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Jones should lose all medals if guilfty, says WADA
Dick Pound, chief of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) said on Monday that American woman sprinter Marion Jones should be stripped of all her medals if she is to be convicted of taking banned substances. Speaking to reporters in Athens after the controversial U.S. laboratory claimed Jones regularly used drugs to enhance her performance, Pound said it was up to the U.S. anti-doping agency USADA to make the next move. "If she is guilty then she should be stripped of all her medals and banned for two years," Pound said in Athens. Under International Olympic Committee (IOC) rules, athletes canonly be stripped of their medals if they are caught within three years of the event. Jones who won three gold medals at the Sydney Olympics in 2000, failed to win a medal in Athens having not qualified for the individual sprint events. Last week, Conte, who is facing criminal charges on supplying illegal drugs to athletes through his Balco lab in San Francisco, said he watched her using steroids having introduced her to a doping programme before the 2000 Olympics. USADA investigations have led to the suspension of a number of athletes including women's world sprint champion Kelli White and twice Olympic relay gold medallist Alvin Harrison. Jones's partner, Tim Montgomery, the 100m world record holder, is appealing against a possible life ban for doping violations. His hearing will be heard in San Francisco in June.
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