U.S. relay team stripped of 2000 Olympic gold medals

By doris | Published: August 2, 2008

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BEIJING, China (AP) — The International Olympic Committee has stripped gold medals from the U.S. men’s 1,600-meter relay team that competed at the 2000 Games in the aftermath of Antonio Pettigrew’s admission that he was doping at the time.
Antonio Pettigrew’s doping confession has cost his U.S. relay teammates a gold medal.

Antonio Pettigrew’s doping confession has cost his U.S. relay teammates a gold medal.

The IOC executive board disqualified the entire team, the fourth gold and sixth overall medal stripped from that U.S. track contingent in the past eight months for doping.

Three gold and two bronze were previously removed after Marion Jones confessed to using performance-enhancing drugs.

Saturday’s decision was almost a formality after Pettigrew gave up his gold medal in June. He admitted in court in May that he used EPO and human growth hormone from 1997 to 2003.

Five of Pettigrew’s teammates also lost their medals: Michael Johnson and twins Alvin and Calvin Harrison ran in the final, while Jerome Young and Angelo Taylor featured in the preliminaries.

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