Once the world's fastest man, Tom Montgomery today will be facing 5 more years in a US federal penitentiary for drug charges related to heroin distribution. This should slow him down considerably. To the BBC:
Disgraced US sprinter Tim Montgomery has been jailed for five years by a court in Virginia for heroin dealing.
The former 100m world record holder had previously pleaded guilty to possessing more than 100 grammes of the drug with intent to distribute it.
He is already serving four years in prison for fraud and conspiracy offences.
Montgomery, 33, was banned from athletics three years ago after he was found to have used
steroids.
That ban also saw him stripped of his 100m world record.
Another former sprint champion, Marion Jones - Montgomery's former girlfriend - was implicated in the cheque fraud.
She was sentenced to six months in jail for misleading investigators over the fake cheques.
Montgomery, once Marion Jone's spouse -- father to one of Jones's children -- continues his run through the underworld. The IAAF stripped Montgomery of the world 100M record after his involvement in the BALCO doping scandal. And, as mentioned, he is already serving a prison sentence for fraud.
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