Book Signing - Diana (Williams) Muhammad, "True to Me" April 11, 2009

Diana (Williams) Muhammad was a Chicago track and field star who went on to international fame. The South Side native made two Olympic teams; the 1980 squad that Carter kept home because of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and the L.A. games in '84, where her past caught up with her.

Prior to the Olympic trials, she had been fed steroids by her coach, who claimed that they were vitamins. When her body started changing, she secretly stopped taking the pills. She discovered they were steroids, but was afraid to confront the coach. Instead she quit the dope and started conditioning and working out to maintain the strength she had acquired artificially.

After making the '84 team, she had to give two urine samples. The first came up positive for steroids, the second did not. But word of the first test leaked out, and she was blackballed from the team. She became an anti-steroids activist, whose senate testimony and cooperation with track and field investigators led to federal laws criminalizing steroid possession and use and a lifetime ban against Chuck DeBus, the coach who fed her steroids.

Diana Muhammad tells her story in "True to Me," a painfully candid account of the inner workings of the track and field establishment and Diana's struggle to regain her dignity and form after her bout with steroids.

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