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Montgomery latest culprit of BALCO scandal
(Reuters)
Updated: 2005-12-14 11:03

LONDON, Dec 13 (Reuters) - Former world 100 metres record holder Tim Montgomery became on Tuesday the highest profile culprit after a U.S. federal investigation into the BALCO laboratory doping conspiracy.

The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) banned Montgomery and Chryste Gaines for two years each from June 6 this year after accepting evidence that the pair had taken the designer steroid THG (tetrahydrogestrinone).

In addition Montgomery will forfeit all his results and earnings from March 31, 2001, through to June 6 while Gaines will have her results annulled and lose her winnings from November 30, 2003, up to the same date.

CAS said those were the dates when both athletes told double world sprint champion Kelli White that they had been taking THG.

Montgomery, 30, the former partner of triple Olympic champion Marion Jones, won $100,000 alone after setting his then world record of 9.78 seconds at the 2002 Paris grand prix final.

A CAS statement on Tuesday said the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) submitted evidence that BALCO had been involved in a conspiracy to distribute undetectable performance-enhancing drugs.

Agents from the U.S. Internal Revenue Service criminal investigations unit raided the laboratory in California on September 23, 2003.

A CAS statement said the (USADA) had sought a four-year ban for Montgomery for taking part in a world-wide doping conspiracy initiated by BALCO.

"According to USADA, BALCO was involved in a conspiracy, the purpose of which was the distribution and use of doping substances and techniques that were either undetectable or difficult to detect in routine drug testing.

"BALCO is alleged to have distributed several types of doping agents to professional athletes in track and field, baseball and football.

"Among these were (THG), otherwise known as 'the clear' that could not be identified by routine anti-doping testing until 2003."
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