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Column: Time for IOC to make right a 40-year-old wrong

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Shirley Babashoff has a bunch of silver medals.

They should be gold.

There's still time to correct this travesty.

The timing, in fact, has never been better.

"People are still doing steroids," Babashoff said Friday during an appearance at the U.S. Olympic swimming trials. "They need to know what the consequences are."

With the sporting world embroiled in another massive doping scandal, this one involving claims that Russia ran a state-sanctioned system for juicing its athletes, USA Swimming has stirred up a 40-year-old hornet's nest by producing a documentary film, "The Last Gold.