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Vancouver Now Strike 1 against US Olympic runners Home Medals Results Canadian Results Schedule DaytoDay Schedule Athletes Featured Athletes Team Canada Full Athlete List News Venues Forums Blogs Videos Photos The GamesPast & Present Interactive Features SportsCurling Hockey Skating Figure Skating Short Track Speed Skating Skiing Alpine Skiing Biathlon CrossCountry Skiing Freestyle Skiing Nordic Combined Ski Jumping Sliding Bobsleigh Luge Skeleton Snowboarding Hot TopicsCanada vs US Sidney Crosby Hockey gold Closing ceremony Canadian Olympians Joannie Rochette Follow CBCListen to CBCRadio VancouverMultiLanguage BulletinsMandarinRussianArabicSpanishStory Tools EMAIL PRINT Text Size S M L XL REPORT TYPO SEND YOUR FEEDBACK Strike 1 against US Olympic runnersAthletes denied in fight to keep relay medals stripped after 2000 GamesLast Updated Friday December 18 2009 238 PM ET CBC Sports Two US womens relay teams lost a preliminary ruling Friday in their fight to keep the Olympic medals stripped from them because of Marion Joness doping offencesThe Court of Arbitration for Sport rejected a motion by the runners against a decision by the International Olympic Committee last year to take away their gold and bronze medals from the 2000 Sydney GamesCAS dismissed the runners claim that the IOC was not entitled to disqualify them beyond a threeyear period after the games CAS will schedule hearings next year into the full merits of the case a process that could drag on for monthsWe acknowledge the decision of CAS and are now awaiting their final judgment on this matter the IOC said in a statementJones helped the US women win gold in the 4x400 relay in Sydney and bronze in the 4x100 relayJones admitted in 2007 that she was using performanceenhancing drugs at the time She was stripped of all five medals including gold in the 100 and 200 metres and bronze in the long jumpThe IOC stripped the relay medals in 2008 from her US teammates who appealed to CAS in Lausanne Switzerland on grounds that they should not be punished for Joness drug violationsJoness teammates on the 4x400 squad were Jearl MilesClark Monique Hennagan LaTasha Colander Clark and Andrea AndersonChryste Gaines Torri Edwards Nanceen Perry and Passion Richardson were on the 4x100 team All but Perry are included in the CAS appealDecision comes years after SydneyCAS ruled Friday that the IOC had the right to disqualify the relay runners even though the decision came eight years after the Sydney Olympics The athletes had cited an IOC rule that no Olympic decision could be challenged more than three years after the closing ceremonyBut CAS said the IOC acted on information provided by the International Association of Athletics Federations and did not issue an actual decision in the matterThe CAS panel has considered that the threeyear rul...