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Article: Carl Lewis dismisses positive tests, citing no special treatment.(The Orange County Register)
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- April 22, 2003
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Byline: Scott M. Reid, William Heisel and Tony Saavedra
LOS ANGELES _ Nine-time Olympic gold medal winner Carl Lewis on Tuesday shrugged off the international controversy surrounding the United States Olympic Committee's decision to excuse his positive drug tests in 1988 by saying the decision was standard operating procedure at the time.
Lewis also acknowledged that USOC officials under current rules no longer have the latitude to dismiss positive tests with a warning as they say they did in 1988. He said that under present guidelines he would have been suspended for the Olympic Games.
Lewis made his first public comments since it was revealed ...