LONDON, May 23: Former triple Olympic champion Marion Jones, who is not welcome at most of Europe’s leading meetings, may compete in Hengelo, Netherlands, on Sunday. “I hope she will compete,” meeting director Fedde Zwanenburg said on Monday. “On Wednesday there will be a final decision.”

The Euro-Meetings group, whose members organise nearly 50 meetings, decided this month it would invite neither Jones nor her partner Tim Montgomery to their meetings because of the American pair’s association with the BALCO laboratory in California.

After a federal investigation into BALCO, world 100 metres record holder Montgomery has been charged with serious doping offences by the US Anti-Doping Agency. His appeal against a possible life ban will be heard by the Court of Arbitration for Sport in San Francisco next month.—Reuters