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The laboratory that tested Marion Jones' A and B samples is expected to report to the World Anti-Doping Agency within two weeks on why the results did not match. ``The laboratory concerned will conduct a discovery analysis to know why this occurred,'' WADA director general David Howman said Saturday. ``In any case where the B sample does not match the A sample, we ask the laboratory for a full report. ...

The head of the World Anti-Doping Agency defended the doping tests that embroiled Marion Jones and Floyd Landis in high-profile cases, saying ``in the long run, the system works.'' WADA chairman Dick Pound said Thursday he has full confidence in EPO tests, which produced an initial positive finding for Jones but came back negative in the backup sample, as well as the testosterone tests that ensnared Tour de France winner ...

Marion Jones pulled out of this weekend's World Cup in Athletics in Athens and won't race again this season. The five-time Olympic medallist said her conditioning wasn't good enough for her to compete at a high level after missing more than a month of competition following her positive test for the banned endurance enhancer EPO. The 30-year-old sprinter was cleared to run again when her second sample tested negative. ``I ...

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. The B sample from the 30-year-old sprinter did not detect the banned endurance enhancer EPO, her lawyers said Wednesday. That means her initial positive result is thrown out. She was tested after winning the 100 metres at the U.S. track and field championships on June 23. Pound said he found the inconsistent tests ``disturbing.'' ``We ...

For American Marion Jones, the latest doping accusations provide an opportunity to inspire change in drug testing across sports. ``I hope really that this whole situation with me is used as a catalyst, a catalyst for more research and testing, a catalyst for better confidentiality,'' the five-time Olympic medallist said Friday on ABC's ``Good Morning America.'' After competing for years under a cloud of suspicion, Jones' ``A'' sample tested positive ...

Marion Jones' career of triumph and suspicion is back on track, and she plans to waste no time getting back to work. Jones is aiming to compete in the World Cup in Athletics in Athens Sept. 16-17 and a meet in Shanghai a week later, her coach Steve Riddick said late Thursday night. Riddick, in an interview earlier in the day, said he expected Jones to take the rest of ...

American Marion Jones is eligible to run at this weekend's World Athletics Final in Stuttgart after a backup doping test came up clean. ``If she asks the IAAF to compete, she can do so according to our rules,'' Helmut Digel, a vice-president of the sport's world governing body, said Thursday. The ``B'' sample taken from the former Olympic champion did not detect the banned endurance enhancer EPO, her lawyers said ...

The backup drug test for sprinter Marion Jones came back negative, clearing the five-time Olympic champion of doping allegations that have dogged her for the past month, her lawyer said Wednesday night. ``I am absolutely ecstatic,'' Jones said in a statement released by her lawyers. ``I have always maintained that I have never ever taken performance enhancing drugs, and I am pleased that a scientific process has now demonstrated that ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) _ Marion Jones' backup ``B'' drug sample from the U.S. track and field championships is to be tested late this week, her lawyer said Monday. The ``A'' sample from the June 23 test was positive for the banned endurance-enhancer EPO. If the second test is positive, the five-time Olympic medallist could face a minimum two-year ban from the sport. ``I don't expect we'll have the results right ...

_ Aug. 18, 2006: Sprinter Marion Jones' ``A'' sample tested positive for the banned endurance-boosting hormone EPO at the June U.S. track and field championships in Indianapolis, people familiar with the result tell the AP. The result of the ``B'' sample is pending. _ June 24, 2006: Jones withdraws from the 200 metres at the U.S. championships just before the preliminaries. She ...