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Article: Collins, top 400-meter runner, targeted by doping agency.
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- San Jose Mercury News (San Jose, CA)
- Article date:
- May 28, 2004
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Byline: Elliott Almond and Pete Carey
SAN JOSE, Calif. _ Michelle Collins, one of America's best 400-meter runners, has been targeted by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency as part of its campaign to prevent track and field athletes suspected of using drugs from competing in this summer's Olympics.
Collins, the 2003 world indoor champion at 200 meters, is the latest competitor linked to Balco Laboratories caught in the web of the biggest drug scandal in American sports history. Her case surfaces more than a week after world champion Kelli White of Union City, Calif., accepted a two-year ban for admitting use of the designer steroid THG and the blood-boosting ...