Article: Graham facing five-year jail term for lying to drug inquiry

*DRUGS IN SPORT

Trevor Graham, former coach to disgraced athletes Marion Jones, Tim Montgomery and Justin Gatlin, faces up to five years in prison after being found guilty at his trial in San Francisco yesterday of one count of perjury. A jury concluded he had lied to investigators about his relationship to steroid dealer Angel "Memo" Heredia.

In the meantime, Lamine Diack, president of the International Association of Athletics Federations, is considering ways to alter the current limitation of eight years on retroactive doping sanctions to nullify results gained by Antonio Pettigrew, a prosecution witness at the trial who confessed to doping since 1997.

That would make it possible for ...

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