fullname birth_place headercolor birth_date article_title name
chryste dionne gaines lawton , oklahoma , u.s. lightsteelblue september 14 , 1970 chryste gaines
 chryste gaines
chryste gaines

chryste dionne gaines -lrb- born september 14 , 1970 in lawton , oklahoma -rrb- is an american athlete who competed mainly in the 100 metres .
a 1988 graduate of south oak cliff high school in dallas , texas , gaines competed for the united states in the 1996 summer olympics held in atlanta , georgia , u.s. , in the 4 x 100 metres where she won the gold medal with teammates olympic 100m champion gail devers , inger miller and gwen torrence who won the olympic 200m in barcelona and a bronze in the 100m in atlanta .
she returned to sydney for the 2000 summer olympics as the sole survivor of the 4 x 100 meters , this time she lined up with double sprint gold medalist marion jones and fellow americans torri edwards and nanceen perry but could only come away with the bronze medal .
in 2003 , gaines was issued a public warning and had her results disqualified for the detection of modafinil .
the same year she was investigated as part of the balco scandal and in 2004 she received a two year doping ban .
recently , she -lrb- with her other 4x100 meter teammates -rrb- had been asked to return her bronze medal won at the sydney olympic games in 2000 as well as other achievements due to steroid use .
she and 5 other members of the 2000 team would successfully appeal the ioc 's decision to force them to return their 2000 medals in july 2010 .
