AP: IAAF Recommends Stripping U.S. Olympic Relay Gold

[stopbush]

We lie about going to war, we cheat to win athletic competitions. No wonder we're the envy of the world!! What do we tell the children?

IAAF Recommends Stripping U.S. Relay (2000) Gold

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By AIDAN LEWIS, Associated Press Writer

GROSSETO, Italy - The International Association of Athletics Federations said Sunday that the U.S. 1,600-meter relay team, led by Michael Johnson (news - web sites), should be stripped of its 2000 Olympic gold. The recommendation is tied to 400-meter world champion Jerome Young's positive doping test in 1999.

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The announcement came 2 1/2 weeks after the Swiss-based Court of Arbitration for Sport ruled that Young, who ran in the 1,600-meter relay's opening and semifinal rounds, should be stripped of his Olympic gold because of a positive doping test for the steroid nandrolone on June 26, 1999.

Young, who has denied taking a prohibited substance, was exonerated by a USA Track and Field doping appeals board on July 10, 2000.

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More than a half dozen Americans are under doping suspicion with the Olympics less than a month away. Four, including 100-meter world record-holder Tim Montgomery (news - web sites), face possible lifetime bans after being accused by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency of offenses. The four have not tested positive, but are accused based on information gathered in the criminal investigation of the Bay Area Laboratory Cooperative in Burlingame, Calif.

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[AngryAmish]

1. And why should anyone care about this?

[fdr_hst_fan]

2. Precisely-

the Olympic games have been a joke since 1936, when the IOC bowed to Hitler! And it's only a big excuse to market souvenirs and dust-collectors anyway! Who the hell NEEDS it?
:thumbsdown: :boring: :nopity:

[sendero]

3. One thing is for sure...

.... the genie of performance-enhancing drugs is out of the bottle. No amount of testing, sanctions, threats or anything else will put it back in.

People should just grow up.

[PROGRESSIVE1]

4. The only reason that this farce is allowed to exist every 4 years...

is because of the Billions of dollars made in advertsing.

We are moving beyond the old-world nationalism and xenophobia.