EX-DRUG CZAR: USOC TESTING 'ROTTEN'

Exum: Half Not Punished When Results Were Positive

DENVER - Sometime next month, Dr. Wade Exum
expects to open boxes of documents that will identify U.S. athletes who tested
positive for performance-enhancing drugs, but were not punished
by the U.S. Olympic Committee.

Exum is reluctant to take the drastic step, but believes it
might be necessary to change what he called a
"rotten-to-the-core system."

Exum, director of the USOC's Drug Control
Administration for nine years before resigning in June 2000, said the USOC, in
its quest to win medals, evaded its responsibility to discipline
athletes for using banned substances. He also said half of all athletes
who tested positive for drugs were not punished.

One month after resigning from the USOC, Exum filed a
lawsuit claiming USOC leaders hampered his anti-drug battle and
denied him promotions because he is black.

The USOC has denied the allegations.

While Exum and the USOC await a trial date, the
documents could be made public within a week after a pretrial conference in
Denver on Aug. 5.

Several news organizations, including the Associated
Press and USA Today, had argued successfully against a USOC
motion to seal the drug-test records.

"I'm not interested in burning athletes," Exum said in an
interview Friday, " ... [but] if the documents become public and the
names are in there, they're there."

Exum said as many as 100 athletes tested positive
each year during his time as the USOC's drug czar.

Last week, USOC spokesman Mike Moran told Sports
Illustrated that the committee denies "any cover-ups or
misrepresentations on our part in the drug-testing procedure."