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The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has formally stripped Marion Jones of her five Olympic medals, wiping her name from the record books following her admission that she was a drug cheat.

The IOC also banned the American athlete from attending next year’s Beijing Olympics in any capacity and said it could bar her from all future games.

Jones had already handed back the three gold medals and two bronze she won at the 2000 Sydney Olympics. Last month, the International Association of Athletics Federations erased all of Jones’ results dating to September 2000, but it was up to the IOC to formally disqualify her and erase her Olympic medals.

The decision was announced by Jacques Rogge, the IOC president, at the end of a three-day executive board meeting.

Jones, once the golden girl of women's athletics, made the shocking admission in October that she had taking performance-enhancing substances before the 2000 Olympics, despite years of denials.

Jones has already been forced to return all five medals she won in Sydney, including gold in the 100 and 200 metres and the women's 4x100 metres relay, as well as bronze in the long jump and the women's 4x400 metres relay.

Rogge added that no decision would be taken on upgrading other athletes’ medals until the full report had been received into the BALCO scandal in the USA that led to Jones’s cheating being uncovered.

Rogge said: “The issue of Ms Jones has been very damaging, but it is a good thing for the fight against doping. The more athletes we catch, the more credibility we have.

“We will not re-distribute any of the other rankings until after the review of the BALCO case because other names may well come out.”

Completing a spectacular fall from grace for one of most vaunted athletes of her generation, Jones pleaded guilty to lying about her steroid use to US investigators at an October court hearing, and went on to making an emotional apology to her many fans and announcing her retirement.

"It is with a great amount of shame that I stand before you and tell you that I have betrayed your trust," she said. "Because of my actions I am retiring from the sport of track and field, a sport which I deeply love."

For years Jones protested her innocence against rumours of doping, but she finally decided to confess two months ago.

“My track coach Trevor Graham provided me with some nutritional supplements,” she said. “He supplied me this for the 1999 and 2000 seasons. In 2001, I noticed a change in how my body felt, how I was able to recover and my strength level. I felt generally weaker in my entire training routine.”

Jones later added: “Looking back in hindsight, red flags should have been raised in my head when he told me not to tell anyone about our workouts or supplementation program. At that time my rationale was, well it makes sense not to give out any information about what we do, why give my competitors any edge.”