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  USATODAY.com - Olympic sprinter Tim Montgomery arrested, charged in fraud scheme
Montgomery, the former 100-meter world record holder who was banned last year from track and field after being implicated in the BALCO doping scandal, surrendered to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Norfolk, Va., on Friday morning and spent the afternoon in custody.
Montgomery knew the Shyne and Singh family through an acquaintance, according to the indictment.
Montgomery was arrested Friday in connection with a bank fraud scheme.
www.usatoday.com /sports/olympics/summer/track/2006-04-28-montgomery-arrested_x.htm   (690 words)

  
  Tim Montgomery
Tim Montgomery (born January 25, 1975) is an American athlete, and holder of the World Record in the 100 m as of September 14, 2002.
Montgomery did not qualify for the 1996 Summer Olympics 100 m, although he did compete in Atlanta in the heats of the 4 x 100 m relay team that eventually finished second.
Montgomery did not qualify for the individual event of the 2000 Summer Olympics, though he again ran as an alternate in the heats of the relay event; in the final, the USA won the gold medal.
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  Tim Montgomery - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Tim Montgomery (born January 25, 1975) is a disgraced American former athlete found guilty of being a drug cheat.
Montgomery did not qualify for the 1996 Summer Olympics 100 metres, although he did compete in Atlanta in the heats of the 4 x 100 metres relay team that eventually finished second.
Montgomery did not qualify for the individual event of the 2000 Summer Olympics, though he again ran as an alternate in the heats of the relay event; in the final, the USA won the gold medal.
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 Tim Montgomery - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Montgomery did not qualify for the 1996 Summer Olympics 100 meters, although he did compete in Atlanta in the heats of the 4 x 100 metres relay team that eventually finished second.
Montgomery did not qualify for the individual 100 m at the 2000 Summer Olympics, though he again ran as an alternate in the heats of the relay event; in the final, the USA won the gold medal.
Montgomery did not qualify for the 2004 Summer Olympics, finishing seventh in the final of the United States Olympic trials.
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 Montgomery - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Montgomery, Alberta was a town in Canada that was annexed by the city of Calgary in 1963.
Montgomery is better known to history as the paternal grandfather of Field Marshal Bernard Alan Montgomery, Viscount Montgomery of Alamein.
Montgomery is, according to placesnamed.com, the name of 86 places in the United States of America, some which were named in honour of the general Richard Montgomery, who died in the American Revolutionary War attempting to capture Quebec, Canada.
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 (AP) Tim Montgomery Pleads Not Guilty to Fraud | WKRN.COM   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Olympic gold medalist Tim Montgomery pleaded not guilty Wednesday to charges that he was connected to a multimillion-dollar bank fraud and money laundering scheme.
Montgomery retired in December after he was banned from track and field for two years by the Court of Arbitration for Sport for doping.
Montgomery won his gold medal in the 400 relay at the 2000 Olympics.
www.wkrn.com /nashville/news/ap-tim-montgomery-pleads-not-guilty-to-fraud   (488 words)

  
 ABC Sport - Athletics - Conte says Montgomery a drug cheat
American sprinter Tim Montgomery was using performance enhancing drugs when he set the coveted 100 metres world record of 9.78 seconds in Paris in 2002, accused steroid supplier Victor Conte said in an interview aired on American television.
Montgomery and fellow American sprinter Chryste Gaines were due to have their cases heard by the Court of Arbitration for Sport in San Francisco on November 1, but the hearing has been postponed.
Montgomery is not the only athlete named by Mr Conte, who also told 20/20 that he gave performance enhancing drugs to US sprint queen Marion Jones before she won five medals at the 2000 Sydney Olympics.
www.abc.net.au /sport/content/200412/s1258034.htm   (493 words)

  
 BBC SPORT | Athletics | Montgomery breaks world record
Tim Montgomery beat the men's 100m world record with an astonishing run of 9.78 seconds to win the Grand Prix final in Paris.
Montgomery had constantly said he was capable of breaking the world record, and delivered with a brilliant performance.
Montgomery was awarded the prize as he has now broken a world record this season.
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 Tim Montgomery - Athletics   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Tim Montgomery was born on 28th January 1976 in Ackerman, USA.
Tim Montgomery in an interview given to the newspaper ‘USA Today’ said, “It is no coincidence that I achieved this world record now that I am with Marion.
It is wonderful to have your partner with you on your constant trips to Europe, more so if she understands your work.” He did not hide the fact that on many occasions Jones has given him advice, as in the case with the exchange of words with Green.
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 Montgomery Suspended for Steroid Use - New York Times   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Tim Montgomery, the American sprinter who held the world record for the 100-meter dash from September 2002 to last June, was suspended yesterday for two years by international sport's highest court.
Tim Montgomery's record for the 100-meter dash, which was set on Sept. 14, 2002, has been erased by a two-year suspension.
Montgomery and Marion Jones, a winner of five Olympic medals in the 2000 Sydney Games, are the parents of Tim Montgomery Jr.
www.nytimes.com /2005/12/14/sports/othersports/14montgomery.html?ex=1292216400&en=a37c52c87d4bc7c6&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss   (976 words)

  
 Cayman Net News: Duelling for gold in the scorching heat of Athens
As the world record holder in the 100-meter dash, Tim Montgomery could be excused if he basked a bit in the glory of the title "the World's Fastest Man," a title he won at the IAAF Grand Prix Final in Paris on 14 September 2002 with a blazing 9.78-second performance.
Montgomery, a South Carolina native and North Carolina resident, said that one of the reasons he and his partner Marion Jones came to Cayman was because Greene was training in California.
Although Montgomery already has one gold medal to his credit - as part of the US 4x100 metre relay team that won the event in the 2000 Sydney Olympics - his sights are firmly focused now on Athens, where he'll be pushed by sprinters like his rival Maurice Greene, and his newly-found friend Kareem Streete-Thompson.
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 Sports: Montgomery breaks world record in 100
Montgomery set a world record in the 100 meters Saturday, clocking 9.78 seconds and dethroning Maurice Greene as the king of sprint.
Montgomery credited the conditions for his ability to break the dash record.
Montgomery's best was 9.84, and he had not run faster than 9.91 this season.
www.sptimes.com /2002/09/15/news_pf/Sports/Montgomery_breaks_wor.shtml   (314 words)

  
 SI.com - More Sports - Montgomery announces retirement day after ban - Wednesday December 14, 2005 9:17PM
Tim Montgomery said he had never knowingly taken a banned substance.
Montgomery and fellow American sprinter Chryste Gaines were each banned for two years on Tuesday after CAS accepted evidence the pair had taken the designer steroid THG (tetrahydrogestrinone) that is at the centre of the BALCO laboratory doping scandal.
Montgomery denied telling White in a conversation in 2001 that he had used the steroid.
sportsillustrated.cnn.com /2005/more/12/14/bc.sport.doping.montgomery.retirement/index.html   (315 words)

  
 abc7.com: Sprinter Tim Montgomery Pleads Guilty in NYC Fraud Scheme   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Montgomery's plea deal "reflects his minor role" in an alleged conspiracy and does not require him to testify at the trial of his former coach, Steven Riddick, and other co-defendants, according to a statement from his lawyers.
Montgomery, 32, was charged last year along with Riddick, and 11 others in an alleged conspiracy to deposit $5 million in stolen, altered or counterfeit checks at several banks over three years.
Montgomery was a 2000 Olympic gold medalist and a former 100-meter world record holder.
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 sport.iafrica.com | today Tim Montgomery admits to drug use
World 100 metre record-holder Tim Montgomery told a federal grand jury that he used human growth hormone and a steroid-like "magic potion" and could face a lifetime ban, according to newspaper reports.
Montgomery, who set a 100 metre world record of 9.78 seconds in 2002, is among four US athletes who were notified on Wednesday by the United States Anti-Doping Agency that they face doping charges that could bring lifetime bans, according to other newspaper reports.
Montgomery's companion is Marion Jones, who has been the subject of a USADA investigation but has not been charged, and who has denied ever using banned substances.
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 SignOnSanDiego.com > Sports -- Olympic sprinter Tim Montgomery charged with fraud scheme
NEW YORK – Olympic gold medalist Tim Montgomery was arrested Friday on charges that he was connected to a multimillion-dollar bank fraud and money laundering scheme, prosecutors said.
Montgomery, who the indictment said knew the family through an acquaintence, deposited three bogus checks worth a total of $775,000.
All of Montgomery's performances were wiped off the books as of March 31, 2001, including his world record dash of 9.78 seconds in 2002.
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Tim Montgomery just happens to be closer to catching him than anyone else.
Montgomery enters Sunday's Prefontaine Classic in Eugene, Ore., with Greene on his mind as always, but not in the field.
Montgomery did outrun Greene in their only meeting this year on the anchor legs of the 4x100 relay at the Penn Relays in April, and now he not-so-patiently awaits his next opportunity to challenge Greene's title.
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 Montgomery Fails to Qualify in 100 Meters - General - RedOrbit   (Site not responding. Last check: )
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Tim Montgomery, the world's fastest man, failed to qualify for the Athens Games in the 100 meters Sunday night, saving the U.S. Olympic Committee from having to kick him off the team if he is found guilty of using steroids.
Montgomery's girlfriend, three-time Olympic champion Marion Jones, failed to qualify Saturday in the 100 but still will try to make the U.S. team for Athens in the 200 and the long jump.
Montgomery, Jones and dozens of other athletes testified before the grand jury that ultimately indicted four men connected with the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative.
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 Montgomery charged with doping offence
Tim Montgomery, the world's fastest man, was officially charged by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) of committing a doping offence on Wednesday and could now be banned from competing at the Athens Olympics.
Montgomery and Collins were two of four U.S. sprinters sent letters last week by the USADA alleging doping violations in connection with the BALCO doping scandal.
Montgomery's partner triple Olympic champion Marion Jones is also under scrutiny by the USADA but has not been charged with any offence.
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 Sprinter Tim Montgomery retires following ban
30-year-old Tim Montgomery was banned by the Court of Arbitration for Sport on Tuesday despite not testing positive for drugs and the charges were brought by the US Anti-Doping Agency based on evidence gathered in the Balco laboratory case.
Tim Montgomery, whose ban expires in the summer of 2007, has denied ever "knowingly" taking a banned substance.
As well as the ban, Tim Montgomery was stripped of his 100m world record, the gold and silver medals he won at the 2001 World Championships and has had all his results since 31 March 2001 removed from the record books.
www.girlstalksports.com /More-Sports/Athletics/Sprinter-Tim-Montgomery-retires-following-ban-20051215505   (273 words)

  
 ESPN The Magazine: 7.12 | 06/07/2004 | MONTGOMERY
Montgomery never graduated from Blinn, but in 1996, he was recruited by D-II Norfolk State, where then-coach Steve Riddick honed his explosion by making him run in deep water and practice standing starts in the sand.
Montgomery finished the year ranked second in the world to Greene, and the money started pouring in; by one account as much as $600,000 in 2001.
Montgomery was grinning broadly when he was ushered into the press area, hand in hand with Jones.
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 WJLA - Tim Montgomery Withdraws From 100 Meters   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Embattled sprinter Tim Montgomery, facing a possible lifetime ban from the sport, withdrew from the 100 meters at the U.S. track and field championships Friday, hours before the event's preliminary round.
Montgomery set the world 100 record at 9.78 seconds in 2002, and the mark stood until Asafa Powell of Jamaica ran 9.77 last week.
The boyfriend of Marion Jones and father of her child, Montgomery is awaiting word on his appeal of the lifetime ban proposed by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency.
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 Cool Running :: Busy Week For Tim Montgomery
RALEIGH (North Carolina): Tim Montgomery is planning to compete at the Prefontaine Classic, two days before a hearing in front of the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) on doping charges that could ban him for life.
Montgomery's partner, Marion Jones, said on Monday she would run in the women's 100m at the Prefontaine Classic.
Montgomery has competed twice this year, running a 4x100m relay in April and finishing fourth in 10.14 in a 100m in Martinique later that month.
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 Sprinter admitted use of BALCO 'magic potion' / November testimony to federal grand jury contradicts record-holder's ...
Tim Montgomery, the world's fastest man, told a federal grand jury he used human growth hormone and a steroidlike "magic potion" provided by the alleged ringleader of the BALCO steroids scandal, The Chronicle has learned.
Montgomery, who shattered one of track and field's most cherished marks in 2002 when he ran 100 meters in 9.78 seconds, admitted to the grand jury that Victor Conte gave him weekly doses of growth hormone and a steroid-like drug known as "the clear" over an eight-month span ending the summer of 2001.
Montgomery also testified that when he and Jones began their relationship in 2002, he warned her about Graham, who also was her coach.
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 SignOnSanDiego.com > Sports -- Star sprinter Tim Montgomery charged with fraud scheme
NEW YORK – Olympic gold medalist Tim Montgomery was arrested Friday on charges he was connected to a multimillion-dollar bank fraud and money laundering scheme.
Montgomery, the former 100-meter world record holder, surrendered to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Norfolk, Va., on Friday morning and spent the afternoon in custody.
Montgomery knew the Shyne and Singh family through an acquaintance, according to the indictment.
www.signonsandiego.com /sports/20060428-1505-montgomeryarrested.html   (616 words)

  
 JS Online: Statements infuriate Bonds
Montgomery reportedly testified to a grand jury that the man at the center of a Bay Area steroid scandal told him he supplied the San Francisco Giants' slugger with performance-enhancing drugs.
Montgomery, the world's fastest man, was told Wednesday by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency that he faces a lifetime ban from the sport.
Montgomery was among dozens of elite athletes - including Bonds, Jason Giambi and Montgomery's girlfriend, Olympian Marion Jones - who answered the grand jury's questions.
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