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Ex-Olympian Gets 46 Months for Check Fraud

Posted May 17, 08 6:13 CDT in Crime & Courts,  Sports 

(Newser) – Disgraced Olympic gold medalist Tim Montgomery was sentenced to 46 months yesterday for his part in a check-fraud scam, the Washington Post reports. Montgomery, who still faces heroin-dealing charges, once held the 100m world record but was stripped of it for doping. He has a son with Marion Jones, who is in prison for lying about doping and about her part in the scam.

"I've had everything I ever wanted in life. I've stood on the top of the mountain," Montgomery told the court. "The gold medal, all those people cheering, that was part of another world. In jail, my status is gone."

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In this Sept. 19, 2002 file photo, Tim Montgomery speaks with his girlfiend and training partner Marion Jones during a news conference in Madrid, Spain.   (AP Photo/Paul White, File)
In this May 2006 file photo, Olympic gold medalist Tim Montgomery enters Manhattan federal court in New York. Montgomery has been sentenced to 46 months in jail for his part in a fake-check scheme.   (AP Photo/ Louis Lanzano)
Timothy J. Heaphy, attorney for Tim Montgomery, speaks in front of the US Federal Court in White Plains, N.Y., where his client was brought to be sentenced Friday, May 16, 2008.   (AP Photo/David Karp)
Montgomery competes in the men's 100m, Paris, 2003.   (Getty Images)
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