Sprint Coach, USATF Committee Chair Jon Drummond Gets 8-Year Doping Ban

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Olympic gold medalist later coached U.S. record holder Tyson Gay.

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Peter Gambaccini;

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December 17, 2014

Former sprinter Jon Drummond competing in 2004.

Jon Drummond, a 2000 Olympic 4 x 100-meter relay gold medalist who became chair of USA Track and Field's Athletes Advisory Council and coached sprinter Tyson Gay, has been banned from track and field for eight years for having “possessed, trafficked, and administered banned performance enhancing substances to an athlete under his care as a coach,” the United States Anti-Doping Agency announced today. 

A three-member panel of the American Arbitration Association North American Court of Arbitration for Sport found that Drummond, instead of using his Advisory Council position to “protect athletes,” had “failed to act in the manner expected of a coach of athletes in the Olympic Movement .... A coach must be a watchdog when it comes to prohibited substances.”

Drummond’s ineligibility will date from December 17. He cannot coach or advise or train any athletes participating in USATF or IAAF events. He cannot have access to U.S. Olympic Committee Training Centers.

In addition to Drummond's USATF committee chair position, he was a relays coach for the 2012 U.S. Olympic team.

American 100-meter record holder Gay tested positive for a prohibited substance in 2013 after being coached by Drummond for five years.

Gay won gold medals in the 100, 200, and 4 x 100 relay at the 2007 World Championships and was a 2012 Olympic 4 x 100 relay silver medalist. He tested positive for a prohibited substance at the 2013 USATF Championships. Gay received a reduced ban after reportedly providing useful information to USADA, including the claim that Drummond had injected him with substances containing banned ingredients in 2012. Drummond subsequently filed suit against Gay and USADA CEO Travis Tygart in a Texas civil court.

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