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of his world record in the 100m and being banned from track and field for two years.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Former world 100 meters record holder
Tim Montgomery became on Tuesday the highest profile culprit after a U.S. federal investigation into the BALCO laboratory doping conspiracy.
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The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) banned Montgomery and Chryste Gaines for two years each from June 6 this year after accepting evidence that the pair had taken the designer steroid THG (tetrahydrogestrinone).
In addition Montgomery will forfeit all his results and earnings from March 31, 2001, through to June 6 while Gaines will have her results annulled and lose her winnings from November 30, 2003, up to the same date.
CAS said those were the dates when both athletes told double world sprint champion Kelli White that they had been taking THG.
Montgomery, 30, the former partner of triple Olympic champion
Marion Jones, won $100,000 alone after setting his then world record of 9.78 seconds at the 2002 Paris grand prix final.
A CAS statement on Tuesday said the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) submitted evidence that BALCO had been involved in a conspiracy to distribute undetectable performance-enhancing drugs.
Agents from the U.S.
Internal Revenue Service criminal investigations unit raided the laboratory in California on September 23, 2003.
A CAS statement said the (USADA) had sought a four-year ban for Montgomery for taking part in a world-wide doping conspiracy initiated by BALCO.
"According to USADA, BALCO was involved in a conspiracy, the purpose of which was the distribution and use of doping substances and techniques that were either undetectable or difficult to detect in routine drug testing.
"BALCO is alleged to have distributed several types of doping agents to professional athletes in track and field, baseball and football.
"Among these were (THG), otherwise known as 'the clear' that could not be identified by routine anti-doping testing until 2003."
POUND ASTONISHMENT
The decision, which was based on legal evidence about doping rather than a positive sample, was welcomed by World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) president Dick Pound.
"We now have driven the stake through the heart of the argument that you have to have an analytical positive in order to have a doping infraction, or a confession," Pound told Reuters in a telephone interview from his Montreal office.
Pound also expressed astonishment that Montgomery had not given evidence to CAS.
"We had this extraordinary thing in which Montgomery does not bother to show up to say 'it ain't so.' He did not provide any explanation whatsoever. The panel said it was certainly entitled to draw an adverse inference that Montgomery did not show."
CAS accepted evidence from White that both athletes had admitted using THG.
Last year White was suspended for two years last year after admitting using banned drugs, including THG and the blood booster EPO (erythropoietin). She promised to co-operate with USADA to help clean up her sport.
"Having seen Ms White and heard her testimony...the members of the panel do not doubt the veracity of her evidence," CAS said.
USADA chief executive officer Terry Madden said the decision invalidated more than six years of competitive results.
"It is always a great day for clean athletes when individuals who cheat are held accountable and stripped of the rewards gained through doping," Madden said.
Lawyer Howard Jacobs, who represented Montgomery before CAS, questioned CAS's reasoning.
"I was a little disappointed in the reasoning of the decision. Basically the entire decision is based on the supposed admission to Kelli White, which there really was no admission," Jacobs told Reuters.
"I am concerned about a doping offence based on one athlete's testimony about what another athlete supposedly said. That is a dangerous precedent to set."
Thirteen track and field athletes had been sanctioned before Tuesday's announcement as a result of the BALCO scandal. White, twice Olympic 4x400 meters relay gold medallist Alvin Harrison and 2003 world indoor 200 meters champion Michelle Collins also received bans for non-analytical positives.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/14/s...l=1&adxnnlx=1134656006-/dtgAcdlv+Gus6ZHfPRrJw
Tim Montgomery, the American sprinter who held the world record for the 100-meter dash from September 2002 to last June, was suspended yesterday for two years by international sport's highest court.
Tim Montgomery's record for the 100-meter dash, which was set on Sept. 14, 2002, has been erased by a two-year suspension.
He is perhaps the highest-profile track athlete punished for using performance-enhancing drugs since Ben Johnson was stripped of an Olympic gold medal in 1988 for using stanozolol, an anabolic steroid.
Although the 30-year-old Montgomery had not failed a drug test, the Court of Arbitration for Sport, based in Lausanne, Switzerland, ruled that he had used THG, a banned steroid sometimes referred to as the clear.
The drug was unknown to testers until June 2003, when its discovery led to a grand jury investigation and later penalties for people involved with the Bay Area Laboratory Co-operative, or Balco, near San Francisco.
The court also imposed a two-year suspension on another American, Chryste Gaines, 35, a two-time Olympic medalist in the 4x100-meter relay. She and Montgomery had declined to testify before the panel.
The three lawyers who made up the court's panel said the evidence against Montgomery was "fatal," "credible and sufficient" and "strong, indeed uncontroverted."
The panel said it had relied largely on the testimony of Kelli White, an American sprinter, and on what it described as abnormal blood tests and evidence of possible masking of tests by Montgomery.
White admitted using illegal drugs and is serving a two-year suspension. Matthieu Reeb, the court's secretary general, said White testified under oath.
The court said White testified that in 2001, at a track meet in Portugal, Montgomery told her that he was using THG.
Howard Jacobs, Montgomery's lawyer until two weeks ago, took exception. He told the French news agency Agence France-Presse: "They took what she said and contorted it to say there was an admission. What she testified was that she asked him if the clear made his calves tight. White never testified that Tim told me the clear made his calves tight."
Lamine Diack, the president of the International Association of Athletics Federations, the world governing body for track, hailed the court's finding as a landmark decision.
The United States Anti-Doping Agency, which brought the case against Montgomery, sought a four-year suspension, which was cut in half by the court. Still, Terry Madden, the agency's chief executive officer, was pleased, saying, "It is always a great day for clean athletes when individuals who cheat are held accountable and stripped of the rewards gained through doping."
Craig Masback, the chief executive of USA Track and Field, said, "It is sad when any athlete makes the tragic decision to cheat because it robs other athletes of their deserved recognition and hurts our sport."
Gaines and Montgomery will be stripped of honors and prize money, going back to the dates the court determined the drug use began, March 2001 in Montgomery's case and November 2003 for Gaines.
They will also lose Olympic and world-championship medals for the period involved. Nick Davies, a spokesman for the I.A.A.F., said, "There can be no appeal."
The bans are retroactive to June 6, 2005, the first day of hearings.
Montgomery and Marion Jones, a winner of five Olympic medals in the 2000 Sydney Games, are the parents of Tim Montgomery Jr.
Balco records listed Jones as a client, and Victor Conte, who headed the Balco operation, is serving four months in prison for steroid distribution and money laundering. Conte has said Jones used performance-enhancing drugs.
Jones, like Montgomery, has often said she has never taken illegal drugs, and has never failed a drug test. The Balco grand jury also heard testimony from athletes like Barry Bonds, Jason Giambi, Gary Sheffield and Bill Romanowski. No athletes have been indicted.
Montgomery was one of the first athletes suspended by the United States Anti-Doping Agency without a positive drug test. Others previously suspended were White and the fellow sprinters Michelle Collins and Alvin Harrison.
Montgomery is a native of Gaffney, S.C., and a 1996 graduate of Norfolk State University. He won 4x100-meter medals in the 1996 (silver) and 2000 (gold) Olympics and at the 1999 and the 2001 world championships (both gold).
His world record for 100 meters, one of the glamour races of the sport, was 9.78 seconds, set on Sept. 14, 2002. He held the unofficial title of world's fastest human until Asafa Powell of Jamaica lowered the record to 9.77 on June 14.
The world record Montgomery broke was the 9.79 run by Maurice Greene in 1999, also the previous American record. Now the American record reverts to Greene.
Greene's agent, Emanuel Hudson, said, "We are obviously pleased that Maurice Greene gets his record back, but we are saddened by the fact this is a bad mark on the sport."
It will probably not be the last mark. In its ruling, the court said, "There is no reason to believe that the world of sport has seen the last of this sort" of case.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051213/ts_nm/doping_montgomery_dc
LONDON (Reuters) - Former world 100 meters record holder
Tim Montgomery became on Tuesday the highest profile culprit after a U.S. federal investigation into the BALCO laboratory doping conspiracy.
ADVERTISEMENT
[0]
The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) banned Montgomery and Chryste Gaines for two years each from June 6 this year after accepting evidence that the pair had taken the designer steroid THG (tetrahydrogestrinone).
In addition Montgomery will forfeit all his results and earnings from March 31, 2001, through to June 6 while Gaines will have her results annulled and lose her winnings from November 30, 2003, up to the same date.
CAS said those were the dates when both athletes told double world sprint champion Kelli White that they had been taking THG.
Montgomery, 30, the former partner of triple Olympic champion
Marion Jones, won $100,000 alone after setting his then world record of 9.78 seconds at the 2002 Paris grand prix final.
A CAS statement on Tuesday said the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) submitted evidence that BALCO had been involved in a conspiracy to distribute undetectable performance-enhancing drugs.
Agents from the U.S.
Internal Revenue Service criminal investigations unit raided the laboratory in California on September 23, 2003.
A CAS statement said the (USADA) had sought a four-year ban for Montgomery for taking part in a world-wide doping conspiracy initiated by BALCO.
"According to USADA, BALCO was involved in a conspiracy, the purpose of which was the distribution and use of doping substances and techniques that were either undetectable or difficult to detect in routine drug testing.
"BALCO is alleged to have distributed several types of doping agents to professional athletes in track and field, baseball and football.
"Among these were (THG), otherwise known as 'the clear' that could not be identified by routine anti-doping testing until 2003."
POUND ASTONISHMENT
The decision, which was based on legal evidence about doping rather than a positive sample, was welcomed by World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) president Dick Pound.
"We now have driven the stake through the heart of the argument that you have to have an analytical positive in order to have a doping infraction, or a confession," Pound told Reuters in a telephone interview from his Montreal office.
Pound also expressed astonishment that Montgomery had not given evidence to CAS.
"We had this extraordinary thing in which Montgomery does not bother to show up to say 'it ain't so.' He did not provide any explanation whatsoever. The panel said it was certainly entitled to draw an adverse inference that Montgomery did not show."
CAS accepted evidence from White that both athletes had admitted using THG.
Last year White was suspended for two years last year after admitting using banned drugs, including THG and the blood booster EPO (erythropoietin). She promised to co-operate with USADA to help clean up her sport.
"Having seen Ms White and heard her testimony...the members of the panel do not doubt the veracity of her evidence," CAS said.
USADA chief executive officer Terry Madden said the decision invalidated more than six years of competitive results.
"It is always a great day for clean athletes when individuals who cheat are held accountable and stripped of the rewards gained through doping," Madden said.
Lawyer Howard Jacobs, who represented Montgomery before CAS, questioned CAS's reasoning.
"I was a little disappointed in the reasoning of the decision. Basically the entire decision is based on the supposed admission to Kelli White, which there really was no admission," Jacobs told Reuters.
"I am concerned about a doping offence based on one athlete's testimony about what another athlete supposedly said. That is a dangerous precedent to set."
Thirteen track and field athletes had been sanctioned before Tuesday's announcement as a result of the BALCO scandal. White, twice Olympic 4x400 meters relay gold medallist Alvin Harrison and 2003 world indoor 200 meters champion Michelle Collins also received bans for non-analytical positives.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/14/s...l=1&adxnnlx=1134656006-/dtgAcdlv+Gus6ZHfPRrJw
Tim Montgomery, the American sprinter who held the world record for the 100-meter dash from September 2002 to last June, was suspended yesterday for two years by international sport's highest court.
Tim Montgomery's record for the 100-meter dash, which was set on Sept. 14, 2002, has been erased by a two-year suspension.
He is perhaps the highest-profile track athlete punished for using performance-enhancing drugs since Ben Johnson was stripped of an Olympic gold medal in 1988 for using stanozolol, an anabolic steroid.
Although the 30-year-old Montgomery had not failed a drug test, the Court of Arbitration for Sport, based in Lausanne, Switzerland, ruled that he had used THG, a banned steroid sometimes referred to as the clear.
The drug was unknown to testers until June 2003, when its discovery led to a grand jury investigation and later penalties for people involved with the Bay Area Laboratory Co-operative, or Balco, near San Francisco.
The court also imposed a two-year suspension on another American, Chryste Gaines, 35, a two-time Olympic medalist in the 4x100-meter relay. She and Montgomery had declined to testify before the panel.
The three lawyers who made up the court's panel said the evidence against Montgomery was "fatal," "credible and sufficient" and "strong, indeed uncontroverted."
The panel said it had relied largely on the testimony of Kelli White, an American sprinter, and on what it described as abnormal blood tests and evidence of possible masking of tests by Montgomery.
White admitted using illegal drugs and is serving a two-year suspension. Matthieu Reeb, the court's secretary general, said White testified under oath.
The court said White testified that in 2001, at a track meet in Portugal, Montgomery told her that he was using THG.
Howard Jacobs, Montgomery's lawyer until two weeks ago, took exception. He told the French news agency Agence France-Presse: "They took what she said and contorted it to say there was an admission. What she testified was that she asked him if the clear made his calves tight. White never testified that Tim told me the clear made his calves tight."
Lamine Diack, the president of the International Association of Athletics Federations, the world governing body for track, hailed the court's finding as a landmark decision.
The United States Anti-Doping Agency, which brought the case against Montgomery, sought a four-year suspension, which was cut in half by the court. Still, Terry Madden, the agency's chief executive officer, was pleased, saying, "It is always a great day for clean athletes when individuals who cheat are held accountable and stripped of the rewards gained through doping."
Craig Masback, the chief executive of USA Track and Field, said, "It is sad when any athlete makes the tragic decision to cheat because it robs other athletes of their deserved recognition and hurts our sport."
Gaines and Montgomery will be stripped of honors and prize money, going back to the dates the court determined the drug use began, March 2001 in Montgomery's case and November 2003 for Gaines.
They will also lose Olympic and world-championship medals for the period involved. Nick Davies, a spokesman for the I.A.A.F., said, "There can be no appeal."
The bans are retroactive to June 6, 2005, the first day of hearings.
Montgomery and Marion Jones, a winner of five Olympic medals in the 2000 Sydney Games, are the parents of Tim Montgomery Jr.
Balco records listed Jones as a client, and Victor Conte, who headed the Balco operation, is serving four months in prison for steroid distribution and money laundering. Conte has said Jones used performance-enhancing drugs.
Jones, like Montgomery, has often said she has never taken illegal drugs, and has never failed a drug test. The Balco grand jury also heard testimony from athletes like Barry Bonds, Jason Giambi, Gary Sheffield and Bill Romanowski. No athletes have been indicted.
Montgomery was one of the first athletes suspended by the United States Anti-Doping Agency without a positive drug test. Others previously suspended were White and the fellow sprinters Michelle Collins and Alvin Harrison.
Montgomery is a native of Gaffney, S.C., and a 1996 graduate of Norfolk State University. He won 4x100-meter medals in the 1996 (silver) and 2000 (gold) Olympics and at the 1999 and the 2001 world championships (both gold).
His world record for 100 meters, one of the glamour races of the sport, was 9.78 seconds, set on Sept. 14, 2002. He held the unofficial title of world's fastest human until Asafa Powell of Jamaica lowered the record to 9.77 on June 14.
The world record Montgomery broke was the 9.79 run by Maurice Greene in 1999, also the previous American record. Now the American record reverts to Greene.
Greene's agent, Emanuel Hudson, said, "We are obviously pleased that Maurice Greene gets his record back, but we are saddened by the fact this is a bad mark on the sport."
It will probably not be the last mark. In its ruling, the court said, "There is no reason to believe that the world of sport has seen the last of this sort" of case.
