Sprinter says he cheated

Former track star Tim Montgomery said he took testosterone and human growth hormone before the Sydney Olympics, where he won a gold medal on the U.S. 400-meter relay team.

The admission was made during an interview scheduled to air Tuesday night on HBO’s “Real Sports With Bryant Gumbel.”

“I have a gold medal that I’m sitting on that I didn’t get with my own ability,” he said in the interview. “I’m not here to take away from anybody else’s accomplishments, only my own. And I must say, I apologize to the other people that were on the relay team if that was to happen.”

Montgomery never tested positive for drugs, but he was banned from track for two years and his world record in the 100 meters was erased after he was linked to the BALCO investigation. He retired after the ban was imposed in 2005.

“If Tim Montgomery cheated at the games, then he should step forward and voluntarily return his medal, just as others from the 2000 team have done,” Darryl Seibel, spokesman for the U.S. Olympic Committee, said Sunday.

How Montgomery’s admission might affect his teammates is not clear. Jon Drummond, Bernard Williams, Brian Lewis, Maurice Greene and Kenneth Brokenburr were the other members of the 400 relay team.

The U.S. men’s team that won the 1,600 relay in Sydney had to give up its medals after Antonio Pettigrew admitted doping.

The International Olympic Committee also vacated the victory by the U.S. women’s 1,600 relay team in Sydney and the third-place finish of the 400 relay squad because Marion Jones, Montgomery’s former girlfriend, had doped.

Montgomery also said in the interview that he signed a $98,000 shoe contract with Asics while still in college, a violation of NCAA rules.

Montgomery is serving a 46-month prison sentence for check fraud involving $1.7 million and then must serve five years for selling heroin to an informant.

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GOLF

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Armour finished regulation with a four-over 76. Simpson shot a 70 after beginning the final round six shots behind Armour. MacKenzie rallied from a nine-shot deficit with a final-round 67.

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