The use of steroids in track and field carries an automatic four-year suspension.

In 1998, Smith received a four-year suspension for tampering with a urine sample.

As a result, she will forfeit all of her results from that time period, and has agreed to a four-year suspension.

"He cannot compete anywhere until his four-year suspension is complete," Gyulai said.

In high school, when she missed a drug test and was given a four-year suspension, she did not panic.

She originally won the 1993 World Championships, but failed a drug test and received a four-year suspension.

The board said she must serve her full four-year suspension.

She received a four-year suspension in 1998 for tampering with a urine sample, though her medals and records were allowed to stand.

As a result, she forfeited all of her results from that time period, and agreed to a four-year suspension, until January 2014.

These reductions came after a number of European countries ruled that a four-year suspension violates an athlete's right to work.