BALCO boss says Jones used drugs

NEW YORK — Olympic star Marion Jones injected herself in the leg with human growth hormone while BALCO head Victor Conte watched, he told ABC News in an interview for “20/20,” to be aired tonight.

Jones was also given other performance-enhancing drugs by Conte, one of four men indicted in an alleged steroid-distribution ring.

Jones’ attorneys denied that she ever used performance-enhancing drugs.

In excerpts released by the network of the interview to be broadcast tonight, Conte said he started supplying Jones with performance-enhancing drugs in the weeks leading up to the 2000 Olympics, where Jones won five medals.

Conte said he gave her a substance called “the clear,” which was later determined to be THG, EPO and insulin. He also showed her how to inject hGH into her leg.

“After I instructed her how to do it and dialed it up, she did the injection with me sitting right there next to her,” he told ABC.

Jones, who is under investigation for steroid use by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, has denied using any performance-enhancing drugs and passed a lie detector test arranged by her attorneys in June.