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Article: Jones gets USADA papers, still sticks to story
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- The Gazette
- Article date:
- May 25, 2004
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Track star Marion Jones, the five-time Olympic medalist, and her
lawyers met with U.S. Anti-Doping Agency officials in a downtown
Colorado Springs law office Monday.
The session was held at Jones' request after she challenged the
Colorado Springsbased USADA to retest blood or urine samples to prove
she is drug-free.
The meeting came in the midst of a widening doping scandal
involving U.S. track and field athletes linked to Bay Area lab BALCO,
whose owner, Victor Conte, has been indicted for allegedly
distributing steroids to elite athletes.
The three-hour meeting was held in a 13th-floor conference room of
the firm Holme Roberts & Owen. The law firm had a security guard
posted outside the ...