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This isn't the kind of publicity Jones and Montgomery are used to. The pair, who have trained together since 1999, first got close in 2001 after an airline lost Montgomery's luggage and he borrowed Jones' shoes for a meet. (His feet are only one size bigger than hers...
Jones and her attorneys requested a meeting last week with investigators and learned the extent of the evidence against her. Their conclusion: it is too weak to keep her from competing in the Olympics. Jones has, in fact, threatened to sue if she is barred from Athens without a positive...
That kind of evidence might include the documents emerging these days from the offices of the Bay Area Laboratory Cooperative (BALCO), a San Francisco--area company that is the target of a federal investigation into steroid distribution and money laundering. BALCO is responsible for creating THG (tetrahydrogestrinone, for you Olympic...
The San Mateo Narcotics Task Force and the IRS raided BALCO last September and carted off enough boxes of evidence to ban four U.S. track-and-field athletes and start investigating nine more. Two weeks ago, the USADA got sprinter Kelli White to confess to using a series of banned...
Under equal scrutiny from the USADA is Jones' boyfriend, Montgomery. "[He is] getting smeared by rumor and innuendo," says his lawyer, Cristina Arguedas, who objects to the USADA's unprecedented threat to bar an athlete from competition without an admission of drug taking or a urine sample that tested positive...