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| May 21, 2006 | Sunday | Rabi-us-Sani 22, 1427 |
Athletics: Jones set to compete in European meetings
RALEIGH (North Carolina), May 20: Triple Olympic gold medallist Marion Jones will compete in Europe this year after a successful 100 metres in Mexico last weekend, her manager said on Friday.
“She has been accepted and will run in Hengelo (May 28) and in the Golden League meet in Brussels (Aug 25),” Charles Wells said from Texas.
Several major European promoters decided last year not to invite Jones and former partner Tim Montgomery to meetings because of their links to the BALCO doping scandal.
“We are also holding discussions with Ostrava (May 30), Athens (July 3) and the Golden League meet in Paris (July 8),” Wells added.
He said Jones, 30, would run a 100-metre in both Hengelo and Brussels. She has run sparingly in Europe over the past two years, competing only at Hengelo and in Italy last season.
Montgomery has since been banned from the sport for two years and stripped of his 2002 100 metres world record by the Court of Arbitration for Sport.
Jones has never been charged with a doping offence and has never failed a doping test although she has been under scrutiny by the US Anti-Doping Agency (USADA).
She has repeatedly denied using performance-enhancing drugs.
She clocked 11.06 seconds for 100 metes near Veracruz, Mexico, last Saturday in her first race in 11 months.
The time, set at altitude, is the third fastest of the season.—Reuters
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