AP
Posted: 3:52 am
June 27, 2008
EUGENE, Ore. - Justin Gatlin's pursuit of Olympic gold inBeijing is really over now. His fight against the powers that banned him from the games - well, that will be more like a marathon than a sprint.
The defending Olympic 100-meter champion lost his appeal yesterday to run in the U.S. Olympic track trials and said he will not take the case to the Supreme Court, meaning there are no more back doors or last-second maneuvers that could land him in China in six weeks.
But he will continue to seek monetary and other damages from the U.S. Olympic Committee, the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency and others, saying they discriminated against him because his first doping violation, in 2001, was for taking prescribed medication to treat attention deficit disorder.
