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Article: Ben Johnson Finds Europe to Be Moving Experience - and Money's Not Bad
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- The Washington Post
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- March 6, 1991
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He's "Back on Track" and he's yours if you still want him. For
$7, you can buy a poster of him churning down the track, his thick
gold chain swinging in the breeze. For $16, you can pick up his
latest T-shirt. Or drink his very own Isosport energy drink for just
$1.
He's Ben Johnson, and oh yes, you can even watch him run once
again. Back from a two-year suspension for failing a drug test at
the 1988 Olympics, Johnson is on a five-city, three-week European
tour, making TV appearances, sitting for interviews with just about
anyone, doing, as he says, "so much PR, I'm just trying not to get
tired out."
"How many questions have you had to answer on this tour?" a
German reporter asked Johnson ...