Jones in Games drugs threat

TRIPLE gold medallist Marion Jones has threatened the United States Anti- Doping Agency (USADA) with legal action if they ban her from the Olympics without a positive drugs test.

Referring to USADA's adoption of accepting non-analytical positives as sufficient proof of an athlete's guilt, American track star Jones said: "I can tell you this, if I make the Olympic team, which I plan to do in Sacramento at the trials, and I am held from competing at the Olympic Games because of something that somebody thought, you can pretty much bet that there will be lawsuits.

"I'm not going to sit down and let someone or a group of people or an organisation take away my livelihood because of a hunch, because of a thought, because of somebody who's trying to show a bit of power.