Yes, Ballard ran 4x4 at the Seoul Olympics. He ran to his best. He was better known as a competitor on the handicaps prizemoney circuit in Australia. He was extremely successful over many years.
I think Wilosn’s beef is she thinks Olympians or sports champions at the peak of their lifetime ability weren’t getting a fraction of the coverage that some of the masters games competitors were receiving in the media.
I could care less, but my enduring memory of a conversation with one world masters champion over 400m (some years ago) was that he genuinely couldn’t understand why he was not being funded by the government as an elite athlete because “afterall, I am the world record-holder”. I was confused, I said, because all along here I was mired in my ignorance thinking that Michael Johnson was the world recordholder. More fool, me for even entertaining discussion.