On wine, sport and why they make good bedfellows
On wine, sport and why they make good bedfellows
Jan 28, 2013 6
On September 24, at the 1988 Seoul Olympic games, the rivalry between Ben Johnson and Carl Lewis came to a head when Johnson won the 100 meter sprint in a time of 9.79 seconds. Subsequent drug tests revealed that Johnson used Stanazolol, a banned substance and he was promptly stripped of his gold medal. Back in the present, after nearly a decade of alleged doping, Lance Armstrong came clean about his use of various banned substances that surely contributed to him winning seven Tour de France titles.
In 1985, German laboratories uncovered the widespread use of diethylene glycol in Austrian wines. This toxic substance (the diethylene glycol, not the Austrian wines!) made late harvest wines sweeter and more full-bodied. Jail sentences and heavy fines were handed down to key players in this scandal.
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