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bit contradiction for carl lewis to talk about PEDs!!!Comment
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Lewis tested positive for banned stimulants. Below are articles about it.
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An ex-USOC official says some athletes were allowed to bend the drug rules
By Tim Layden and Don Yaeger
As the USOC's director of drug control administration from 1991 to 2000, Dr. Wade Exum worked behind the curtain that separates fact from rumor in the world of drug testing. He started the job as a crusader, but he left it embittered and disillusioned. He also left with 30,000 pages of documents that he says prove that the USOC ran an ineffective testing program and encouraged the use of performance-enhancing drugs by not punishing those who tested positive.
Exum's files show that Lalas and Lewis tested positive.. Jeffrey Lowe
Exum planned to enter the documents in his racial discrimination and wrongful termination suit against the USOC, but last week the case was dismissed in federal court because of lack of evidence. Exum -- with misgivings, he says -- gave SI copies of the documents. "I never wanted to out athletes," he says. "I never wanted to name names. Can these names help settle the issue and change the system? We'll see."
Exum's papers cite more than 100 positive drug tests for U.S. athletes from 1988 to 2000. In many of these cases, he says, the athletes were not prevented from competing. Included in the documents are test results, memos or letters indicating drug positives for athletes who won 19 Olympic medals from 1984 to 2000 and at least 18 athletes who tested positive in the Olympic trials and were allowed to compete in the Games. Among the biggest names:
Carl Lewis. At the 1988 Olympic trials he tested positive three times for small amounts of banned stimulants found in cold medications: pseudoephedrine, ephedrine and phenylpropanolamine. After first disqualifying Lewis from the Olympics, the USOC accepted his appeal on the basis of inadvertent use. Lewis went on to win gold at Seoul in the 100 meters and long jump. Lewis could not be reached, but his longtime manager, Joe Douglas, said Lewis had not taken anything to enhance his performance.
Joe DeLoach. Lewis's training partner won the 200 at the '88 trials and tested positive for the same three stimulants as Lewis. He was excused for the same reason and then upset Lewis in the 200 to win gold in Seoul. DeLoach could not be reached for comment.
Andre Phillips. He tested positive for pseudoephedrine at the '88 track trials, won an appeal and beat Edwin Moses in the 400-meter hurdles in Seoul. Phillips declined to comment to SI.
Mary Joe Fernandez. The pro tennis player tested positive for pseudoephedrine before the '92 Olympics, was not disciplined and won gold and bronze medals at the Games. Reached by SI on Monday, Fernandez blamed the positive result on cold medication she had taken.
Alexi Lalas. In '92 the soccer star was found to have an elevated ratio of testosterone to epitestosterone, which can indicate steroid use. Nevertheless, Lalas was allowed to compete at the '92 Olympics. Though Lalas could not be reached, his agent, Richard Motzkin, says the positive was "a onetime blip" not caused by steroid use.
Dave Schultz. The '84 wrestling gold medalist tested positive for the stimulant phentermine in '93. USA Wrestling issued a letter of reprimand but let him compete. Schultz was shot to death in '96 by wrestling benefactor John du Pont.
Exum's records are piecemeal and do not provide a blanket condemnation of USOC testing. There's no evidence of widespread steroid use being covered up. Many positives are for substances found in over-the-counter medications, and other countries' federations have for years excused drug use by some of their athletes as accidental. Yet many athletes do get disqualified for testing positive for the substances that, for example, Lewis and Fernandez tested positive for. The IOC maintains that athletes are responsible for any drugs in their system.
Carl Lewis's positive test covered up
By Jacquelin Magnay
April 18 2003
Olympic 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.
The World Anti-Doping Agency's chairman, **** Pound, dismissed the "no intent" defence. Mr Pound has seen copies of the documents and said that in some instances there was almost "automatic forgiveness" by the US officials.
Letters written by a US Olympic Committee executive, Baaron Pittenger, were sent advising some athletes of their positive drug-test results - and at the same time told them they were being cleared.
"It's got to be pretty embarrassing to the USOC," said Mr Pound, "to have their secretary-general writing in the letter, where he advises an athlete of a positive A sample, 'I have to send you this, but we already decided this was inadvertent.' That whole process turned into a joke."
Dr Exum, the former USOC
director for drug control from 1991 to 2000, released more than 30,000 pages of documents to Sports Illustrated. They confirm widespread su****ion of the USOC drug-testing system before it was moved to an independent body, the US Anti Doping Agency, after the Sydney Olympics.
The Herald reported last year that a US athlete tested positive to steroids in 1999 but was allowed to compete - and win an Olympic gold medal - in the 2000 Sydney Games. US officials still refuse to divulge the name of the athlete, or those of 13 other athletes who had failed drug tests around the same time, citing privacy laws.
In the Seoul 100m, Britain's Linford Christie was elevated from third to second after Johnson was disqualified. In later years, Christie was banned for using steroids.
The International Olympic Committee's medical commission chairman, Arne Ljungqvist, said the Exum documents "fit a pattern" of failure to report on positive drug cases. But the USOC called Dr Exum's accusations "baseless".
Dr Exum said there were more than 100 positive tests for US athletes who won 19 Olympic medals between 1988 and 2000, but many were allowed to keep competing.Comment
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So, basically: carl Lewis went through rigorous testing. And went through the adjudication processes.
the USOC accepted his appeal on the basis of inadvertent use.
He is asking Pacquiao to go through the same processes.Comment
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