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Article: U.S. Relay Team to Learn Gold Medal Fate
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- July 21, 2005
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07-21-2005
Dateline: LAUSANNE, Switzerland
Michael Johnson and the rest of the U.S. 1,600 relay team will find out Thursday if they'll get to keep their gold medals from the Sydney Olympics.
The United States Olympic Committee filed an appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport challenging a recommendation by the IAAF to disqualify the entire squad for a doping scandal involving team member Jerome Young.
The petition was lodged with the Lausanne-based court by the USOC and five team members _ Johnson, twins Alvin and Calvin Harrison, Antonio Pettigrew and Jerome Taylor. Young isn't covered by the USOC appeal. The five believe only Young should be stripped of the gold medal and ...