LOS ANGELES (AP) – The U.S. Anti-Doping Agency alleges 100-meter world-record holder Tim Montgomery used five banned steroids and human growth hormone, the Los Angeles Times reported Tuesday.
According to documents obtained by the newspaper, USADA accuses Montgomery of using banned substances as far back as 2000, two years before setting the world record. In addition to the steroids and growth hormone, the agency says Montgomery used the blood-booster EPO and insulin.
In notifying Montgomery of alleged doping violations that might keep him off the U.S. Olympic team this summer, USADA also says it “anticipates testimony” – it doesn’t say from whom – regarding Montgomery’s “admitted use of the clear,”‘ which was later determined to be the designer steroid THG.
Other evidence against Montgomery allegedly includes urine and blood test results that USADA says are consistent with the use of banned substances; calendars sketching out cycles of substance use; handwritten notes that make reference to various steroids; and laboratory payments, invoices and correspondence, the Times reported Tuesday.
The accusations are contained in a letter that USADA sent to Montgomery on June 7. The letter notified Montgomery of potential violations.
Montgomery responded to the letter last Friday, and a USADA review panel now will recommend whether to pursue charges against him.
Montgomery, the boyfriend of track superstar Marion Jones, has never failed a doping test administered by track or Olympic authorities.
His attorney, Cristina Arguedas of Emeryville, said last week that there is no evidence Montgomery has ever admitted using banned substances and she said he has done nothing wrong.
Arguedas also said that “virtually all” of the allegations against Montgomery come from the files of Victor Conte, founder of the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative, or BALCO.
Montgomery and Conte had a “bitter” falling out and thus the “very nature of Conte’s relationship with Tim makes these documents suspect and unreliable on their face,” Arguedas said.
Arguedas did not immediately respond to a telephone call from The Associated Press on Tuesday.
The review board was expected to meet this week to consider the cases of Montgomery and top U.S. sprinters Chryste Gaines, Michelle Collins and Alvin Harrison.
The U.S. Olympic track and field trials begin July 9 in Sacramento.
Earlier, sprinter Kelli White accepted a two-year ban that will keep her out of the Athens Games.
Last weekend, Montgomery finished sixth in the 100 at a meet in Eugene, Ore. He identified White as the one who is providing information against him.
“It’s not on paper. It’s all someone saying something,” Montgomery said. “She don’t live with me, so I don’t know how she would know.”
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