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Track coach Trevor Graham was convicted today of lying to investigators about his relationship with a steroids dealer, and the U.S. government is now 2-0 in prosecuting people associated with the BALCO performance-enhancing drug ring.

The first person to be convicted at trial was former cyclist Tammy Thomas, who was found guilty of lying to a federal grand jury when she denied taking steroids. Several others, including BALCO founder Victor Conte (pictured), chemist Patrick Arnold, Olympic sprinter Marion Jones and personal trainer Greg Anderson have taken plea deals. Other athletes, including Barry Bonds, are expected to go on trial this year or next.

Graham was the original BALCO whistle-blower. In 2003 he anonymously sent a syringe containing the designer steroid THG to the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, which until then didn't know THG, also known as "The Clear," existed. In the early days of the BALCO story Graham was lauded for turning in the evidence, but as more details emerged about Graham encouraging his own athletes to use performance-enhancing drugs, he became a target of prosecutors.

Maurice Greene became the latest high-profile U.S. Olympian dragged into the doping muck over the weekend, clouding the world of track a little bit more as we move toward Beijing. The New York Times article containing the allegation against Greene, which he's denied, also hints that it could just be the tip of the iceberg as the case against Marion Jones's coach, Trevor Graham, makes its way through court.

The United States Olympic Committee doesn't see that as any reason to worry about athletes using performance enhancing drugs during the Summer Olympics, though. U.S.O.C. Chairman Peter Ueberroth and chief executive Jim Scherr addressed concerns about their team, although they had slightly different levels of conviction.

"[With] the changes we've made to our doping programs, the protocols we've had in place, we're very confident that this team is clean and we'll field a clean team in Beijing," said Scherr. "Of course there's no way we can guarantee anything. But we feel very good about this team and the progress we've made [against] doping."

"This will be a clean team," Ueberroth said.

Scherr went on to call the doping problems part of the past when it's quite clear, from cycling to weightlifting to track, that it is very much a problem of the present. It's great to fight against it, it's great to strive for a clean team but shouldn't Ueberroth know better than to guarantee a clean team?