LOS ANGELES: Former world shot putt champion C.J. Hunter has accused the head of international athletics of offering to cover up his positive steroid test if he feigned an injury and withdrew from the 2000 Olympics.
Hunter told the San Jose Mercury News the IAAF wanted to avoid a major scandal just before the Sydney Games and the body's general secretary Istvan Gyulai made the offer before a meeting in Brussels on Aug 25 2000.
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