Even though she’s handed back her Olympic medals, the shaming of Marion Jones isn’t over yet. International Olympic and track and field officials are prepared to wipe her name officially from the record books, strip her of her world championship medals, pursue her for prize money and appearance fees and possibly ban her from future Olympics in any capacity.The IOC and International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) said yesterday they will move forward with their procedures for disqualifying Jones and revising the results from the Olympics and world championships. The IAAF has authority over results at the Olympics, while the IOC controls the medals.The IOC, which opened an investigation into Jones after she was linked to the BALCO steroids scandal in 2004, can act now that she has confessed and surrendered the medals. After long denying she ever had used performance-enhancing drugs, Jones admitted Friday that she’d taken the designer steroid “the clear” from September 2000 to July 2001.“We now need to have the official process of disqualification and may be other measures like non-eligibility for future games and so on,” IOC vice-president Thomas Bach, a German lawyer who heads the IOC’s three-man disciplinary commission on the case said.The panel will make recommendations to the ruling IOC executive board, which next meets in December in Lausanne, Switzerland. Under standard procedures, the medal standings are adjusted so the silver medalist moves up to gold if the winner is disqualified for doping or other reasons. All of the other finishers would also move up a spot.“I will not speculate on the outcome, but the general rule is the second-place finisher moves up,” Bach said.
