World's fastest men part of scandal probe

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Fourteen months after starring in history's fastest race, Tim Montgomery and Dwain Chambers again are linked in a headline-grabbing event.
This time, though, the drama is taking place far from the track. It is based in courtrooms and laboratories, where grand jurors and scientists are sorting through the sporting world's latest drug scandal.
Montgomery, the world's fastest man, testified this week before a federal grand jury in San Francisco that sources say is probing drug use by some of the nation's top athletes as well as possible wrongdoing by a Bay Area lab.
Chambers blames that same lab for his positive drug test for the newly discovered steroid THG. Chambers was suspended Friday after UK Athletics confirmed he had tested positive for the steroid, and now faces a two-year suspension and a lifetime ban from the Olympics.
It was in September 2002 that Montgomery set his 100-meter world record of 9.78 seconds at a meet in Paris. Chambers finished second in 9.87, matching the European record.
On Thursday, Montgomery was among the latest U.S. track and field stars to appear before the grand jury. Dozens of other athletes also have been subpoenaed in the case.
All have been customers of the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative, or BALCO. An attorney for BALCO founder Victor Conte has said his client is the target of the grand jury probe.