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Marion Jones Falls Further

Posted Nov 24, 07 2:44 AM CST in Sports 

(Newser) – Disgraced sprinter Marion Jones will have her results in races dating back to September 2000 wiped from the record books, reports the AP, under orders from track and field's world governing body. She's also been ordered to give back $700,000 in prize money. The IAAF council decided to retroactively disqualify Jones from all competitions in the last seven years.

Jones has already resigned from the sport and returned her medals from the Sydney Olympics, after admitting taking the banned steroid known as "the clear." There's a chance other athletes—if they're actually clean themselves—could now move up in the record books and get some of the prize money she's expected to return, but they could face a long wait: Jones is said to be broke.

Sources Associated Press, Times (UK)

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The three-time Olympic gold medalist Marion Jones pauses as she addresses the media during a news conference outside the federal courthouse Friday, Oct. 5, 2007 in White Plains, N.Y. Jones plead guilty...   (Associated Press)
Marion Jones lands in the sand after her first jump in the women's long jump qualifying round at the U.S. Olympic track and field trials in Sacramento, Calif., in this Monday, July 12, 2004, file photo....   (Associated Press)
Olympic champion Marion Jones pauses after a question during a news conference in San Francisco, in this Wednesday, June 16, 2004, file photo. Jones' results dating to September 2000, including her Olympic...   (Associated Press)
Olympic gold medalist Marion Jones ponders a reporters question during a news conference in New York, seen in this Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2004, file photo. Jones' results dating to September 2000, including...   (Associated Press)
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