Former champion sentenced

Former US track star Tim Montgomery, also an Olympic gold medalist now banned from the sport, was to five years in prison on heroin charges. Montgomery, once known as the fastest man alive, was sentenced for conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute more than 100 grams of heroi. He had pleaded guilty to the charges in July. Montgomery won an Olympic gold medal in 2000 as a member of the US 4x100-meter relay team. Two years later, he set a 100-meter world record of 9.78 seconds but that was later erased from the record books after the US anti-doping agency found out that he had been receiving steroids. He was barred from competition in 2005. Last May, Montgomery was sentenced to 46 months in prison for a check fraud. That case also ensnared his former girlfriend, sprinter Marion Jones, who was also sentenced to six months in prison for misleading investigators about the check fraud scheme and lying about her steroid dose.