Jamaica women’s 4x400 set to get silver
Published:Monday | March 15, 2010 | 7:14 PM
Jamaica women’s 4 x 400-metre relay team looks set to have their bronze medal at the 2004 Athens Olympics upgraded to silver very soon.
Six years after the US team won the gold medal, the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) has recommended that the Americans should be stripped of their medal.
The IAAF says qualifying runner Crystal Cox was involved in the BALCO doping scandal.
Cox ran in the prelims for the American team led by Sanya Richards, who ran the final along with Dee Dee Trotter, Monique Henderson and Monique Hennegan
The US Anti-Doping Agency said this year that Cox had admitted to using anabolic steroids and accepted a four-year suspension and disqualification of her results from 2001 to 2004.
Russia would now move from silver to gold.
Meanwhile, the IAAF has rejected a request from American Justin Gatlin for an early return to competition following his four-year doping ban.
Gatlin wanted to return early in the outdoor season because of \"substantial assistance\" to the IAA F in dealing with doping.
Gatlin will return on July 24.