Crystal Cox

Crystal Cox
Personal information
Born (1979-03-28) March 28, 1979
Durham, NC
Medal record
Women's athletics
Representing the  United States
Disqualified Athens 2004 4x400 m relay

Crystal Cox (born March 28, 1979 in Norfolk, Virginia) is an American track and field athlete who was on the national team at the 2004 Athens Summer Olympics and appeared as a contestant on the seventeenth season of the reality series Survivor.

Career

Athletics

Cox won a gold medal in the women's 4x400 m relay at the 2004 Athens Summer Olympics, which was later stripped in 2012 after she admitted to doping.[1] In Athens she ran in the preliminary round but not in the final. DeeDee Trotter, Monique Henderson, Sanya Richards and Monique Hennagan ran in the final. In 2004, she was the American indoor 200 m champion.

On January 29, 2010, the Associated Press and ESPN.com reported that Cox admitted to using anabolic steroids from 2001 to 2004. As a result, she forfeited all of her results from that time period, and agreed to a four-year suspension that ended in January 2014.[2] IAAF has recommended that the whole U.S. women's 2004 Olympic 4x400 metres relay team be stripped of their medals.[3] In 2013, both the IAAF and the IOC announced that the American squad (except Cox) would be allowed to retain their gold medals.[4]

Television

Cox was one of the contestants in Survivor: Gabon, which premiered in fall 2008.[5]

Despite her Olympic training, Cox lost 12 of the 14 tribal challenges, though she made it to the final six. Her main alliance consisted of Kenny Hoang, Jessica "Sugar" Kiper, Susie Smith, and Matty Whitmore. On the December 11, 2008 episode, Cox was voted out and became the fifth member of the jury.

References

  1. ↑ "American sprinter Crystal Cox stripped of 2004 Olympic Gold Medal in 4X400 relay".
  2. ↑ Associated Press (January 29, 2010). "Relay team member suspended 4 years". ESPN.com. Retrieved 2010-01-29.
  3. ↑ Cherry, Gene (March 15, 2010). "IAAF to recommend US relay team be stripped of gold". Reuters. Retrieved 2010-03-16.
  4. ↑ "USA allowed to keep Athens 2004 relay gold". BBC Sport. 31 May 2013. Retrieved 23 November 2016.
  5. ↑ "Crystal Cox bio". CBS.com. Retrieved August 27, 2008.

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