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[Definitie:] "An ergogenic aid is any substance or phenomenon that enhances performance."
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0 4 - 1 2 - 2 0 0 4 IOC could strip Marion Jones' Olympic medals
By STEPHEN WILSON
LONDON -- Marion Jones should be stripped of her five Olympic medals if allegations that she used banned drugs before the 2000 Sydney Games are true, World Anti-Doping Agency chief Dick Pound said Friday.
Victor Conte, head of the lab that allegedly provided steroids and other banned drugs to elite athletes, told ABC's "20/20" that he gave Jones performance-enhancing drugs and watched as she injected herself with human growth hormone.
Pound said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press that Jones' medals should be taken away if Conte is telling the truth.
International Olympic Committee president Jacques Rogge said he was aware of Conte's accusations, but that it was too early to speculate about stripping the medals.
"I hope the truth will emerge," he said in Croatia, where he was attending a meeting of European Olympic officials. "We want the truth. We want to know what happened and the more we know, the better."
Any decision on the medals would be taken by the IOC executive board. Pound, a senior IOC member, said he expects Rogge to take a tough stand based on his "zero tolerance" policy on doping.
"Maybe in the past we weren't rigorous enough in going back after the East Germans," Pound said, referring to the communist state's doping program in the 1970s and '80s. "But there's a new president in town, and he's much more unequivocal on this whole question."
Whether the medals can be revoked could depend on an interpretation of the IOC's rule on statute of limitations. Under the IOC charter, Olympic decisions can be challenged within three years of the games' closing ceremony. The Sydney Olympics ended more than four years ago, on Oct. 1, 2000. But Pound said that rule may not apply, because there was no actual decision in this case. "We will find a way to deal with that," Pound said. "It's arguable there was no decision taken, just a list of results."
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