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Friday, 28 October 2005 |
Disgraced Jerome Young must give back Olympic gold
Disgraced former world 400m champion Jerome Young has been told he must
give back the Olympic relay gold medal, which he won in Sydney in 2000.
Jerome Young was subsequently revealed to have failed a drugs test
prior to the Games, and has since been banned for life after a second
positive dope test.
Earlier this year, Jerome Young insisted he was going to keep his gold medal but now
the International Olympic Committee have told him that he must hand it
back immediately.
In July, Jerome Young said: "I was their scapegoat - I am not going to
give up a medal for something I did not do."
The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) upheld an appeal by US
athletics officials this summer that the rest of the squad - including
five-times Olympic champion Michael Johnson - keep their gold medals
from the event.
Athletics' ruling body, the IAAF, had recommended to the IOC that the
American squad be stripped of their medals
Jerome Young competed in Sydney without the world knowing about his
positive 1999 test, because the American authorities had chosen not to
take any action against him and it was only three years later that the
test result came to be widely known about.
The IOC ruled that his results for the two years after the positive
test - including Sydney - be annulled.
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