Crystal Cox
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Crystal Cox is an American
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 track and field athlete and was a contestant on the seventeenth season
Survivor: Gabon
Survivor: Gabon — Earth's Last Eden is the seventeenth season of the American CBS competitive reality television series Survivor. The premiere aired September 25, 2008, with the first two episodes screened back-to-back....

 of the reality show Survivor
Survivor (U.S. TV series)
Survivor is an American version of the Survivor reality television game show, itself derived from the Swedish television series Expedition Robinson originally created in 1997 by Charlie Parsons. The series premiered on May 31, 2000 on CBS...

.

Olympics

She won a gold medal in the women's 4x400 m relay at the 2004 Athens Summer Olympics. In Athens she ran in the preliminary round but not in the final. DeeDee Trotter
DeeDee Trotter
De'Hashia Tonnek Trotter is an American athlete.She currently lives in Orlando, Florida, and trains at the University of Central Florida under Head Coach and former University Of Tennessee college coach Caryl Smith Gilbert.In 2007 she won the American championship in the 400m in a personal best...

, Monique Henderson
Monique Henderson
Monique Henderson is a track and field athlete, competing internationally for the United States. She was a gold medalist in the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, China....

, Sanya Richards and Monique Hennagan
Monique Hennagan
Monique Hennagan is an American athlete, who mainly competes in the 400 meters. She won her first relay medal at the 1999 World Indoor Championships and her second in 2003....

 were the athletes who ran in the final. In 2004, she was the American indoor 200 m champion.

Steroid Use

On January 29, 2010, the Associated Press and ESPN.com reported that Cox admitted to using anabolic steroids from 2001-2004. As a result, she will forfeit all of her results from that time period, and has agreed to a four-year suspension. The suspension will last until January 2014. IAAF has recommended that the whole U.S. women's 2004 Olympic 4x400 metres relay team will be stripped of the medals.

Survivor: Gabon

Cox was one of the contestants in the reality series Survivor: Gabon
Survivor: Gabon
Survivor: Gabon — Earth's Last Eden is the seventeenth season of the American CBS competitive reality television series Survivor. The premiere aired September 25, 2008, with the first two episodes screened back-to-back....

, which premiered in the fall of 2008.

Cox lost 12 of the 14 tribal challenges, though she made it to the final six. Her main alliance consisted of Kenny Hoang
Ken Hoang
Ken "Kenny" Hoang is a Vietnamese American professional electronic sports player who plays Super Smash Bros. Melee and has earned $50,000+ USD doing so....

, Sugar Kiper
Jessica Kiper
Jessica Michele Kiper is an American actress and singer. Kiper was also a runner-up contestant on Survivor: Gabon where she placed third. She was more commonly known to the viewing audience during her run on Survivor as Sugar. She returned to Survivor to compete on the show's 20th season:...

, Susie Smith, and Matty Whitmore. On the December 11, 2008 episode, Cox was voted out and became the fifth member of the jury.

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