Jones camp challenges drug supplier Conte to take lie detector test

THE lawyer for Marion Jones has challenged the man who alleged he supplied the former Olympic sprint champion with performance-enhancing drugs to take a lie detector test.

Jones has filed a lawsuit seeking more than £12m ($25m) against Victor Conte, the founder of the Bay Area Laboratory Co-operative (BALCO), for defamation and false accusations of doping.

Conte has been charged with illegal steroid trafficking and money laundering after a federal investigation into BALCO, the company at the centre of a doping scandal which has implicated many of the United States’ top sportspeople.