All Olympic Athletes Are Not Rocket Scientists
Doesn't sound like this guy was too bright. He is probably going to get stripped of his Olympic Gold medal among others for testing positive for nandrolone. Wouldn't you think that if you were a world class athelete you would have enough sense not to use drugs with a detection time of 18 months!?
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LAUSANNE, Switzerland (Reuters) - American sprinter Jerome Young was named by the International Olympic Committee (news - web sites) (IOC) on Thursday as having failed a drug test before the 2000 Olympics and could lose the relay gold medal he won three years ago.
The IOC has handed the Young case back to the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), the ruling body which has jurisdiction on doping matters in the sport outside the Olympic Games (news - web sites).
If the IAAF decides Young was ineligible to race in Sydney, the IOC will then decide what action to take, probably by the end of the year. IOC President Jacques Rogge said an athlete in such a case would "probably" be disqualified.
Young received a gold medal for the 4x400 meters relay in Sydney and won the 400 meters world title in Paris last month. Although Young did not compete in the Sydney relay finals, he ran in an early round and got a gold medal as a team member.
He was alleged by the Los Angeles Times last month to have failed a test for the steroid nandrolone before the Sydney Olympics