Athletics: Gatlin gets major comeback chance

The race will be at the University of Oregon track.

EUGENE: Disgraced 2004 Olympic 100 meters champion Justin Gatlin will compete in his first major race after a four-year doping ban. The 29-year-old American, who tested positive for the banned male sex hormone testosterone in 2006, will face 2008 Olympic silver medallist Richard Thompson of Trinidad and speedy Jamaicans Nesta Carter and Michael Frater. The race will be on the same University of Oregon track where he will attempt in late June to make the American team for the world championships in August.

Published in The Express Tribune, June 3^rd, 2011.