Full Version: US Olympians & Doping
The gold medalist in women's shot put has tested positive for banned substances. She had been caught before ('99), and her throw was 1.5m further than the second-place finisher.
U.S. forced to give up 4x400 relay gold in 2003 World Championships.
It's 2004, and a medal from the 2000 Olympics is still in question? Talk about your slow justice.
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The United States was stripped of its 1,600-meter relay gold medal from the 2003 world championships on Sunday because of Calvin Harrison's second doping violation.
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Harrison ran the opening leg of the relay final. That means the other three runners -- Tyree Washington, Derrick Brew and Jerome Young -- will lose their gold medals, too. Instead, they will go to French runners Leslie Djhone, Naman Keita, Stephane Diagana and Marc Raquil.
Young has since been banned for life by the USADA for his second doping violation in a case that could result in the American 1,600 relay team from the 2000 Sydney Olympics -- including Michael Johnson -- losing its gold medals. The Court of Arbitration for Sport in Lausanne, Switzerland, is yet to rule on that case.
"Young has since been banned for life by the USADA for his second doping violation in a case that could result in the American 1,600 relay team from the 2000 Sydney Olympics -- including Michael Johnson -- losing its gold medals."* * *
Harrison ran the opening leg of the relay final. That means the other three runners -- Tyree Washington, Derrick Brew and Jerome Young -- will lose their gold medals, too. Instead, they will go to French runners Leslie Djhone, Naman Keita, Stephane Diagana and Marc Raquil.
Young has since been banned for life by the USADA for his second doping violation in a case that could result in the American 1,600 relay team from the 2000 Sydney Olympics -- including Michael Johnson -- losing its gold medals. The Court of Arbitration for Sport in Lausanne, Switzerland, is yet to rule on that case.
It's 2004, and a medal from the 2000 Olympics is still in question? Talk about your slow justice.
Another American athlete banned for steroids.
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American sprinter Michelle Collins was suspended for eight years and must forfeit her 2003 world 200-meter indoor title for a doping violation linked to the the San Francisco laboratory that has the International Olympic Committee investigating Marion Jones.
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Track and field athletes sanctioned thus far in the BALCO scandal:
Michelle Collins eight years
Alvin Harrison four years
Regina Jacobs four years
Calvin Harrison two years
Dwain Chambers two years
Kelli White two years
Kevin Toth two years
John McEwen two years
Melissa Price two years
Chryste Gaines public warning
Sandra Glover public warning
Chris Phillips public warning
Eric Thomas public warning
Source: U.S. Anti-Doping Agency
Michelle Collins eight years
Alvin Harrison four years
Regina Jacobs four years
Calvin Harrison two years
Dwain Chambers two years
Kelli White two years
Kevin Toth two years
John McEwen two years
Melissa Price two years
Chryste Gaines public warning
Sandra Glover public warning
Chris Phillips public warning
Eric Thomas public warning
Source: U.S. Anti-Doping Agency
Despite competing with a team of cheaters, Michael Johnson may be able to keep his gold medal.
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Five-time Olympic champion Michael Johnson can keep the gold medal he won as a member of the American 4x400-metre relay team at the Sydney 2000 Games following a Court of Arbitration for Sport ruling Thursday.
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The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) had asked for the whole team of Johnson, Young, Antonio Pettigrew and twins Calvin and Alvin Harrison to have their medals taken away. However, CAS recommended only Young should be stripped of his medal.
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Young is currently serving a lifetime ban from track and field competition after testing positive in 2004 for the banned blood-boosting substance erythropoietin (EPO).
Both Harrison brothers are currently serving drug suspensions.
Alvin Harrison was slapped with a four-year doping violation last October as part of the investigation into the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative (BALCO). Calvin Harrison is currently under a two-year suspension for a positive drug test also linked to BALCO.
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The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) had asked for the whole team of Johnson, Young, Antonio Pettigrew and twins Calvin and Alvin Harrison to have their medals taken away. However, CAS recommended only Young should be stripped of his medal.
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Young is currently serving a lifetime ban from track and field competition after testing positive in 2004 for the banned blood-boosting substance erythropoietin (EPO).
Both Harrison brothers are currently serving drug suspensions.
Alvin Harrison was slapped with a four-year doping violation last October as part of the investigation into the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative (BALCO). Calvin Harrison is currently under a two-year suspension for a positive drug test also linked to BALCO.
The IOC has ordered US sprinter Jerome Young to return the gold medal he won as part of the 1600 relay team in Sydney in 2000. One year before the Olympics, Young tested positive for a banned steroid. Young's attorney, Morris Chrobotek (who represented Ben Johnson,) promises legal action.
~Adam
~Adam
This is so ridiculous! You can't disqualify part of a relay team! Either the team's out or it isn't - and if one of them was on performance enhancing drugs, then they're out. Finish. It's rough on the rest of them, but it's the rules, and the only way. I have to wonder whether the IOC would be ducking the job like this if Michael Johnson's medal count wasn't an issue.
I think the Harrisons' suspensions were for stuff that happened after 2000, so it doesn't matter that they were on the relay team (correct me if I'm wrong). As for whether the whole team should be stripped of their medals because of Young, I can see the argument both ways. Rules are rules. On the other hand, it's nice to see an organization using some common sense in applying those rules. Young only ran in preliminary rounds (or round). The U.S. won the final without him. They could have, and would have, qualified for the finals without him running a preliminary leg. Therefore, it seems unjust to punish the whole team because a largely irrelevant member was doping.
As a comparison, say a World Cup soccer team was later found to have used an ineligible player for a few minutes in a pre-cup qualifying match (a match that was part of the qualifying process, but one they didn't need to win in order to qualify for the World Cup). Would you boot the entire team from the World Cup, even though the offending player really didn't contribute at all, or would you let them stay and boot the offending player?
As a comparison, say a World Cup soccer team was later found to have used an ineligible player for a few minutes in a pre-cup qualifying match (a match that was part of the qualifying process, but one they didn't need to win in order to qualify for the World Cup). Would you boot the entire team from the World Cup, even though the offending player really didn't contribute at all, or would you let them stay and boot the offending player?
I don't think the World Cup analogy holds water. The early rounds of that are a round-robin, the relay is a knock-out. If Young is disqualified, in effect, he didn't run, so the US ran a 3x400 and didn't win their semi. The whole team is disqualified if only one member goes out of lane or one handover is outside the box, so I don't see any difference if one member is disqualified for drug violations.
BUT...
I didn't know the violations happened after the Olympics. I'm pretty sure there's no legal way to disqualify someone for something they haven't done yet! That makes the whole thing even more loony that I thought it was!
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I didn't know the violations happened after the Olympics. I'm pretty sure there's no legal way to disqualify someone for something they haven't done yet! That makes the whole thing even more loony that I thought it was!
Montgomery retires in wake of 2-year doping ban
One-time world's fastest man has records wiped off the books.
One-time world's fastest man has records wiped off the books.
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Former world 100-meters record holder Tim Montgomery has announced his retirement, one day after receiving a two-year doping ban from the Court of Arbitration for Sport.
\"I'm done. I have retired,\" Montgomery told Reuters on Wednesday in a telephone call from his residence in Hampton, Va.
Montgomery also confirmed he had split up with his partner Marion Jones, the triple Olympic champion from the 2000 Sydney Games.
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Montgomery and fellow U.S. sprinter Chryste Gaines were each banned for two years on Tuesday after CAS accepted evidence the two had taken the designer steroid THG that is at the center of the BALCO doping scandal.
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Montgomery's mark of 9.78 seconds -- later broken by Jamaica's Asafa Powell, who did it in 9.77 seconds -- was wiped off the books by the Court of Arbitration for Sport, which banned Montgomery and fellow U.S. sprinter Chryste Gaines for using prohibited substances.
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All of Montgomery's performances since March 31, 2001, were canceled, including his 100-meter silver medal and 400 relay gold from the 2001 world championships. Gaines' results and prizes since Nov. 30, 2003, also were annulled.
USA Track & Field said it would recognize Maurice Greene's previous 100 record of 9.79 seconds -- set in 1999 -- as the U.S. mark.
\"I'm done. I have retired,\" Montgomery told Reuters on Wednesday in a telephone call from his residence in Hampton, Va.
Montgomery also confirmed he had split up with his partner Marion Jones, the triple Olympic champion from the 2000 Sydney Games.
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Montgomery and fellow U.S. sprinter Chryste Gaines were each banned for two years on Tuesday after CAS accepted evidence the two had taken the designer steroid THG that is at the center of the BALCO doping scandal.
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Montgomery's mark of 9.78 seconds -- later broken by Jamaica's Asafa Powell, who did it in 9.77 seconds -- was wiped off the books by the Court of Arbitration for Sport, which banned Montgomery and fellow U.S. sprinter Chryste Gaines for using prohibited substances.
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All of Montgomery's performances since March 31, 2001, were canceled, including his 100-meter silver medal and 400 relay gold from the 2001 world championships. Gaines' results and prizes since Nov. 30, 2003, also were annulled.
USA Track & Field said it would recognize Maurice Greene's previous 100 record of 9.79 seconds -- set in 1999 -- as the U.S. mark.
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\"I'm done. I have retired,\" Montgomery told Reuters on Wednesday in a telephone call from his residence in Hampton, Va.
Well, good for you! Now go down to the corner and wait for the parade to celebrate your exemplary career!(insert sound of crickets chirping)
I'm troubled by the way the Montgomery 2-year suspension came about. There is no direct evidence (not even a positive drug test) against him. There is a lot of circumstantial evidence--notes on a calendar, the hearsay testimony of someone who heard someone else say that Montgomery told BALCO trainers that the "clear is making me tighten up."
It doesn't seem right & I can only assume the Court of Arbitration for Sport have to use such tertiary evidence because their tests are always going to be a step behind the cheaters. Of course, at this point, I wouldn't want to be Montgomery's girlfriend and fellow BALCO customer, Marian Jones!!
~Adam
It doesn't seem right & I can only assume the Court of Arbitration for Sport have to use such tertiary evidence because their tests are always going to be a step behind the cheaters. Of course, at this point, I wouldn't want to be Montgomery's girlfriend and fellow BALCO customer, Marian Jones!!
~Adam
Given that even U.S. track and field have negated his records, one would have to presume the evidence was persuasive. No one wants to defend Montgomery or listen to his denials anymore. As JiP says: Go away!
I'm sure the evidence was compelling--but it was all circumstantial. Can you inamgine any other sport suspending a player without said player failing a drug test?
~Adam
~Adam
Poor Marion Jones. Literally. The former world's fastest woman is broke!
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(AP) Seven years after winning a women's record five Olympic track and field medals and snagging multimillion-dollar endorsement deals, Marion Jones is broke.
The sprinter is heavily in debt, fighting off court judgments and down to a bank balance of about $2,000, according to recent court records reviewed by the Los Angeles Times.
Last year a bank foreclosed on her $2.5-million mansion in an area of Chapel Hill, N.C., where Michael Jordan was a neighbor. She was also forced to sell two other properties, including her mother's house, to raise money.
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Legal bills have plagued Jones since 2003, when suspicions of drug use emerged and she was linked to the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative (BALCO) after a federal raid. Jones retained attorneys for her BALCO grand jury testimony, for negotiations with the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency in her fight to avoid being banned from competition, for a defamation lawsuit she filed against BALCO founder Victor Conte, who accused her of taking performance-enhancing drugs, and for taking on Pfaff in her breach-of-contract suit.
Last year, a Jones urine sample tested positive for the performance-enhancing drug EPO. Jones immediately quit a European track tour and returned to the United States. Although she was cleared when a backup sample tested negative, she missed at least five major international meets, forfeiting an estimated $300,000 in appearance and performance fees.
In her prime, Jones was one of track's first female millionaires, typically earning between $70,000 and $80,000 a race, plus at least another $1 million from race bonuses and endorsement deals.
The sprinter is heavily in debt, fighting off court judgments and down to a bank balance of about $2,000, according to recent court records reviewed by the Los Angeles Times.
Last year a bank foreclosed on her $2.5-million mansion in an area of Chapel Hill, N.C., where Michael Jordan was a neighbor. She was also forced to sell two other properties, including her mother's house, to raise money.
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Legal bills have plagued Jones since 2003, when suspicions of drug use emerged and she was linked to the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative (BALCO) after a federal raid. Jones retained attorneys for her BALCO grand jury testimony, for negotiations with the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency in her fight to avoid being banned from competition, for a defamation lawsuit she filed against BALCO founder Victor Conte, who accused her of taking performance-enhancing drugs, and for taking on Pfaff in her breach-of-contract suit.
Last year, a Jones urine sample tested positive for the performance-enhancing drug EPO. Jones immediately quit a European track tour and returned to the United States. Although she was cleared when a backup sample tested negative, she missed at least five major international meets, forfeiting an estimated $300,000 in appearance and performance fees.
In her prime, Jones was one of track's first female millionaires, typically earning between $70,000 and $80,000 a race, plus at least another $1 million from race bonuses and endorsement deals.
Washington Post: Marion Jones admits to steroid use
After all those denials.... the truth finally comes out! Is she going to give back those medals?
After all those denials.... the truth finally comes out! Is she going to give back those medals?
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Track star Marion Jones has acknowledged using steroids as she prepared for the 2000 Summer Games in Sydney and plans to plead guilty tomorrow in New York to two counts of lying to federal agents about her drug use and an unrelated financial matter, according to a letter Jones sent to close family and friends.
Jones, who won five medals at the Sydney Olympics, said she took the steroid known as "the clear" for two years beginning in 1999, according to the letter, which was read to The Washington Post by a person who had been given a copy. A person familiar with Jones's legal situation who requested anonymity confirmed the relevant facts that were described in the letter.
Jones said her former coach, Trevor Graham, gave her the substance, telling her it was the nutritional supplement flaxseed oil and saying she should take it by putting two drops under her tongue. Graham, contacted by telephone today, said he had no comment.
Jones's admissions could cost her the three gold and two bronze medals she won in Sydney.
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In the past, Jones has vehemently denied using steroids or any performance-enhancing drugs.
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The head of Balco, Victor Conte, has repeatedly and publicly accused Jones of using drugs.
Jones, who won five medals at the Sydney Olympics, said she took the steroid known as "the clear" for two years beginning in 1999, according to the letter, which was read to The Washington Post by a person who had been given a copy. A person familiar with Jones's legal situation who requested anonymity confirmed the relevant facts that were described in the letter.
Jones said her former coach, Trevor Graham, gave her the substance, telling her it was the nutritional supplement flaxseed oil and saying she should take it by putting two drops under her tongue. Graham, contacted by telephone today, said he had no comment.
Jones's admissions could cost her the three gold and two bronze medals she won in Sydney.
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In the past, Jones has vehemently denied using steroids or any performance-enhancing drugs.
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The head of Balco, Victor Conte, has repeatedly and publicly accused Jones of using drugs.
This is worse than Ben Johnson in Seoul.
And having to forfeit all that hardware.
What a shame.
TRL
I always liked her...admired her abilities, but never believed her; it always seemed like she was lying. It's really sad for the sport...this combined with so many other doping scandals continues to make it difficult for kids to look up to sports stars. Perhaps they never should have, but it's sad. Sports stars, rappers and rockers, actwhores, etc..aren't meant to be role models, parents are...
Interesting situation. I'm sure that those who abhor the state of ethics in the world of sports, and I am one to an extent, will start to pile on about why she didn't "come clean" earlier. But she is certainly not the only one involved with BALCO.
Somehow I don't expect to see the same performance from the many other suspected T&F stars, much less the highly paid baseball stars not subject to international standards.
But then there are other sports like bicycling that are held to international standards where you still have not seen a stampede to make public displays of mea culpa when their salaries and egos allow them to put off the inevitable inevitably.
Jones was wrong. She admitted it publicly. She apologized. She has shown a lot of balls.
Steroids are shrinking the balls of athletes both literally and figuritavely throughout our sports-mad culture.
Somehow I don't expect to see the same performance from the many other suspected T&F stars, much less the highly paid baseball stars not subject to international standards.
But then there are other sports like bicycling that are held to international standards where you still have not seen a stampede to make public displays of mea culpa when their salaries and egos allow them to put off the inevitable inevitably.
Jones was wrong. She admitted it publicly. She apologized. She has shown a lot of balls.
Steroids are shrinking the balls of athletes both literally and figuritavely throughout our sports-mad culture.
I find it sad that while Marion Jones (and other cheaters) stood on the podiums, kissed their gold medals, and shed those tears of happiness as their country's anthem played, the reall winners had to console themselves outside of the spotlight, without the fame, without the endorsement contracts... and all because they didn't cheat to win. How can they be paid back? Marion Jones can give back the medals, but she can't give her fame or money (she's broke, anyways) to the women who deserve it.
So the Greek sprinter who faked a motorcycle accident to avoid a drug test will get one of the gold medals, right? Now that's justice.
I guess I should throw away all my Olympic books, since they're obsolete with errors as to who won what. And the medal standings will need to be corrected and such.
Gold medalist and former world record holder Justin Gatlin banned for Beijing Olympics.
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An arbitration panel, in a 53-page ruling released Tuesday, reduced the 25-year-old sprinter's potential eight-year ban to four. With the ban set to expire May 24, 2010, it means Gatlin would be on the sidelines for the Beijing Olympics in August.
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Gatlin, who held himself up as a role model for clean competition before his positive test, has said he doesn't know how steroids got into his system before the April 2006 test.
Gatlin accused a disgruntled massage therapist of rubbing a steroid cream on him to trigger the positive test
, but the massage therapist has repeatedly denied the allegations.
The panel rejected that defense and noted Gatlin also acknowledged receiving an injection of what was purported to be vitamin B-12 from an assistant coach before the Kansas meet.
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Gatlin, who held himself up as a role model for clean competition before his positive test, has said he doesn't know how steroids got into his system before the April 2006 test.
Gatlin accused a disgruntled massage therapist of rubbing a steroid cream on him to trigger the positive test
, but the massage therapist has repeatedly denied the allegations.The panel rejected that defense and noted Gatlin also acknowledged receiving an injection of what was purported to be vitamin B-12 from an assistant coach before the Kansas meet.
Marion Jones was sentenced to 6 months in prison for lying about her steroid use and bank fraud.
Yeah she's so concerned about her children that she pumped steroids into her system. God only knows what they do to any children you may have. And she sets a fine example for these kids she cares so much about by lying to a grand jury and gets herself involved in defrauding a bank. Maybethe kids will have some better role model during the six months she's away.
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/more...g.ap/index.html
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Marion Jones was sentenced Friday to six months in prison for lying about using steroids and a check-fraud scam, despite beseeching the judge that she not be separated from her two young children "even for a short period of time."
"I ask you to be as merciful as a human being can be," said Jones, who cried on her husband's shoulder after she was sentenced.
"I ask you to be as merciful as a human being can be," said Jones, who cried on her husband's shoulder after she was sentenced.
Yeah she's so concerned about her children that she pumped steroids into her system. God only knows what they do to any children you may have. And she sets a fine example for these kids she cares so much about by lying to a grand jury and gets herself involved in defrauding a bank. Maybethe kids will have some better role model during the six months she's away.
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/more...g.ap/index.html
Well bravo for Jones. She, after all this time, came clean and is now taking her medicine. Obviously I don't agree with what she did, but glad she came clean. A good role model in the sense she turned around and admitted her mistakes.
HEAR THAT BASEBALL PLAYERS!!! Hello Bonds, Clemens. Be a man like Jones.
HEAR THAT BASEBALL PLAYERS!!! Hello Bonds, Clemens. Be a man like Jones.
QUOTE(Baxion @ Jan 12 2008, 06:57 AM) 
HEAR THAT BASEBALL PLAYERS!!! Hello Bonds, Clemens. Be a man like Jones.
Yes, be a man like Marion.
I feel a little sorry about her being separated from her kids but I agree that she had to serve some time. This wasn't just steriod use, it was lying about it, plus the check-fraud scam. Had she come clean right from the beginning she could have avoided this.
We'll see if Clemens decides to be honest when he testifies under oath to Congress. It may already be too late for Bonds.
I agree that Marion deserves her punishment, but it disturbs me that in sports like baseball the chances that any awards will be taken away are slim or none, even if a player admits to steriod use after he leaves the game. Is there a difference between an athlete who gives back Olympic medals or one who gives back a Tour de France award from say a Cy Young or homerun title winner? An asterisk next to a name is not quite the same as taking an award away.
Marion began her prison sentence yesterday. Hopefully Roger and Barry will be following you soon.
http://sports.espn.go.com/oly/trackandfiel...tory?id=3282477
http://sports.espn.go.com/oly/trackandfiel...tory?id=3282477
QUOTE(George Twins fan @ Mar 8 2008, 08:39 AM)
Marion began her prison sentence yesterday. Hopefully Roger and Barry will be following you soon.
http://sports.espn.go.com/oly/trackandfiel...tory?id=3282477
Just think of the team that prison'll have: SP Roger Clemens, DH Barry Bonds, pinch runner Marion Jones.
Marion Jones's teammates to lose their medals. Meanwhile her 100m gold medal is in question.
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The International Olympic Committee executive board disqualified and stripped the medals from the athletes who won gold with Jones in the 1,600-meter relay and bronze in the 400-meter relay (in the 2000 Sydney Olympics).
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There is strong reluctance among IOC officials to award Jones' 100-meter gold to Greek sprinter Katerina Thanou, who was at the center of a major scandal four years later in Athens. She and fellow Greek sprinter Kostas Kenteris failed to show for pre-games drug checks and were hospitalized after claiming they were injured in a motorcycle crash on the way to the tests.
Thanou and Kenteris missed the games and were later banned for two years.
One option under consideration by IOC officials is leaving the gold medal spot vacant.
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There is strong reluctance among IOC officials to award Jones' 100-meter gold to Greek sprinter Katerina Thanou, who was at the center of a major scandal four years later in Athens. She and fellow Greek sprinter Kostas Kenteris failed to show for pre-games drug checks and were hospitalized after claiming they were injured in a motorcycle crash on the way to the tests.
Thanou and Kenteris missed the games and were later banned for two years.
One option under consideration by IOC officials is leaving the gold medal spot vacant.
American swimmer Jessica Hardy, an Olympic qualifier in multiple events, has been disqualified after testing positive for a banned substance and will not be in Beijing.
I read this on SI.com and it sucks!
More gold medals stripped from 2000 games:
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The International Olympic Committee stripped gold medals Saturday from the U.S. men's 1,600-meter relay team that competed at the 2000 Olympics in the aftermath of Antonio Pettigrew's admission that he was doping at the time.
The IOC executive board disqualified the entire team, the fourth gold and sixth overall medal stripped from that U.S. track contingent in the past eight months for doping.
Three gold and two bronze were previously removed after Marion Jones confessed to using performance-enhancing drugs.
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Five of Pettigrew's teammates also lose their medals: Michael Johnson and twins Alvin and Calvin Harrison ran in the final; Jerome Young and Angelo Taylor ran in the preliminaries.
It was Johnson's fifth gold medal of his stellar career. He has already said he was giving it back because he felt "cheated, betrayed and let down" by Pettigrew's testimony. Johnson still holds world records in the 200 and 400 meters.
Three of the four runners from the relay final have been tainted by drugs.
Alvin Harrison accepted a four-year ban in 2004 after admitting he used performance-enhancers. Calvin Harrison tested positive for a banned stimulant in 2003 and was suspended for two years. Young was banned for life for doping violations.
The IOC executive board disqualified the entire team, the fourth gold and sixth overall medal stripped from that U.S. track contingent in the past eight months for doping.
Three gold and two bronze were previously removed after Marion Jones confessed to using performance-enhancing drugs.
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Five of Pettigrew's teammates also lose their medals: Michael Johnson and twins Alvin and Calvin Harrison ran in the final; Jerome Young and Angelo Taylor ran in the preliminaries.
It was Johnson's fifth gold medal of his stellar career. He has already said he was giving it back because he felt "cheated, betrayed and let down" by Pettigrew's testimony. Johnson still holds world records in the 200 and 400 meters.
Three of the four runners from the relay final have been tainted by drugs.
Alvin Harrison accepted a four-year ban in 2004 after admitting he used performance-enhancers. Calvin Harrison tested positive for a banned stimulant in 2003 and was suspended for two years. Young was banned for life for doping violations.
It's bad enough when an individual cheats. But those who caused their teammates to lose their medals are especially despicable.
400m champ LaShawn Merritt faces a 2-year suspension for a banned substance which he says came from a "male enhancement" product. 
The product in question is supposedly ExtenZe. (Gives you a big d-ck AND makes you run fast!
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The product in question is supposedly ExtenZe. (Gives you a big d-ck AND makes you run fast!
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Reigning Olympic and world 400-meter track champion LaShawn Merritt faces a two-year suspension for what he said was use of an over-the-counter male enhancement product that he did not know contained the banned substance DHEA.
Merritt, 23, of Portsmouth, Va., was found positive for DHEA, a steroid, in three successive out-of-competition tests from October through January.
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Merritt... won (the) 4 x 400-meter relay gold medals at the 2008 Olympics and both the 2007 and 2009 world championships
Merritt, 23, of Portsmouth, Va., was found positive for DHEA, a steroid, in three successive out-of-competition tests from October through January.
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Merritt... won (the) 4 x 400-meter relay gold medals at the 2008 Olympics and both the 2007 and 2009 world championships
All of those steroids and body part enhancements have different bad side effects. I think Merritt will surely have something that he got from the enhancement product. Extenze
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