Sprinter Marian Jones has returned those five medals which she won in 2000 Sydney Olympic games and accepted the two year ban said to her admitting that she had used performance enhancing drugs according to the US Anti Doping Agency. The five relinquished medals include three gold and two bronzes. They will be returned to International Olympic Committee for awarding to another appropriate winners.
USOC have also called on US athletes the players who've played in the medal winning 4*100 and 4*400 meter relays with Jones in the same Olympic to return their medals saying they won unfairly. Jones admitted that the drugs came from Balco laboratory at the centre of US sport's biggest doping scandal and that was give to her my her former coach. Her two year ban began Monday and officials said that they will request the return of more than $100,000 which Jones have received by winning the game.
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