Is it true that Carl Lewis was taking steroids?

Question

I read that recently in the media that it came out that he took steroids during his career. Is that really true?

If it is, then who can you really still trust in track and field. Ben Johnson, Maurice Greene, Marion Jones, are all athletes who I thought were amazing and just turned out to be on steroids. I still think that Michael Johnson had a lot of luck not getting caught.

Answer 1

He took cold medicine.

Answer 2

Carl Lewis was not accused of using steriods but tested positive three times before the 1988 Olympics for pseudoephedrine, ephedrine, and phenylpropanolamine, banned stimulants and bronchiodilators also found in cold medication, and had been banned from the Seoul Olympics and from competition for six months. The USOC accepted his claim of inadvertent use and overturned the decision. Fellow Santa Monica Track Club teammates Joe DeLoach and Floyd Heard were also found to have the same banned stimulants in their systems, and were cleared to compete for the same reason. The positive results occurred at the Olympic Trials in July 1988 where athletes were required to declare on the drug-testing forms "over-the-counter medication, prescription drugs and any other substances you have taken by mouth, injection or by suppository."

For further details on this see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Lewis