Ledgers gathered in the Balco steroid investigation outline the detailed doping programme of disgraced sprinter Marion Jones, the San Francisco Chronical reported on Saturday.
The newspaper cited court documents filed by prosecutors in New York in support of their case against Jones, who has pleaded guilty to lying to investigators about her illicit drug use.
The ledgers and calendars were seized in a 2003 raid of Balco — the Bay Area Laboratory Cooperative supplement business fingered as the source of designer steroid THG.
The documents detail the doping regimen Jones followed before the Sydney Olympics, where her five medals included three golds.
The International Olympic Committee stripped Jones of those medals on December 13, after Jones pleaded guilty in October to making two counts of false statements to federal agents.
According to the Chronicle, the documents show that Jones regularly used the Balco product ”the clear” — since identified as the synthetic steroid THG — as well as human growth hormone, insulin and the blood-doping drug EPO.
According to the documents Jones had her blood tested at a private laboratory to insure she could beat Olympic dope tests.
Prosecutors say Jones told a series of ”calculated lies” to federal agents to shield her drug use and connection to Balco, the report added.
Jones also pleaded guilty to lying to the government when she was questioned about her knowledge of a check-fraud scheme that involved her former partner Tim Montgomery — another disgraced sprinter — and track coach Steve Riddick.
Prosecutors have recommended that Jones serve six months in jail, the Chronicle reported.
She is due to be sentenced on January 11. – AFP
