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USADA charges Montgomery with doping offence
The 100 meters world record holder Tim Montgomery was officially charged by the US Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) of committing a doping offence on Wednesday and could now be banned from competing at the Athens Olympics. "The USADA letter does not allege that Tim Montgomery took any banned substances," the athlete's attorney Howard Jacobs said in astatement. "However, the conclusion by USADA's review board -- whose members were all chosen by USADA's CEO, Terry Madden, and is hardly an independent body -- to proceed with the adjudication process based on some vague assertion of Tim's alleged involvementwith BALCO further underscores the basic lack of fairness in this entire process. "USADA's leap to judgment on the flimsiest of so-called 'evidence' confirms
our worst suspicions -- that it is resorting to McCarthy-like tactics in its
efforts to ruin Tim's reputation." The lawyer for Michelle Collins confirmed that the former world indoor 200 meters champion had received a USADA letter charging her with a doping violation. Montgomery's partner triple Olympic champion Marion Jones is also under investigation by USADA but has not been charged with any offence. And she and Montgomery have repeatedly taking any performance-enhancing drugs. |
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