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IOC to probe US relay gold at Athens Games

Feb 8, 2010, 0:24 GMT

Vancouver - The International Olympic Committee Sunday opened an investigation into a doping case involving a winning US relay team at the 2004 summer Games in Athens. IOC vice-president Thomas Bach said at the IOC executive board meeting in Vancouver he would lead a three-man panel into the case of Crystal Cox, who ran in the preliminaries of the winning 4x400m team. Cox has admitted to using anabolic steroids and accepted a four-year suspension and disqualification of her results from 2001 to 2004, the US Anti-Doping Agency said last month. Bach said he did not wish to speculate on the outcome of the investigation. 'We will give her the opportunity one way or the other to be heard, but first of all we have to check the documents to see how far the admission reaches and then we can take it forward,' Bach said. The US team of Sanya Richards, Dee Dee Trotter, Monique Henderson and Monique Hennegan won the Athens 4x400m relay final ahead of Russia and Jamaica. Following the Marion Jones doping case, the IOC stripped the US of its gold medal in the 4x400m relay and bronze in the 4x100m relay won at the 2000 Games. The US men's 4x400m relay team was also stripped of its Sydney gold after a doping admission by Antonio Pettigrew.

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