U.S. relay team stripped of 2000 Olympic gold medals
http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/08/02/ioc....ap/index.html
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....
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 of the four runners from the relay final have been tainted by drugs....
Saturday's move came four months after the IOC stripped the gold from the U.S. women's 1,600m relay team and bronze from the women's 400m relay squad because of doping by Jones. She admitted last year that she used drugs at the time and returned her five medals, including gold in the 100m and 200m and bronze in the long jump.
I remember a time when I was proud of my country's participation in the Olympics.
I remember back when it was the "bad" countries that cheated in the Olympics.
Are we truly that insecure of our abilities that we need to cheat like this just to win?
Starting next week, every time I hear of an American winning a medal, I will have to think: honest or dishonest?
This not the way I should be thinking about my country's athletes.....but I guess we have to.
Well, at least I have my memories.
"Alvin Harrison accepted a four-year ban in 2004 after admitting he used performance-enhancers..."
A four year ban?? Why not a permanent ban for life for being a cheater?