the accusation that Johnson used a muscle-building but dangerous and illegal anabolic steroid called stanozolol as confirmation of what they said they know has been going on in track and field . `` Everybody uses drugs , '' said sprinter Horace Dove-Edwin of Sierra Leone . `` Give me a break ... they have everything . Human blood hormone , all kinds of drugs . Steroids is nothing anymore . It is just an itty-bitty drug . You can get it anywhere . '' Red-eyed and visibly distraught , Johnson 's sister , Clare Rodney in suburban Toronto , refused to believe the accusation . `` If you could cut him into a million pieces and test him over again , my brother is not on drugs , '' she said . Two tests of Johnson 's urine sample proved positive and his denials of drug use were rejected today . Neither a spiked sarsparilla in his track bag , as his coach suggested , nor a switched sample at the lab could have accounted for the levels of steroids found in the tests , officials said . In a middle-of-the-night meeting with Olympic and Canadian officials , family members , coach and manager , Johnson , 26 , forfeited his most prized possession , the medal he 'd had in his hands for only three days . The world 's fastest human also was automatically suspended from international competition for two years and banned from Canada 's national team for life . `` He appeared to be in a complete state of shock and not comprehending the situation , '' said Canada 's chief of mission , Carol Anne Letheren . `` Ben was not able to discuss or articulate anything at that moment ... He was just not able to speak and it was a very difficult moment for all of us . '' A few hours later , he fled to the airport and boarded a plane to New York 's Kennedy International Airport . Once there , he made his way through a crush of reporters without comment as some spectators applauded . He took a limousine to LaGuardia Airport for a flight to his Toronto home . `` This is a blow for the Olympic Games and the Olympic movement , '' said International Olympic Committee President Juan Antonio Samaranch . In Canada , Prime Minister Brian Mulroney said the scandal was a `` personal tragedy for Ben and his family . It 's also a moment of great sorrow for all Canadians . '' James Worrall , a Canadian member of the IOC , said Johnson `` has been killed '' as an athlete . He said the sprinter 's once-favored status as a hero to many sports fans in Canada , his native Jamaica , and around the world now will be tarnished . Johnson 's name will go down in Olympic history with other athletes who lost their gold medals , such as decathlete Jim Thorpe in 1912 because he played semi-pro baseball and swimmer Rick DeMont in 1972 because he took an asthma medicine . Lewis did not gloat over his rival 's fall . `` I feel sorry for Ben and for the Canadian people , '' he said today . `` Ben is a great competitor and I hope he is able to straighten out his life and return to competition . '' He said he did not want `` to fuel this controversy '' by commenting further . After Saturday 's race , though , Lewis had said he could n't understand how Johnson could run as fast as he did after looking tired in qualifying heats . Lewis has previously alleged widespread drug use in track and field . Dr. Robert Dugal , a Canadian member of the IOC medical commission , called stanozolol `` one of the most dangerous anabolic steroids . It has the effect of leading to a number of disturbances of the liver , including cancer . ''
extractive_keyphrases: canadian ben johnson olympics american carl lewis illegal anabolic steroid drug use gold medal sprinter
abstractive_keyphrases: 100-meter dash