TBILISI, Georgia (AP) — The story of my close call with doping in the Soviet Union began in 1967, when I was 17 and had just returned home from training camp, deeply disappointed not to have made the national youth track team.I was the 100-meter and 400-meter champion for runners 17 or younger in Georgia, which at the time was one of the 15 republics that made up the Soviet Union.Determined to make the national team, consisting of four runners at each distance, I switched to a new trainer who had recently come to Georgia from Russia.My new trainer was …read more
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