BRUSSELS, Belgium -- U.S. sprinter Kelli White escaped a suspension that would have kept her out of the Athens Olympics, and she vowed Wednesday to use all means possible to hold on to her two World Championship gold medals.

Hours after track and field's world governing body said White tested positive for a minor stimulant that didn't merit a suspension, White announced her plans to run the 100 meters at the Van Damme Memorial here Friday.

However, it could still cost her the two championship titles.

"I do intend to fight to keep the medals," White said, adding there was more on the line. "My reputation being tarnished is worse than losing the medals or even the two-year ban."

White insisted she deserved no punishment for using modafinil, a drug she said was prescribed for the sleep disorder narcolepsy and isn't specifically mentioned on the anti-doping list.

Track officials ruled it could be a related substance covered by its rules.

Istvan Gyulai, general secretary of the International Association of Athletics Federations, said the IAAF will review White's medical records and decide Monday whether she committed a doping offense.

If the IAAF rules White was doping, then it will ask U.S. anti-doping officials to begin disciplinary procedures -- a process that with appeals could take a year or more.

"I don't believe there is much probability that there was no doping because this substance was found in the athlete's body," Gyulai told The Associated Press in a telephone interview.

If the IAAF had ruled the drug belonged to a category of much more potent stimulants, she would have faced a possible two-year suspension.

Wednesday's decision by the IAAF does not impact White's eligibility for the Olympics "because the seriousness of this substance requires only a public warning and disqualification" from the World Championships, Gyulai said.

White planned to meet Thursday with IAAF President Lamine Diack and Gyulai in Brussels to discuss the issue.

White tested positive for modafinil after her victory in the 100 meters on Aug. 24. Her test after the 200 later in the week came out negative, which White says showed she had no malicious intent.

"At some point you have no option," she said. "If you need your medicine, you need to take it. I felt at that time I needed to take that to feel normal and be at the same speed as my competitors."

If White is stripped of her medals, American runner Torri Edwards will be awarded the 100-meter gold, with Zhanna Block of Ukraine taking silver and Bahamas' Chandra Sturrup, the bronze.

The new 200-meter champion would be Russia's Anastaiya Kapachinskaya. Edwards would take silver and France's Muriel Hurtis the bronze. That would give France, the host nation, a total of eight medals, the third-highest of the championships.

White set personal best times in both races -- 10.85 seconds in the 100 and 22.05 in the 200.

The overall medals table would also be altered, with America's tally of 20 medals dropping to 18, leaving Russia as the biggest winner with 19 medals. Russia could also move up from six to seven gold medals overall, with America dropping from 10 golds to nine.

Besides losing her medals, White would lose $60,000 per gold in prize money.

"This is not even about the money. It is about the medals. I worked very hard for those," she said.

If White loses the medals, she would be the biggest track name stripped of gold at a major championship since Ben Johnson at the 1988 Seoul Olympics.

Now that she is not suspended, White will run in Brussels on Friday, before going to Monaco for the Grand Prix finals Sep. 13-14 and the Moscow Challenge in Russia a week later.