Disgraced former Olympic track star Tim Montgomery, once dubbed "the world's fastest man," was sentenced Friday to five years in prison for dealing heroin to an informant.
"I was blind -- I never had a job in my life," Montgomery told U.S. District Judge Jerome B. Friedman in Norfolk, Va. "I did the wrong thing."
Montgomery, 33, will serve the five-year sentence after he completes a 46-month prison term for an unrelated conviction in New York.
Under an agreement with the government, he pleaded guilty in July to possession and distribution of more than 100 grams of heroin. He received the minimum term under federal sentencing guidelines.
Montgomery won an Olympic gold medal in the 400-meter relay at the 2000 Olympic Games and a silver in the same event four years earlier.
A federal judge sentenced former elite cyclist Tammy Thomas to six months of home confinement for lying to a grand jury about her steroid use.
U.S. District Court Judge Susan Illston rejected a federal prosecutor's request that she be sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison, noting the ringleaders at the center of the BALCO doping investigation received four months in prison or less.
Thomas was the first person connected to the BALCO case to go to trial. She is appealing her conviction.
Jose Canseco was held for nearly 10 hours by immigration authorities after agents said they stopped the former baseball star with a fertility drug as he returned from Mexico, his lawyer said.
Canseco was detained at San Diego's San Ysidro border crossing Thursday after agents searched his vehicle and said they found human chorionic gonadotropin, which is illegal without a prescription, said his attorney, Gregory Emerson.
Emerson declined to say if Canseco had the drug, which is banned by the World Anti-Doping Agency for use in males. The drug helps restore production of testosterone lost in steroid users. Canseco was not charged with a crime.
Helio Castroneves can leave the country for an IndyCar event this month in Australia after a federal judge agreed to modify bail conditions on tax charges the driver is facing.
HORSE RACING
Trainer Dutrow gets favorable ruling
Kentucky racing officials plan to challenge a recommendation that there's insufficient evidence to suspend Big Brown's trainer, Rick Dutrow, for violating doping rules.
