US Doping Agency Bans Jerome Young
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DENVER, Colorado - Sprinter Jerome Young, a central figure in a doping case that could cost the US relay team its gold medal from Sydney, was banned for life by the US Anti-Doping Agency on Wednesday following his second positive test for a banned drug.
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Former Olympic sprinter Alvin Harrison has been suspended for four years for drug violations, the United States Anti-Doping Agency announced Tuesday.
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Former Detroit Tigers player Dmitri Young was sentenced Tuesday to a year of probation
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Olympic relay gold medalist and world 400-meter champion Jerome Young was given a lifetime ban from the US Anti-Doping Agency for his second performance-enhancing drug violation, according to USA Today.
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The 25-year-old tested positive for a banned substance in October, which he later denied was cocaine. He could face a two year ban from playing.
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The French Anti-Doping Agency will rule Thursday whether to ban Floyd Landis from racing in France for up to two years after his positive doping test at the 2006 Tour de France.
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PARIS  - Greek sprinters Costas Kenteris and Katerina Thanou were handed provisional bans for missing doping tests by the IAAF.
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - Sprinter Michelle Collins was suspended for eight years for a doping violation linked to the BALCO scandal and will forfeit results that include 2003 indoor world and US titles in the 200 meters.
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Tyler Hamilton almost certainly would be banned for life as a two-time offender if the US Anti-Doping Agency decides there is conclusive proof in documents from the Spanish doping scandal that the Marblehead cyclist used banned drugs in past years.
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Olympic 400 meter relay gold medallist  Alvin Harrison has been banned for four years after he admitted  taking a variety of performance-enhancing drugs.
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Sprinter Jerome Young, a central figure in a doping case that could cost the U.S. relay team its gold medal from Sydney, was banned for life by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency on Wednesday following his second positive test for a banned drug.
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Olympic 100m champion Justin Gatlin receives a four-year ban for doping, says the United States Anti-Doping Agency.
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The former world champion pole-vaulter Giuseppe Gibilisco was barred for two years yesterday for his alleged role in the Oil for Drugs case.Gibilisco and several other athletes have been linked in the case to an Italian doctor who allegedly supplied doping products.Gibilisco won the world title in 2003 and Olympic bronze in 2004.
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New York Yankees pitching prospect Hector Noesi was suspended Thursday for the first 50 games of next season after testing positive for a banned performance-enhancing substance under baseball's minor league drug program.
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Austrian Stefan Koubek, the world number 60, said on Wednesday he had been banned from competition for three months for doping. Koubek blamed an injection from an Austrian doctor
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Athens - Two weightlifters from Azerbaidjan have been banned from competitions for life after testing positive for drugs, in the first two doping cases of the Athens Paralympics, officials said here on Wednesday.
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RALEIGH, North Carolina  - U.S. sprinter Mickey  Grimes has been suspended for two years after testing positive  for the anabolic steroid norandrosterone, the U.S. Anti-Doping  Agency (USADA) said on Friday.