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IOC strips Marion Jones of 5 medals - Yahoo! NewsPublished by
By STEPHEN WILSON, AP Sports Writer Wed Dec 12, 8:43 AM ET LAUSANNE, Switzerland - The IOC formally stripped Marion Jones of her five Olympic medals Wednesday, wiping her name from the record books following her admission that she was a drug cheat. The International Olympic Committee also banned the disgraced American athlete from attending next year's Beijing Olympics in any capacity and said it could bar her from all future games. Jones had already handed back the three gold medals and two bronze she won at the 2000 Sydney Olympics. Last month, the International Association of Athletics Federations erased all of Jones' results dating to September 2000, but it was up to the IOC to formally disqualify her and erase her Olympic medals. The decision was announced by IOC president Jacques Rogge at the end of a three-day executive board meeting. Jones won gold medals in the... Read the full article at: news.yahoo.com
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