Government would back move to punish Jones
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THE Australian Government said yesterday it would support any moves from the IOC to strip US sprint queen Marion Jones of the five medals she won at the Sydney Games if she was found guilty of a doping offence.
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Track star Marion Jones was sentenced in federal court Friday to six months in prison, two years of probation and community service.
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People who avoid paying fines will face a wide range of new penalties, ministers are set to announce on Monday.
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A bid to amend plans to make inciting racial hatred a crime is defeated by the government.
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By Frank Ahrens, Washington Post Staff Writer  When the government's attempt to relax media ownership rules was defeated in court two years ago, some hailed it as a victory against putting too much power in the hands of too few media lords.
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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.
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Even if indicted BALCO chief Victor Conte has the doping goods on sprinter Marion Jones, it's unclear whether the International Olympic Committee can revoke the five medals she won in Sydney in 2000. The IOC charter says that decisions can be changed only within three years after the closing ceremonies. The question is whether awarding a medal constitutes a decision.
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World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) chief Dick Pound says that if US sprinter Marion Jones has taken banned substances she should be stripped of all her medals regardless of when she won them.
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Olympic star Marion Jones says she will sue over drug allegations.
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Marion Jones could be back in action next weekend if the international track and field federation accepts a lab result that clears her of doping. ``If she asks the IAAF to compete, she can do so according to our rules," vice president Helmut Digel said yesterday, after one of Jones's lawyers said that her backup ``B" sample came up negative ...
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Guardian letter points to success of Labour move as Tories insist they back the policy.
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The Welsh Assembly Government could start the process to outlaw smacking children, a legal expert claims.
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Sinn Fein will resist any attempt to penalise it in the wake of Northern Ireland Chief Constable Hugh Orde's claim that the IRA carried out the 26.5 million Northern Bank robbery, Gerry Adams warned today.
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Britain's highest court gave its backing to a government scheme that places suspected extremists under a form of house arrest without trial.
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Prosecutors and defense lawyers told a federal judge Wednesday that former Olympic champion Marion Jones should not be sentenced to more than the six-month maximum they've already agreed upon.
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World Anti-Doping Agency chairman Dick Pound wants to investigate why Marion Jones' backup sample came up negative, clearing her of a positive doping test.
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The man convicted of the Lockerbie bombing claims the UK Government is trying to interfere with his appeal.