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Article: Aths: Jones banned for two years - USADA
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- October 9, 2007
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AAP Sports News (Australia)
10-09-2007
Aths: Jones banned for two years - USADA
By Gene Cherry
SALVO, North Carolina, Oct 8 Reuters - Disgraced sprinter Marion Jones has accepted
a two-year ban after admitting to the use of a prohibited substance and has relinquished
the five Olympic medals she won at the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games, the US Anti-Doping Agency
(USADA) said on Monday.
After years of denial, the American sprinter told a US court on Friday that she had
taken the banned substance known as the "clear" from September 2000 through to July 2001
in violation of the rules of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF)
and USADA.
Jones, 31, also pleaded guilty to ...