As the 1988 Summer Olympic Games in Seoul, Korea, approached, the buzz throughout the world centered around the 100-meter race featuring the two fastest humans on earth, Ben Johnson of Canada and Carl Lewis of the United States. This was the most highly anticipated race in the history of the sport. Nothing compared. This is what all the world talked about, what all the world longed to see. Ten magnificent, heart-pounding, riveting seconds.
Nearly 100,000 people jammed into Olympic Stadium on Saturday, September 24, to view this marquee showdown between two human blurs that disdain one another, elevating the matchup into another stratosphere.
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