The King
December 2nd, 2004, 04:16 AM
Gold medal taken from U.S. relay team
Mon, Nov. 29, 2004
The United States was stripped of its 1,600-meter relay gold medal from the 2003 world championships because of a second doping violation by Calvin
Harrison.
http://s.tf1.fr/mmdia/101/101/1/313001-101-005.jpg
Harrison
The gold instead goes to France, with Jamaica getting the silver and the Bahamas the bronze, the world governing body of track and field said Sunday in Monte Carlo, Monaco.
Harrison was found guilty of using the stimulant modafinil at the U.S.
championships in June 2003. He had contended that modafinil wasn't specifically mentioned on the official list of banned substances at the time.
Harrison had a chance to appeal the ruling, but the International Association of Athletics Federations said he is too late.
"The deadline has passed and that means there is a new result in the relay
final," IAAF spokesman Nick Davies said Sunday.
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 ["French"] runners Leslie Djhone, Naman Keita, Stephane Diagana and Marc Raquil.
http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/sports/10291775.htm?1c
Mon, Nov. 29, 2004
The United States was stripped of its 1,600-meter relay gold medal from the 2003 world championships because of a second doping violation by Calvin
Harrison.
http://s.tf1.fr/mmdia/101/101/1/313001-101-005.jpg
Harrison
The gold instead goes to France, with Jamaica getting the silver and the Bahamas the bronze, the world governing body of track and field said Sunday in Monte Carlo, Monaco.
Harrison was found guilty of using the stimulant modafinil at the U.S.
championships in June 2003. He had contended that modafinil wasn't specifically mentioned on the official list of banned substances at the time.
Harrison had a chance to appeal the ruling, but the International Association of Athletics Federations said he is too late.
"The deadline has passed and that means there is a new result in the relay
final," IAAF spokesman Nick Davies said Sunday.
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 ["French"] runners Leslie Djhone, Naman Keita, Stephane Diagana and Marc Raquil.
http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/sports/10291775.htm?1c