Published Wed, May 12 10 08:07 PM
The former coach of disgraced sprinters Marion Jones, Tim Montgomery and Justin Gatlin has filed a $30 million slander lawsuit against the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA), according to court documents.
Trevor Graham said in the lawsuit USADA had slandered him based on allegations he gave performance-enhancing drugs to the athletes he coached and affiliated his name with the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative (BALCO) doping scandal.
Although a number of athletes coached or previously coached by Graham have admitted to taking banned substances or been suspended for their use, he consistently has denied providing anyone performance-enhancing drugs.
The Jamaican-born Graham, who was banned from coaching for life by USADA in 2008, also said the agency had not given him a hearing on his case.
But USADA at the time of his ban said Graham had elected to withdraw his request for an arbitration hearing.
Graham played a key role in unravelling the BALCO scandal in 2003 when he anonymously sent USADA a syringe containing the designer drug tetrahydrogestrinone (THG), also known as "the clear."
He was found guilty by a U.S. court in 2008 of lying to federal agents and sentenced to a year of home confinement.
"USADA have slandered my good name worldwide with all sporting agencies, the media and others and have taken away my career by their slandering of me and not only with professionals but more importantly my family who regards me as an outstanding role model," Graham said in the lawsuit, which was filed Tuesday in U.S. federal court in Raleigh.
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