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Slaney the scapegoat?
INDIANAPOLIS.
June 12 ( Reuter): Mary Slaney has been made "a sacrificial Iamb" in her fight agai-
nst an IAAF doping rule that discriminates against women, her attorney said Wednesday after the American distance star was suspended by US officials for an alleged positive drug test.
The decision prohibits the ?|ueen of American running rom participating in the national championships, which began here Wednesday. She also could be forced to forfeit her silver medal from the women's 1.500 metres at the March World Indoor Championships if further US hearings fall to exonerate her.
"But we are going to get her cleared,"' her attorney, Jim Coleman, said in a telephone interview from his Durham, North Carolina, office, "and part of her legacy may by that in addition to her track career that she got rid of this rule."
Under the rule, which led to Slaney's suspension, a testosterone to epitestosterone ratio of more than 6-to-1 is deemed suspicious and an athlete may be suspended.
"It's a bad rule, and it is going to be removed in this country, and I hope we will have it thrown out Internationally," Coleman said.
"A lot of people have been and are going to be damaged by this rule, and Mary is sort of the sacrificial lamb because she is the first really big-name person to be caught up in this."
Coleman said he had asked the US Olympic committee to declare that the rule discriminates against women and therefore would be in violation of the US amateur sports act a federal law.
"The ratio hasn't been validated tor women," said Cole-
man. a Duke University law professor," it is based on research done on men. What research has been done on women indicates that the rule is not valid."
Slaney's ratio was found to be above the 6-to-l level in a test at the US Olympic trials last summer, and two weeks ago the IAAF suspended her. pending the outcome of US hearings into the case.
Tuesday night, a US panel also suspended Slaney and de dared her ineligible for the na tional championships, which
US officials refused to confirm the decision publicly because hearings into the case were continuing, but Coleman said he had been notified Tuesday night hat Slaney had been suspended.
Whether she will seek a court order or arbitration to enter the championships remains Slaney's decision. Coleman said.
But her husband. Richard, said from the couple's home in Eugene. Oregon: "She has said all along that she would not go to court or arbitration. To do so now would be hypocritical.
"She will not come to Indianapolis. Why should she? To do what?"
Richard Slaney said the case, which has continued for a year." is killing Mary, and I don't like it."
But he said it would not stop
"She is out running this afternoon.” the former British discuss thrower said.