Marion Jones returns five Olympic medals

Her reputation is gone and now so are Marion Jones’ Olympic medals.

Jones gave back the five medals she won at the Sydney Olympics in 2000 on Monday and agreed to forfeit all other results dating back to Sept. 1, 2000, further punishment for her admission that she was a drug cheat.

The three gold medals and two bronzes were turned over to U.S. Olympic Committee and U.S. Anti-Doping Agency officials at her attorneys’ office in Austin, Texas. They are en route to USOC headquarters in Colorado Springs, and the USOC will return them to the International Olympic Committee.

“We’ve done what we can,” said Jim Scherr, the USOC’s chief executive officer. “We caught the person who was not clean. We’ve got the medals in our possession, and we will return them to IOC.”

Jones won gold in the 100 and 200 meters, as well as the 1,600 relay. She won bronzes in the 400 relay and the long jump. It will be up to the IOC to decide what to do with the medals and whether to vacate Jones’ results from Sydney – which could cost her relay teammates medals, too.

Scherr and USOC chairman Peter Ueberroth both said they would support the IOC nullifying the relay results, and encouraged the other Americans to give back their medals.

•An autopsy showed a heart condition, not record-setting heat, killed a Michigan police officer who died during an unusually hot and humid Chicago Marathon.

Chad Schieber, who collapsed while running on the city’s South Side, had a mitral valve prolapse and did not die from the heat, the medical examiner’s office announced.

•Olympic medalist Deena Kastor won the USA Track and Field 10K Championship in Boston with a time of 32 minutes, 1 second. Katie McGregor came in second at 32:41 and Elva Dryer was third in 32:53.

Miscellany

Owen found dead at 71

Edwyn “Bob” Owen, who played on the 1960 team that won the first Olympic gold medal in hockey for the United States, was found dead in his burning car in Topeka, Kan. He was 71.

Investigators have not determined the cause of the fire but said part of the engine probably made accidental contact with dry grass, leading to flames that spread to the car.

Autopsy results said Owen died of smoke inhalation, thermal burns and heart disease.

•Three men were charged in the fatal campus shooting of Taylor Bradford, a University of Memphis football player, authorities said.

•New York Knicks center Eddy Curry has a tear in his right shoulder and missed the preseason opener against Philadelphia.

•In London, champion jockey Kieren Fallon went to trial on charges of conspiring to fix races in Britain, a day after winning Europe’s most prestigious horse race.

Fallon and five other defendants are accused of conspiracy to defraud customers who used the online betting exchange Betfair. They are accused of interfering with the running of horses to ensure they lost 27 races in Britain between December 2002 and September 2004.

•The T-Mobile cycling team will skip the final two races of the season because of doping cases that resulted in the firing of team members Lorenzo Bernucci and Patrik Sinkewitz.