• World 100m champion also sacks coach Dennis Mitchell after claims
• Mitchell and agent Robert Wagner accused of supplying banned substancesJustin Gatlin has denied he is using banned drugs and plans to remove legal action against a newspaper that claimed he was embroiled in a doping scandal.
The 35-year-old American,who won the 100m world title in London final summer, spoke out after his coach, or Dennis Mitchell,and an athletics agent, Robert Wagner, and offered to supply performance-enhancing drugs (PEDs) for a fake actor in an undercover operation conducted by the Daily Telegraph. Mitchell and Wagner have denied wrongdoing but a “shocked” Gatlin has already sacked his coach in order to protect his reputation.
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Source: guardian.co.uk