Article: Action, closure desired in doping cases.(Sports)(Maurice Greene and Allen Johnson want focus to return to the track and not the lab)

Byline: Bob Rodman The Register-Guard

The doping probe that has enveloped the sport of track and field in the United States is leaving few American athletes without an opinion on the matter.

The three stars under investigation by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency who are entered in the Prefontaine Classic - sprinters Tim Montgomery, Marion Jones and Chryste Gaines - did not attend Friday's news conference for today's IAAF Grand Prix meet at Hayward Field.

Maurice Greene, the Olympic gold medal-winning sprinter who is tracking the 100-meter record he once held, did so, and brought with him his take on the drug scandal.

"Me, personally, (I ...

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