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"In a 1989 story for which he was purportedly paid $25,000, Darrell Robinson, a former teammate of Griffith-Joyner, claimed that he sold her 10 c.c. of growth hormone for $2,000 in 1988. He said Joyner told him: 'if you want to make $1 million, you've got to invest some thousands.' Robinson also claimed to receive steroids from coach Bob Kersee, and said he saw Carl Lewis inject himself with drugs he believed to be testosterone.

"Robinson never provided any evidence for his allegations and was shunned by the athletics community, leading to the premature end of his career.

"After the 1988 Olympics Griffith-Joyner retired from competitive track and field, just before the introduction of mandatory random drug testing in 1989. She was repeatedly tested during competition, and she passed all of these drug tests.

"After her death in 1998, Prince Alexandre de Merode, the Chairman of the International Olympic Committee's medical commission, claimed that Griffith-Joyner was singled out for extra, rigorous drug testing during the 1988 Olympic Games due to rumors of steroid use. De Merode told The New York Times that Manfred Donike, who was at that time considered to be the foremost expert on drugs and sports, failed to discover any banned substances during that testing. De Merode was not without controversy himself, having been accused of covering up drug tests at the 1984 Games, and following record-shattering performances by Chinese swimmers in the 1990s, the World Anti-Doping Agency was created, effectively removing control of drug testing from the IOC and De Merode. De Merode later said 'We performed all possible and imaginable analyses on her. We never found anything. There should not be the slightest suspicion.' "


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