Olympics

Ruby Fox, Olympic shooting silver medalist, said the U.S. Olympic Committee allowed her to take medication containing testosterone for a medical condition and then banned her from the 1992 Games for taking it.

Fox, who finished second at the 1984 Los Angeles Games and had won a spot on the 1992 Olympic team, said that the committee initially acknowledged that its drug-control hotline gave her erroneous advice. But the committee now says that she should have read a list of banned medications instead of relying on the hotline.

U.S. Olympic officials say they are standing behind the decision despite earlier assurances that she would not be penalized.