updated 5:28 p.m. ET May 24, 2004

CARSON, Calif. - With a stiff wind behind her, Marion Jones breezed to victories in the 100 meters and long jump Saturday at the Home Depot Invitational.

Olympic champion and former world record holder Maurice Greene won the men’s 100 meters with a time of 9.86, also wind-aided.

The wind for each of those three events was around 10 mph, more than double the allowable limit.

Jones, who insists she’s able to focus on training and competing despite constant questions about the BALCO steroid investigation, was timed in 10.99 seconds in the 100, and took the long jump with a leap of 23 feet, 4¾ inches.

Jones was among a handful of athletes to testify before a federal grand jury about the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative. The grand jury was looking into the alleged distribution of performance-enhancing drugs to athletes. Jones repeatedly has said she has not used any such substances.

She was pleased with her performances at the Carson meet, but many of the questions she faced afterward again concerned the BALCO case.

The U.S. Anti-Doping Agency agreed earlier this week to meet with Jones so she could answer questions about possible evidence the agency has against her. She also wants the USADA to retest her samples for the designer steroid THG and other banned substances.

She said she wants some answers.

“Why are they trying to ban an athlete who has not tested positive for any banned substances? We’re wondering why my name is being dragged into this,” she said. “I sat and testified in front of the grand jury, yes.

“But the fact that they’re trying to ban athletes and whether or not I’m one of them, we don’t know. That’s what we’re trying to find out. And if so, why?”

Jones said recently that she will sue the USADA if it attempts to ban her from this summer’s Olympics.

Greene, who has strongly endorsed the USADA’s campaign to catch and punish athletes who use banned substances, even drew questions about BALCO. His coach, John Smith, confirmed Saturday a report that he had met with BALCO owner Victor Conte Jr. in 2001.

Greene referred questions to Smith, saying, “My coach can fill you in better than I can. I am for our (USADA) drug system, I love what they’re doing and I’ll stand behind them 100 percent.”

Smith, however, would not comment further on the meeting or any ties to Conte.

The San Jose Mercury News reported the meeting between Smith and Conte, saying that Smith signed a confidentiality contract with Conte then.

Conte and three other men have been charged in the BALCO case. All four pleaded innocent.

Sprinter Kelli White accepted a two-year suspension last Wednesday after admitting to using banned substances. She tested positive for the stimulant modafinil at last year’s world championships and U.S. nationals. The USADA said it also found evidence she used undetectable steroids and the endurance-enhancing hormone erythropoietin.

White is the first athlete to be suspended based on information from the BALCO case.

Jones didn’t like USADA’s reaction afterward.

“The fact that USADA commended her courageous act by admitting that she tested positive, I don’t understand how you can commend that,” Jones said.

Jones, who won five medals at the 2000 Olympics and hopes to add to that at the Athens Games this summer, didn’t face much competition in either of her events in Carson.

Angela Daigle, whose career best was 11.27, finished second in the 100 in 11.17. Grace Upshaw was second in the long jump at 22-5.

Greene, who waved and bowed to the crowd and even blew on his “hot” shoes after his race, finished ahead of Doc Patton (9.96) and Rae Edwards (10.04).

“My feet were burning,” Greene said with a grin.

Savante Stringfellow, a U.S. Olympian in 2000 and ranked fifth in the world last year, pulled up lame with a strained right Achilles’ tendon during warmups for the long jump and withdrew.

Hussein Al-Sabee won the event with a wind-aided jump of 27-7¼.

Sydney Olympics bronze medalist Melissa Morrison defeated seven-time national champion Gail Devers in the women’s 100-meter hurdles, with a wind-aided time of 12.44. Devers finished in 12.52.

Christian Cantwell got off a series of six shot puts of more than 70 feet, including a winning mark of 73-4. Reese Hoffa was second at 71-1¼, and John Godina was third at 69-0½. Alan Webb won the men’s 1,500 meters in 3:35.71.

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