Justin Gatlin returns to track and field, hoping to for second life

By Nick Zaccardi, SI.com

ATLANTA -- Justin Gatlin knew he'd be labeled a cheat after failing a drug test and being banned from track and field. He just didn't know his orange Escalade would be branded, too.

The sprinter awoke one morning in his native Pensacola, Fla., shortly after being disgraced to find his truck scarred.

"Steroid user," it read.

"In my hometown, that happened in my hometown," Gatlin said last week, still with a sense of disbelief four years later. "That really broke me down because I felt like my home, my neighborhood, my parents' neighborhood was a safe haven for me."