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Jones has retired as an athlete and is banned by U.S. officials from competition for two years. But the IOC wants to keep her from going to the Olympics as a coach, official, media member or in any other role.
The IOC said it reserves the right to take further sanctions against Jones, including a lifetime Olympic ban, pending the outcome of the BALCO investigation.
IOC vice president Thomas Bach, who heads the three-man disciplinary panel in the Jones case, said he would like her to come forward and provide any information she has on other Olympic athletes or coaches who were involved in BALCO.
“The case is still open,” Bach said. “We are offering Miss Jones to give her comments to us. We are encouraging her to do so.”
Jones’ doping admission came as part of her guilty plea to lying to federal investigators in the BALCO case about using steroids. She will be sentenced on Jan. 11 and is expected to face a term of between three and six months.
Jones becomes the fourth American athlete in Olympic history to have a medal taken away by the IOC, and the third for a doping offense.
Jerome Young was stripped of his 1,600-meter relay gold from the Sydney Games for an earlier doping violation; swimmer Rick DeMont lost his gold in the 400-meter freestyle 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 and returned his medals to his children the following year.
The reshuffling of Jones’ medals could affect the medal status of more than three dozen other athletes.
IOC officials said they need more details from the ongoing BALCO probe to determine whether any other Olympic athletes were linked to the scandal.
There is reluctance among some IOC officials to upgrade Thanou, who finished second behind Jones in the 100. Thanou later served a two-year ban after failing to show for drug tests in the leadup to the 2004 Athens Olympics.
One option under consideration is leaving the gold medal spot vacant.
The bronze medalist in the 100 in Sydney was Tanya Lawrence, with fellow Jamaican Merlene Ottey fourth.
In the 200, Pauline Davis-Thompson of the Bahamas took the silver behind Jones. Sri Lanka’s Susanthika Jayasinghe was third and Jamaica’s Beverly McDonald fourth.
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