Deeja Youngquist

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Deeja Youngquist, a former air-traffic controller, [Photograph]elevated her running to a new level when she finished 10th overall (second American) in a time of 2:29:01 in the 2003 Chicago Marathon. Shortly afterwards she failed a drugs test for r-EPO on 3/2/2005.

On May 19th, 2006 [News Article]it was announced that she had dropped her appeal against her ban.

She is currently coached by Teddy Mitchell, [Interview]

Fellow cheat Eddy Hellybucyk was part of the same training group and also failed a test for r-EPO [USADA - Link]

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