All of Marion Jones's results dating to September 2000, including her Olympic and world championship titles, were annulled Friday because of doping. Track and field's governing body also told her to return her estimated $700,000 US in prize money from that period.
The International Association of Athletics Federation recommended that Jones's relay teammates be disqualified and lose their medals from the 2000 Sydney Olympics.
Marion Jones has admitted to taking a designer steroid from September 2000 to July 2001.
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The IAAF council also upheld the two-year ban imposed on Jones by U.S. officials. She retired last month after pleading guilty to lying to federal investigators in 2003. Jones admitted she had taken the designer steroid "the clear" from September 2000 to July 2001.
Jones won gold medals in the 100 metres, 200 and the 1,600-metre relay in Sydney, as well as bronzes in the 400 relay and long jump. At the 2001 worlds, she won the 200 and the silver medal in the 100.
Jones has returned her five Olympic medals and agreed to forfeit all results dating to Sept. 1, 2000. But it's still up to the IAAF and International Olympic Committee to change the record books and revise the medals.
The IAAF said Jones was disqualified from all competitions since Sept. 1, 2000, with all results erased. That includes all relays, not just individual events.
The IAAF added Jones must return all awards, medals and money from that period. IAAF spokesman Nick Davies said Jones can't compete again unless she repays approximately $700,000.
Athletes who are eventually upgraded stand to receive a share of Jones's prize money. However, it's uncertain whether they will ever get the money because Jones is said to be broke.
Even though Jones has retired, she is officially suspended until Oct. 7, 2009. Jones would have to give the IAAF 12 months' notice if she wants to return to competition after the ban, Davies said.
The IAAF did not take a position on whether Greek sprinter Katerina Thanou should be upgraded to the Olympic gold medal in the 100 metres. That will be up to the IOC, which has authority over Olympic medals.
"We recommend that (the) IOC take the final decision," IAAF general secretary Pierre Weiss said.
Thanou and fellow Greek runner Kostas Kenteris failed to show for drug tests on the eve of the 2004 Athens Games, claiming they were injured in a motorcycle accident and eventually pulled out. They were later banned for two years.
IOC president Jacques Rogge has said there will be no automatic upgrade, and that only "clean" athletes will be moved up in the medals. The IOC is considering whether to leave the 100-metre winner's place vacant.
IAAF president Lamine Diack, who has branded Jones "one of the biggest frauds in sporting history," was at the meeting in Monte Carlo but did not speak to reporters.
Pauline Davis-Thompson of the Bahamas was the silver medallist behind Jones in the 200 metres, while Tatiana Kotova of Russia was fourth in the long jump. They could now be awarded gold and bronze by the IOC.
Jearl Miles-Clark, Monique Hennagan, Tasha Colander-Richardson and Andrea Anderson won golds as part of the 1,600-metre relay in Sydney. Chryste Gaines, Torri Edwards, Nanceen Perry and Passion Richardson were on the 400-metre relay team.
It's now up to the IOC to decide if Jamaica gets gold in the 1,600 relay and France bronze in the 400.
As for the 2001 worlds in Edmonton, Alta., Debbie Ferguson of the Bahamas moves up to gold in the 200, Latasha Jenkins of the United States to silver and Cydonie Mothersill of the Cayman Islands to bronze.
In the 100, won by Zhanna Block of Ukraine, Thanou would move from bronze to silver, and Chandra Sturrup of the Bahamas from fourth to bronze.
"There is awareness of the situation for sure," Davies said. "But there is also the fact there is no reason we have at the moment why she (Thanou) shouldn't have the medal."
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