Randy Barnes denied today that he had ever used steroids, joining another U.S. world record-holder, Butch Reynolds, in discounting positive drug tests that could keep them out of the 1992 Olympics. "There's no way that sample is mine," Barnes told the Charleston (W.Va.) Daily Mail. I don't take steroids. I'm 5-10 and 160 pounds. When asked if he was surprised by the results, which came after his record-setting run at the 1989 World Championships in Rome, Italy, where he became the first man to run a 4-minute mile indoors, Barnes said, "I wasn't really paying attention to what other people were doing." Reynolds, who won the gold medal in the 800 meters at the 1988 Seoul Games with a world-record time of 1:45.4, also denied the allegations. "I didn't even know there was anything wrong with steroid testing until about a year ago when I read an article about it in The New York Times," Reynolds said. "It just shows you how ignorant some people are. I would never do something like that and neither would Randy." Both athletes were tested during the World Championships, but because there was no policy in place at the time for indoor track events, they were not required to provide samples for those races.