Olympic Games 2000

BEIJING -- The International Olympic Committee on Saturday stripped gold medals from the U.S. men's 1,600-meter relay team that competed at the 2000 Olympics in the aftermath of Antonio Pettigrew's admission that he was doping at the time. The IOC executive board disqualified the entire team, the fourth gold and sixth overall medal stripped from that U.S. track contingent in the last eight months for doping.

After admitting last week that she had lied to federal prosecutors about taking illegal performance-enhancing drugs, track star Marion Jones on Monday gave up possession of her five medals from the 2000 Sydney Olympics. Jim Scherr, United States Olympic Committee chief executive, said the USOC took possession of Jones' three gold and two bronze medals at the Austin, Texas, office of her lawyer. Scherr said the medals would be returned to the International Olympic Committee.

The international track federation's council on Friday recommended that members of the 2000 U.S. Olympic relay teams on which Marion Jones competed be stripped of their medals. Jones returned her three individual medals after admitting last month she had used banned anabolic steroids before the Sydney Olympics. She also won a gold on the 1,600-meter relay and a bronze on the 400 relay.

In an apparent attempt to hasten the resolution it favors, the International Olympic Committee has established a relatively tight deadline for the next step involving removal of medals for the 2000 Olympic relays that included confessed doper Marion Jones. Within hours of saying the fate of the other eight runners' medals would depend on action by the U.S. Olympic Committee, the IOC pushed the USOC to deal with the case quickly. In a letter dated Dec.

Sprinter Jerome Young's positive test for steroids in 1999 will not cost the entire U.S. 1,600-meter relay team its gold medals from the 2000 Sydney Games, an international arbitration panel ruled Thursday in a decision that saves the fifth and final gold medal of Michael Johnson's Olympic career.

Jerome Young, the U.S. sprinter who ran in the 2000 Sydney Olympics one year after he secretly had tested positive for a banned steroid, was ordered Thursday by the International Olympic Committee to surrender his gold medal. His agent said no. Vowing legal action against the IOC and other U.S.

Setting the stage for action that could lead to the loss of U.S. Olympic gold medals, track and field's world governing body expects to lodge a formal legal challenge to the move by a USA Track & Field panel that cleared sprinter Jerome Young to compete at the 2000 Sydney Olympics, two sources familiar with the matter said. The International Assn.

The U.S. men's 1,600-meter relay team from the 2000 Sydney Olympics, anchored by legendary sprinter Michael Johnson, should be stripped of its gold medals because Jerome Young took part in the relay after testing positive the year before for a banned steroid, track and field's worldwide governing body said Sunday. The case now moves to the International Olympic Committee for review, probably before the Aug. 13 start of the Athens Games.

Marion Jones' former husband has told authorities that she used performance-enhancing drugs during the time span when she won five medals at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, according to a source close to the case. C.J. Hunter made these statements to federal agents exploring the possibility of bringing perjury charges against individuals linked to the BALCO case, the source said.

The International Olympic Committee is expected to launch an inquiry after the Olympics, looking into a report that two female American swimmers used a banned human growth hormone shortly before the 2000 Games in Sydney. This is despite the fact nutritionist Glen Luepnitz, who was quoted in the initial story last week in the Australian newspaper the Advertiser, has denied telling the publication that the women had used the performance-enhancing drug, MediTrophin.