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Four-time Jamaican Olympian Raymond Stewart, who later became a coach in the United States, has been banned for life from athletics for acquiring banned performance-enhancing drugs for his athletes.
The United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) suspended Stewart after an arbitrator determined the coach had secured banned drugs from a supplier for athletes he coached and trained, the agency said on its website (www.usantidoping.org) on Monday.
"Stewart's participation in trafficking in prohibited substances, as well as administration and attempted administration of prohibited substances, in violation of applicable sport anti-doping rules," had led to the ban, USADA said in a statement.
Stewart worked with banned U.S. sprinter Jerome Young, Americans Kenny Burkenburr and J.J. Johnson and Jamaican Olympian Beverly McDonald, according to the arbitrator.
"Violating the sacred responsibility and standards of a coach by aiding athletes with doping is truly reprehensible," USADA chief executive Travis Tygart said.
Stewart, a former sprinter, won a silver medal with Jamaica's 4x100 metres relay team at the 1984 Olympics.
He became the third coach banned for life by USADA, the anti-doping agency said.
Trevor Graham, the coach of Marion Jones, Tim Montgomery and others, and veteran coach Remi Korchemny earlier received lifetime suspensions.
Graham, who was banned after being convicted in a United States court of lying to federal investigators in connection with the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative (BALCO) doping scandal, has filed a $30 million slander lawsuit against USADA.
(Reporting by Gene Cherry in Raleigh, North Carolina. Editing by Ian Ransom; To query or comment on this story email sportsfeedback@thomsonreuters.com)
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