BARCELONA ’92 OLYMPICS / DAY 7 : SUMMER GAMES SPOTLIGHT : LIVINGSTON GOES OVERBOARD ON BEN

Lady Di, Charles, Fergie and Andy were swept off the front pages of the London tabloids Friday by the news that three British athletes had been sent home from the Olympics because they tested positive for steroids.

The newspapers had a particularly good time with sprinter Jason Livingston, who has so modeled his career after Canadian Ben Johnson that he is known as “Baby Ben.”

The newspaper Today ran a front-page picture of Livingston in his bedroom, surrounded by pictures of Johnson.

The headline: “He always wanted to be like Ben Johnson. Yesterday he got his wish and shamed us all.”

Another headline that ran across the top of Pages 2 and 3 revealed: “Pill bottles were stacked in his aunty’s flat, two large ones hidden at the back.”

Livington also made the front page of the Daily Mirror, under the headline: “SHAME ON YOU.”

The Daily Mirror called it “Britain’s darkest day in the history of the Olympics.”

Even the more dignified Times of London called it, “The biggest blow to Britain’s reputation in the 96 years of modern Olympic Games.”

Of course, it was hardly possible for the newspapers to leave the Royal Family entirely out of the controversy.

The Mirror reported that Princess Anne, a member of the International Olympic Committee, was “calm but saddened” by the news.

This a daily roundup of Olympic-related items from reporters in Barcelona from the Los Angeles Times, Newsday, Baltimore Sun and Hartford Courant, all Times-Mirror newspapers.