Forgive me for being a little off topic . You should read this about gold medalists with positive results that have been allowed to keep the medals .
It is an eternal battle of the drugs versus the electronic and chemical detectors . As soon as a new drug is used , new electronic detectors come out for the purpose of discovering it . Would be a be a better idea to actually decriminalaze all of the drugs ? Then there is the festival of Jingoism with national anthems and most competitors working for the Army , Police , Air force , Navy etc ,etc. the initial Olympic spirit is gone out of the window with the sponsors , the national anthem and the military.
http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/275987SNIP
"Carl Lewis's positive test covered up
By Jacquelin Magnay
April 18 2003
http ://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/04/17/1050172709693.html
There were more than 100 positive tests for Black US athletes who won 19 Olympic medals in 2000, yet they kept their medals. What about Olympics 2012? Oh, yes we will learn about that in 12 years!
Olympic Black legend Carl Lewis is among more than 100 American athletes involved in a cover-up of drug use, documents reveal.
Lewis and two of his training partners all took the same three types of banned stimulants and were caught at the 1988 US Olympic trials, according to the documents released by a disgruntled former senior US anti-doping official, Dr Wade Exum.
But on appeal to their national Olympic committee, all were cleared of inadvertent doping. Two months later, at the Seoul Olympics, Lewis finished second in the 100 metres sprint. But when Canadian Ben Johnson failed his Olympic drug test, Lewis was awarded the 100m gold.
Lewis also won the Olympic long jump - as part of his career tally of nine Olympic gold medals - and his training partner, Joe De Loach, won the 200m in Seoul.
Lewis's lawyer, Martin Singer, has responded to the revelations by saying his client had taken only a herbal remedy.
"Carl did nothing wrong," Mr Singer told The Orange County Register. "There was never intent."
The latest documents show Lewis tested positive for the banned stimulants found in cold medications: pseudoephedrine, ephedrine and phenylpropanolamine. "
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