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MARION JONES RETURNS HER OLYMPIC MEDALS: Plus, track's governing body says she is 'one of the biggest frauds in sporting history.'
*Disgraced track star Marion Jones has returned the five medals she won at the 2000 Olympics, just days after the International Olympic Committee said it would move quickly to strip her of the medals after she pleaded guilty Friday to using steroids.
Her lawyer, Henry DePippo, said Monday that Jones had turned in the three gold and two bronze medals won at the Sydney games, but declined to say where they are now.
"She apologizes to her competitors and hopes the record books will be amended to accurately reflect their achievements," a source, who did not wish to be identified, told Reuters.
Meanwhile, track-and-field's governing body has expressed "disappointed" in Jones' admitted use of performance-enhancing drugs.
"If she had trusted to her own natural gifts and allied them to self sacrifice and hard work I sincerely believe that she could have been an honest champion at the Sydney Games," said Lamine Diack, president of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), in a statement. "Now, instead, Marion Jones will be remembered as one of the biggest frauds in sporting history."
In addition to her Olympic medals, Jones also won a gold (100 meters) and bronze (long jump) at the 1999 worlds in Seville, Spain, and two gold (200 and 4x100) and a silver (100) at the 2001 world championships in Edmonton, Alberta.
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