i think tim deserves what he gets.
glad that sport stars dont get away with shit like this too. my question is.. whos looking after the kid they had together???
looks like tims' gonna be in the slammer for a while. shame that someone with so much talent would resort to performance enhancing steroids, then cheque fraud and now heroin. things just keep getting worse.
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Olympic star jailed on heroin chargesFrom correspondents in Washington
October 11, 2008 03:37am
FORMER US track star Tim Montgomery, an Olympic gold medalist now banned from the sport, has been sentenced to five years in prison on heroin charges.
Montgomery, once known as the fastest man alive, was sentenced in Federal court in Norfolk, Virginia for conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute more than 100 grams of heroin, according to a court document. He had pleaded guilty to the charges in July.
Montgomery won an Olympic gold medal at the 2000 Games in Sydney as a member of the US 4x100m relay team.
Two years later, he set a 100m world record of 9.78 seconds but that was erased from the record books after the US anti-doping agency found he had received steroids. He was barred from competition in 2005.
Last May, Montgomery was sentenced to 46 months in prison for a cheque fraud and money laundering scheme in which he tried to deposit three cheques worth $775,000.
That case also ensnared his former girlfriend, the sprinter Marion Jones, who was sentenced to six months for misleading investigators about the check fraud scheme and lying about her steroid use.
Jones has been stripped of her five 2000 Olympic medals and banned from the sport.
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