US sprinter Tyson Gay attends a news conference for the World Athletics Championships in Daegu, South Korea, in this 2011 file photo. Gay confirmed this weekend that he has tested positive for a banned substance. (Matt Dunham/AP/File)
2:27 pm ET -Top US sprinter Tyson Gay acknowledged that he has tested positive for a banned substance, rocking the track-and-field world. But the news also points to how much has changed in antidoping.
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