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<span style="font-weight: bold">US relay runners win Olympic medals appeal
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Source: Yahoo Sports
Writer: GRAHAM DUNBAR, AP Sports Writer
GENEVA (AP)—American sprinters who were stripped of their 2000 Olympics relay medals because teammate Marion Jones was doping won an appeal Friday to have them restored.
The Court of Arbitration for Sport ruled in favor of the women, who had appealed the International Olympic Committee’s decision to disqualify them from the Sydney Games.
The ruling Friday dashed the hopes of Jamaica’s team of being upgraded from silver to gold in the 4x400 relay. Russia finished third and Nigeria out of the medals in fourth. In the 4x100, the U.S. edged France out of the medals.
Read the rest here:Yahoo Sports
<span style="font-weight: bold">US relay runners win Olympic medals appeal
</span>
Source: Yahoo Sports
Writer: GRAHAM DUNBAR, AP Sports Writer
GENEVA (AP)—American sprinters who were stripped of their 2000 Olympics relay medals because teammate Marion Jones was doping won an appeal Friday to have them restored.
The Court of Arbitration for Sport ruled in favor of the women, who had appealed the International Olympic Committee’s decision to disqualify them from the Sydney Games.
The ruling Friday dashed the hopes of Jamaica’s team of being upgraded from silver to gold in the 4x400 relay. Russia finished third and Nigeria out of the medals in fourth. In the 4x100, the U.S. edged France out of the medals.
Read the rest here:Yahoo Sports