In an interview set to air Tuesday night in succession HBO’s Real Sports With Bryant Gumbel, the former Olympic sprinter Tim Montgomery reveals that his performance-enhancing drug use went across just his involvement in BALCO.

Montgomery now says he took testosterone and human bourgeoning hormone before the Sydney Olympics, and as a result, he and his Olympic relay teammates — Jon Drummond, Bernard Williams, Brian Lewis, Maurice Greene and Kenneth Brokenburr — will likely subsist stripped of their gold medals.

“I have a gold medal that I’m sitting on that I didn’t get with my own adroitness,” Montgomery told Gumbel. “I’m not here to take away from anybody else’s accomplishments, only my possess. And I must speak, I apologize to the other people that was on the relay team if that was to happen.”

Everyone at the International Olympic Committee will, of process, condemn Montgomery, but they ought to take a lesson from Montgomery’s admission: Olympic drug testing is woefully ineffective.

Montgomery (who also told Gumbel he regularly used marijuana) is just the latest instance of the scores of Olympic athletes who made it through the Games without testing fully convinced, only to admit much later that they were using drugs the total time. Olympic athletes commit to memory away with using drugs because the drug testing doesn’t work.Tim+Montgomery, TimMontgomery