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Posted: 28 April 2004 2242 hrs

Athletics: US sprinters Jones, Montgomery pull out of Osaka Grand Prix


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TOKYO : Triple Olympic champion Marion Jones and 100m world record-holder Tim Montgomery, both linked to a doping scandal, have pulled out of the IAAF Japan Grand Prix next month, organisers said.

The two Americans have said they were "not in top condition" and decided to "compete in a meeting where there is no time difference," according a statement issued by the organisers of the May 8 event in Osaka.

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The Osaka meeting will still showcase other big names including Olympic 100m champion Maurice Greene of the United States, world 110m hurdles champion Allen Johnson of the United States and Poland's Szymon Ziolkowski, who won the 2001 world hammer throw title.

On Monday, the US newspaper San Jose Mercury News reported that Jones and Montgomery were among 27 athletes named in a federal investigator's memo as having received the steroid tetrahydrogestrinone (THG) from BALCO Laboratories.

The daily said that the document is a summation of Internal Revenue Service agent Jeff Novitzky's interview of BALCO president Victor Conte, and that Conte volunteered the names.

Another US daily, the San Francisco Chronicle, reported on Sunday that Conte told federal investigators that he gave the superstars banned anabolic steroids.

Jones, 28, who won gold medals at 100m, 200m and the 4x400m relay in the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, has always denied any link with BALCO.

Montgomery holds the world record for the 100m dash. Investigators were told that he received the drugs before setting the record, the San Jose daily said.

Both Jones and Montgomery have repeatedly tested negative for steroid use.

- AFP



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[massmonster32]

What a crock 95% of all the Olympic athletes use stuff anyway cause everyone else is. So what now that they are gona be tested for sure versus random and they dont want to go makes them look guilty right off and an embarassment to the U.S. MM

 

[drgoodbody]

That is amusing because I remember seeing an interview with Marion Jones some time ago where she was talking about Flo Jo's records in 100, etc. and how Flo Jo was on something when she got those records. At the time I remember thinking, right and the rest of the pack is so clean.... bullshit. Ironic to see her ass being pinched now.

DrG

 

[Crimson Ghost]

Wasn't Jones the one who was just saying "I don't need drugs to beat anyone. I can beat athletes on drugs even though I'm not on drugs."

Dumb bitch....I hope she goes down.