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Johnson to return Olympic relay gold medal
U.S. multiple Olympic gold medallist Michael Johnson participates in the PRO-Am of the Qatar Masters Golf Tournament in Doha, January 23, 2008.
Credit: Reuters/Fadi Al-Assaad
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LONDON (Reuters) - Five-times Olympic champion Michael Johnson will return his final gold medal won in the 2000 Sydney Games 4x400 meters relay after a team mate admitted taking drugs.
Antonio Pettigrew testified at the trial of coach Trevor Graham that he had taken banned drugs since the 1996 U.S. trials. His confession followed drugs bans on Alvin and Calvin Harrison and Jerome Young who were also members of the victorious U.S. team.
"I know that the medal was not fairly won and that it is dirty," Johnson said in a column published in The Daily Telegraph on Tuesday.
"So difficult as it is, I will be returning it to the International Olympic Committee because I don't want it. I feel cheated, betrayed and let down."
Graham was convicted last Thursday on one count of lying to federal agents investigating the BALCO laboratory.
(Writing by John Mehaffey; Editing by Ed Osmond)
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