Young stripped of 1,600m relay gold medal from '04

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http://sports.espn.go.com/oly/news/story?id=2205266

LAUSANNE, Switzerland -- Sprinter Jerome Young was formally stripped of his relay gold medal from the 2000 Olympics on Thursday for a positive doping test a year before the games.

Young was a member of the winning U.S. 1,600-meter relay squad in Sydney. He ran in the preliminaries but not the final. Michael Johnson ran the anchor leg for the fifth and final gold medal of his Olympic career.


The International Association of Athletics Federations said Young should have received a two-year ban and been ineligible for Sydney. The IAAF also said the entire U.S. team should be disqualified. In addition to Young and Johnson, the team featured Antonio Pettigrew, Angelo Taylor and twins Alvin and Calvin Harrison.


But the Court or Arbitration for Sport ruled in July that only Young should be stripped of the medal. The IOC executive board complied with the ruling Thursday, ordering the U.S. Olympic Committee to return Young's medal.

[northzax]

1. I think the whole team should have been stripped

sorry to say. The USOT has a bad reputation with stalling drug investigations, and if there was any real suspicion about Young going into Sydney, he never should have been allowed to run, even in the prelims. The way to stop it, if you really want to, is to punish the entire team, use peer pressure to keep people on the straight and narrow.