Olympic gold medalist Tim Montgomery has been fined and sentenced to 46 months in jail. This is for check fraud in the hundreds of thousands.
With his fighting heroin addiction for the past few years it seems that his life from 2002 has spiraled out of control. He was also selling heroine at the same time.
Since his amazing wins in the Olympic games in which he won the Gold in the 400 relay in 2000. In the same event in 1996 he won the silver medal. The year 2002 this man set a world record in the 100 meter dash. Being clocked at 9.78 seconds.
Fame seems to not have faired him well. He stated that he was listening to everyone telling him what to do. Going on to say that they even told him what to eat for breakfast.
Even though this may be true, it would appear that between the drugs and fading fame he still had the control to know right from wrong.
Maybe spending time in jail he will come to his senses and turn his life around. At 33 he has plenty of time to do this.
I smell a best selling book or maybe a movie of the week.
