Two of Jones's Sydney medals reallocated

American Marion Jones's 200 gold medal and long jump bronze from the 2000 Sydney Olympics were reallocated by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) yesterday.

Jones was stripped in 2007 of her 100, 200 and 4x400 gold medals and her long jump and 4x100 bronzes after admitting using banned drugs. She served a six-month jail sentence for lying to federal prosecutors about her steroid use.

However, the IOC refused to give her 100 gold medal to silver medallist Katerina Thanou due to the Greek's own involvement in doping. Thanou missed a third doping test on the eve of the Athens 2004 Games.

"The IOC believes we have a strong moral case and good legal case for that," said IOC spokesman Mark Adams. "She (Thanou) disgraced herself and the Olympic movement by avoiding three doping tests."

Thanou, who was banned from competing in the 2008 Beijing Games for bringing her sport into disrepute, is joined as a silver medallist by Jamaican Tanya Lawrence, who moves up from third. Merlene Ottey, who competed for Jamaica at the time and later raced for Slovenia, is lifted to bronze.

Russian Tatyana Kotova has been given the long jump bronze medal.

Pauline Davis-Thompson of the Bahamas, who won the 200 metres silver medal is upgraded to gold and Susanthika Jayasinghe from Sri Lanka moves up to silver with Jamaica's Beverly McDonald getting the bronze.

An appeal by Jones's relay team-mates, who were also stripped of their medals because of her admission of doping, is still pending at the Court of Arbitration for Sport. No decision will be taken about those medals in the meantime.