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Article: Aths: French relay team to get gold medal
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- AAP Sports News (Australia)
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- November 28, 2004
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AAP Sports News (Australia)
11-28-2004
Aths: French relay team to get gold medal
PARIS, Nov 28 AFP - France's men's 4x400 metre relay team is set to pick up the gold
medal from the 2003 world championships where they placed second following Calvin Harrison's
failure to appeal against a doping ban, it was reported today.
Harrison was part of the US relay team that won gold in Paris last year although he
was recently banned for two years for a second doping offence, meaning the Americans were
disqualified from the race.
According to sports daily L'Equipe, quoting the secretary general of the International
Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) Istvan Gyulai, France will now be awarded
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