Usatf Bans Shot Star

Three-time NCAA shot put champion Brent Noon has been suspended for four years by USA Track & Field after testing positive for an illegal drug.

The out-of-competition test, performed March 18, 1996, turned up traces of the steroid methandieone in Noon’s sample, USATF said.

Noon, 25, won national collegiate titles for Georgia from 1992-94. He won the U.S. championship in 1995 and placed fifth at the World Outdoor Championships.

Noon won a $983,000 suit against USATF on Sept. 26, 1994, after he claimed track and field’s national governing body illegally banned him from competition for a month in 1992 when he did not appear for a random drug test.