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BEN Johnson has urged long-time rival Carl Lewis to "come clean" and admit to the use of performance enhancing drugs and clear his conscience.
Lewis tested positive three times to banned stimulants during his decorated athletics career – highlighted by five sprinting and four long jump Olympic gold medals - but was cleared by the US Olympic Association.
He tested positive at the 1988 US Olympic trials. Two months later he was awarded the gold medal in the 100m at Seoul after the race winner, Johnson, was banned for testing positive to the anabolic steroid stanozolol.
Johnson, now an anti-drugs crusader, is in Australia advocating that the International Olympic Committee better fund the World Anti Doping Authority. And he took aim at his old rival, Lewis, suggesting "he is not a man" unless he confessed to drug use.
"We know several times before the Olympic Games he tested positive," Johnson told foxsports.com.au.
"And for him preaching the word that he's clean and working with kids, I challenge him to come on this campaign, tell the truth, tell the world that he has used performance enhancing drugs.
"He would be ashamed but he would be a man to come forward and we can work together. If he can't come face to face we know what he is. He is not a man."
Lewis conceded in an interview in 2003 that he tested positive to three banned stimulants but claimed "the climate was different then."
Johnson, a Canadian, said Lewis' nationality was the reason he retained his two gold medals from the Seoul Olympics.
"(He) Tested positive several times but he's been protected," Johnson said. "Because he's American.
"I have a clear conscience. For me that is number one. He has to live with that conscience and that conscience is a lie and he knows that."
Despite their differences, Johnson is adamant Lewis should accept the offer to join him on his campaign. But he remains sceptical that that would ever eventuate.
"I am not afraid of Carl," Johnson said. "He is not going to come forward because he is not a man."
Johnson, 51, believes drugs in sport are much "worse" today than when he was competing.
But will professional sports as an entity ever be clean?
"I can't promise it will ever be clean - I am just trying to do my part," he said.
"I am trying to change a young generation to not go through what I went through. I came through the fire and moving on with my life doing something positive to society. At no time at all during my career I was a danger to the public at all. Criminals get a few years and I get a lifetime ban because I broke the rules of track and field."
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