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Marion Jones admitted that she took steroids before the 2000 Sydney games last year
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April 10, 2008, 15:00
Team mates of disgraced American Olympic champion Marion Jones paid the price for her use of banned substances when they were stripped of the relay medals they won at the 2000 Sydney Games today.
The executive board of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) ruled that the US teams that won gold in the 4x400m and bronze in the 4x100m would lose their medals after Jones admitted she had used steroids in 2000.
"The US Olympic Committee will be asked to return the medals and certificates," IOC spokesperson Giselle Davies said. "The IOC acknowledges that the three other athletes have paid the price for Marion Jones's guilt."
Jones, who was the first woman to win five athletics medals - three of them gold - had already been stripped of her medals.
Jearl Miles-Clark, Monique Hennagan and LaTasha Colander won the 4x400m with Jones while Chryste Gaines, Torri Edwards and Nanceen Perry placed third in the 4x100m in Sydney.
The IOC executive board is yet to decide how the medals that Jones and her team mates won in Sydney would be re-allocated, Davies added. – Reuters
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