Campaign launched to win Dame Kelly gold medal she claims she was cheated out of

Sunday, 24 January 2010

By Duncan Mackay

January 24 - A campaign has been launched to get the silver medal Britain's Dame Kelly Holmes won in the 1500 metres World Indoor Championships in Birmingham seven years ago upgraded to gold after the winner, Regina Jacobs (pictured), was exposed as a drugs cheat. 

The American pipped Dame Kelly to the title at the National Indoor Arena in March 2003 but later that year tested positive for the same designer anabolic steroid as Britain's Dwain Chambers and was banned for four years