Michael Johnson, Antonio Pettigrew and Jerome Young ('98) lose 4x400m relay world mark to Michael Johnson, Andrew Valman and crew ('93)

The IAAF rescinded the 1600M relay world record from the Michael Johnson relay crew 1998, and reinstated the Michael Johnson relay crew 1993's WR time.  Moral to this story: don't dope and recruit Michael Johnson to run on your 4x400M relay team.

The Michael Johnson relay team '98 included Andrew Pettigrew, Jerome Young, and Tyree Washington.  Young and Pettigrew confessed to doping (10 years later, but a confession is a confession).  Those were the days, weren't they, when men were men, and dope was dope.

The Michael Johnson 1600M relay '93 (below right, ViewImage) included Andrew Valmon, Quincy Watts, Harry Reynolds and Michael Johnson.

Team MJ '98(above left) ran a 2:54.29, beating the world record of 2:54.29 set by Team MJ '93.  Wonder how Michael Johnson feels about losing his record due to doping?  Wonder if Michael Johnson now feels justified in retaining his '93 record once the tainted '98 Michael Johnson team record was rescinded.  To the link (UPI)

The international body governing track and field has rescinded a 1,600-meter relay record set in 1998 and restored a mark set in 1993 as the world record.  

The record was returned to U.S. runners Andrew Vlamon, Quincy Watts, Harry Reynolds and Michael Johnson, who ran a 2:54.29 on Aug. 22, 1993, in a meet in Germany.

The International Association of Athletics Federations disqualified a mark of 2:54.20 set in July 1998 after a member of the team admitted to doping violations.

Antonio Pettigrew, Jerome Young, Tyree Washington and Johnson set the 1998 record, but Pettigrew has since admitted to using human growth hormone and erythropoietin from 1997-2003. The IAAF on Tuesday said it was disallowing the record the foursome had set.

Pettigrew was on the U.S. 1,600-meter relay team that won the gold medal in the 2000 Olympics in Sydney, another result that has been wiped out because of Pettigrew's doping admissions.

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How do you know if Michael Johnson was not doping? I am sure someday we will know the truth.