Busy Week For Tim Montgomery
Posted Wednesday, 1 June, 2005
RALEIGH (North Carolina): Tim Montgomery is planning to compete at the Prefontaine Classic, two days before a hearing in front of the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) on doping charges that could ban him for life.
“He's running,” a source close to the sprinter told Reuters on Monday when asked about world record holder Montgomery's appearance in the 100m in Saturday's meeting at Eugene, Oregon.
Organiser Tom Jordan would not confirm Montgomery's entry.
“The field for the men's 100 metres will be announced on Friday,” Jordan told Reuters via telephone from his Eugene office.
Montgomery's partner, Marion Jones, said on Monday she would run in the women's 100m at the Prefontaine Classic.
Jones confirmed her appearance in Oregon during a news conference in Milan. She will also compete over the same distance in the Italian city today.
Triple Olympic champion Jones said Montgomery would compete before his CAS hearing in San Francisco next Monday.
“You'll see him over the next week or so,” she said without naming the meeting where he would run.
“He's excited to be competing.”
Although he has never failed a doping test, Montgomery has been charged with serious doping violations by the US Anti-Doping Agency in connection with the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative (BALCO) scandal.
The agency wants a lifetime ban for the sprinter.
Montgomery's appeal will be heard by the CAS, whose decision will be binding.
He set the 100m world record of 9.78 in September 2002.
Montgomery has competed twice this year, running a 4x100m relay in April and finishing fourth in 10.14 in a 100m in Martinique later that month. – Reuters
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