race in Rio de Janeiro. In his 1999 autobiography, Roger Black said of Harris: "He was without doubt the most talented athlete I've ever trained with. ... The irony of the whole thing was, cocaine was not making him a better athlete, it was making him worse." Later life By his own admission, Harris began using cocaine during his disappointment at missing out on the 1988 Olympics and relapsed after missing a medal in 1991. After his 1992 doping ban he lost his shoe deal and had to sell his house in Los Angeles. In the decade after his 1996 ban he experienced periods of serious addiction and homelessness. By 2008 he was clean and working at the Midnight Mission homeless shelter where he had previously been a client. Harris later worked as a track coach at various high schools. He had helped Perris High School boys' track team in 2001 to their first League Championship since his own time as a student there. Harris was inducted into the Drake Relays Hall of Fame in 1995, the Iowa State Hall of Fame in 2000, and the Iowa Sports Hall of Fame in 2005. In 2016, Crossing the Line, a documentary film about his life, was shown at film festivals. References External links Danny Harris at USA Track & Field 1965 births Living people African-American male track and field athletes American male hurdlers American sportspeople in doping cases Athletes (track and field) at the 1984 Summer Olympics Doping cases in athletics Homeless people Iowa State Cyclones men's track and field athletes Medalists at the 1984 Summer Olympics Olympic silver medalists for the United States in track and field World Athletics Championships athletes for the United States World Athletics Championships medalists People from Perris, California Sportspeople from Riverside County, California Sportspeople from Torrance, California Track and field athletes from California 21st-century African-American people 20th-century African-American sportspeople