VALPARAISO (Indiana), May 15: American sprinter Michelle Collins was reinstated Wednesday by the IAAF after serving three-plus years of a BALCO-related doping suspension.

Her ban was to expire in July, but it was reduced because Collins cooperated with the US Anti-Doping Agency and US government investigators. The 37-year-old Collins is eligible to try to qualify at the US Olympic trials next month.

“All I want to do now is return to the sport I love,” Collins said in a statement released by the Valparaiso Sports Law Clinic, which represented her. “I look forward to competing again.”

Collins was stripped of her 2003 world indoor and US championship 200-metre titles after an arbitration panel found she used banned substances provided by the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative or BALCO. She never tested positive but the panel concluded she used the drugs for several years.—AP