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Spokane, Washington  Est. May 19, 1883

Ioc Honors Jones

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They draped another piece of silver around Roy Jones’ muscular neck. Something golden would have been nice, but Jones wasn’t complaining.

Nine years after he lost the Olympic gold medal in a boxing match that secretpolice documents later said was fixed, Jones received the Olympic Order, the highest honor of the International Olympic Committee, for “outstanding merit in the course of world sport.”