Original gold medalist Marion Jones of the United States was stripped of her medal in December 2007 after admitting to doping violations.
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Photograph: Hiroko Masuriki/Getty Images The International Olympic committee today formally stripped the US athlete Marion Jones of the five medals she won at the Sydney games in 2000 and wiped her name from the record books. She was also barred from next year's games in Beijing, and faces a lifetime ban from all future Olympics. Jones - who in October admitted to using steroids before she won three gold and two bronze medals at Sydney - had already handed back the medals prior to today's announcement by the IOC president, Jacques Rogge. Last month, the International Association of Athletics Federations erased all her results dating to September 2000, but it was up to the IOC to formally disqualify her and wipe out her Olympic medals. Jones won gold medals in the 100 metres, 200 metres and the 4x400 metre relay in Sydney, taking bronze in the long jump and the 4x100 metre relay. She was the first female track and field athlete to win five medals at a single Olympics. In addition to those medals, the IOC also disqualified Jones from her seventh placed finish in the long jump at the 2004 Athens Olympics. The move could affect the medal status of more than three dozen other athletes. However, the IOC has postponed a decision on how the medals should be redistributed, including whether to strip her US relay team-mates of their gold medals and whether to upgrade the Greek sprinter Katerina Thanou to gold in the 100 metres. Thanou was later banned for two years for failing to attend drug testing before the Athens games. After years of denials, Jones finally admitted taking steroids in a tearful confession in a New York courtroom in October. "It's with a great amount of shame that I stand before you and tell you that I have betrayed your trust," she said. "I have been dishonest, and you have the right to be angry with me. I have let my family down, I have let my country down, and I have let myself down." Jones becomes the fourth US athlete in Olympic history to have a medal taken away by the IOC, and the third to have the punishment imposed for a doping offence. Jerome Young was stripped of his 1,600 metre relay Sydney gold for an earlier doping violation, the swimmer Rick DeMont lost his 400 metre freestyle gold from the 1972 Munich games after testing positive for a banned substance in his asthma medication, and Jim Thorpe was stripped of his pentathlon and decathlon gold medals in 1912 when it was revealed he earned $25 a week playing minor league baseball. The IOC reinstated Thorpe in 1982, returning his medals to his children the following year. IOC officials said they needed more details from the ongoing investigation into steroids in the US to determine whether any other Olympic athletes were linked to the scandal. Jones faces a US jail sentence of between three and six months after a federal investigation into a steroid distribution ring at the Balco sports nutrition centre, in California. She will be sentenced on January 11. 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Basheer Al-Khewani was 18 years old at the time of the Sydney Olympics, and was making his only Olympic appearance.  On 22 September he took part in the first round of the men's 400 meters, and was drawn into heat eight.  He finished his race in a time of 49.72 seconds, eighth and last in his heat, and was therefore eliminated.  The gold medal was won by Michael Johnson of the United States in 43.84 seconds, the silver was taken by fellow American Alvin Harrison, and the bronze medal was earned by Greg Haughton of Jamaica.
 Hana Ali Saleh was 32 years old at the time, and also making her only appearance at an Olympic Games.  She was the first woman to represent Yemen at the Olympics.  On 27 September she took part in the first round of the women's 200 meters, and was drawn into heat two.  She finished the race in 30.36 seconds, eighth and last in her heat. Her time was over six seconds behind seventh place; therefore she was eliminated at this stage.