When former 100 metres Olympic champion Ben Johnson's agent, the unctuous Morris Chrobotek, arrived in Dublin just over two years ago to spread the word that Ben was saintly and misunderstood, he became quite tetchy when it was pointed out how Ben had not only been caught cheating at the Seoul Games but owned up to it. Morris, or "Mo Rees" as he was rechristened, is now fighting the tarnished track star in the courts with the spill over into the press making it look more like a messy divorce. Mo Rees, during his short stay in Dublin's Shelbourne Hotel, developed a habit of ringing up Dublin newspapers to complain they were not portraying his athlete as the scapegoat of the 1988 Olympics (to which there was some substance).

Chrobotek, who was Johnson's agent for four years and firmly believed the sprinter was a "lovely human being", filed a lawsuit for more than $1 million against Johnson. Far from Ben simply taking what all the other athletes were taking, as Chrobotek alleged, the lawyer is now blaming Ben's third positive drug test in 1999 for their break-up last spring.

Don't say we didn't tell you so Mo Rees.