IOC makes British women's 400m relay team wait for 2004 Athens bronze medal upgrade It had been expected that the International Olympic Committee would decide whether to disqualify the victorious American team at its two-day executive board meeting, which begins in Lausanne today, but an administrative delay means the waiting goes on for the quartet of Donna Fraser, Catherine Murphy, Lee McConnell and Christine Ohuruogu. In July, their hopes of being awarded a belated medal were raised when the IOC stripped American runner Crystal Cox of her gold following her admission that she used performance-enhancing drugs from 2001 to 2004. She was banned for four years in 2010. Cox ran in the heats the relay in Athens and, under the rules of the International Association of Athletics Federations, her drug violation means the entire United States team should forfeit their medals. But the IOC stopped short of disqualifying the whole team at its July meeting and asked the IAAF for clarification that Cox was definitely doping at the time of the Athens Olympics. That information has still not been made available to the IOC because, according to the IAAF, the United States Anti-Doping Agency has yet to provide the relevant legal documents relating to Cox's case, blaming the backlog of work in the wake of the Lance Armstrong case. Should the American squad be disqualified, Russia would be promoted to Olympic champions, with Jamaica being awarded silver and Britain bronze, though the earliest the issue can be resolved is the IOC's next executive board meeting in the spring.