Sprinter Young stripped of his 2000 gold medal

The track athlete plans to fight the IOC ruling.
LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) -- Sprinter Jerome Young was formally stripped of his relay gold medal from the 2000 Olympics Thursday for a positive doping test a year before the games.
Young's agent said the sprinter plans to fight the ruling in court.
The International Olympic Committee also reinstated Colombian cyclist Maria Luisa Calle's bronze medal from the 2004 Athens Games.
Young was a member of the winning U.S. 1,600-meter relay squad in Sydney. He ran in the preliminaries but not the final. Michael Johnson ran the anchor leg for the fifth and final gold medal of his Olympic career.
It was disclosed in 2003 that Young had tested positive for steroids at the U.S. nationals in 1999 but was cleared by a U.S. panel on appeal and allowed to compete in Sydney.
Ban deserved
The International Association of Athletics Federations said Young should have received a two-year ban and been ineligible for Sydney. The IAAF also said the entire U.S. team should be disqualified. In addition to Young and Johnson, the team featured Antonio Pettigrew, Angelo Taylor and twins Alvin and Calvin Harrison.
But the Court or Arbitration for Sport ruled in July that only Young should be stripped of the medal. The IOC executive board complied with the ruling Thursday, ordering the U.S. Olympic Committee to return Young's medal.
Young, who has been banned for life for two doping offenses, has said he doesn't plan to give the medal back.
"We are aware of the IOC's request and will transmit that request to Mr. Young and his representatives," USOC spokesman Darryl Seibel said.
Young's agent, Morris Chrobotek, said he plans to file suit in the United States against the IOC and various U.S. and international governing bodies.
"I will gladly give back the medal on a gold platter after we go to court with a jury," Chrobotek said from his office in Toronto.
"I welcome all of them -- USA Track & amp; Field, the U.S. Olympic Committee, USADA, IAAF and the IOC -- to sit in a courtroom.
"There is no question in our minds that all procedures were bent and twisted," he added. "Nobody knows what really happened."
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