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Article: Track Coach Graham Receives Lifetime Ban
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- The Washington Post
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- July 16, 2008
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Track coach Trevor Graham received a lifetime ban from the U.S.
Anti-Doping Agency yesterday for his role in helping his athletes
obtain performance-enhancing drugs.
Graham has been banned from participating in any event sanctioned
by the U.S. Olympic Committee, the IAAF, USA Track and Field or any
other group that participates in the World Anti-Doping Agency
program.
He was convicted in May of one count of lying to federal
investigators about his relationship to an admitted steroids dealer.
Graham is awaiting sentencing and has asked a judge to toss out his
conviction.
Graham already was banned from all USOC-sponsored facilities and
essentially had become a pariah in his sport, connected ...