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IAAF records back USOC on Lewis case
Madrid, May 17: World track and field`s anti-doping chief determined in 1988 that drug samples provided by eight American athletes at the Olympic trials that year should not be treated as positives, according to IAAF records.
Madrid, May 17: World track and field's anti-doping chief determined in 1988 that drug samples provided by eight American athletes at the Olympic trials that year should not be treated as positives, according to IAAF records.
Arne Ljungqvist, head of the sport's anti-doping commission, found that the US Olympic Committee "had wrongly announced that eight athletes had been found positive," according to minutes of the IAAF Council meeting in Seoul, South Korea, on Sept. 18-19, 1988.
Copies of the minutes were obtained yesterday by the Associated Press.
The document supports the International Association of Athletic Federation's statement last month that the USOC was right in clearing Carl Lewis and other athletes of doping violations.
According to documents released to media outlets by Dr Wade Exum, the USOC's former director for drug control, US athletes tested positive for drugs more than 100 times from 1988-2000. Only a handful were barred from competing; 19 went on to win medals.
Exum said that Lewis, a nine-time Olympic champion, tested positive three times at the 1988 Olympic trials for small amounts of banned stimulants. The USOC first disqualified Lewis, then reversed itself after he appealed, claiming inadvertent use.
The documents showed Joe Deloach and Andre Phillips also were cleared after testing positive for stimulants. Lewis, Deloach and Phillips all won gold medals at the 1988 Seoul Olympics.
Copies of the minutes were obtained yesterday by the Associated Press.
The document supports the International Association of Athletic Federation's statement last month that the USOC was right in clearing Carl Lewis and other athletes of doping violations.
According to documents released to media outlets by Dr Wade Exum, the USOC's former director for drug control, US athletes tested positive for drugs more than 100 times from 1988-2000. Only a handful were barred from competing; 19 went on to win medals.
Exum said that Lewis, a nine-time Olympic champion, tested positive three times at the 1988 Olympic trials for small amounts of banned stimulants. The USOC first disqualified Lewis, then reversed itself after he appealed, claiming inadvertent use.
The documents showed Joe Deloach and Andre Phillips also were cleared after testing positive for stimulants. Lewis, Deloach and Phillips all won gold medals at the 1988 Seoul Olympics.
Bureau Report