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Associated Press legal affairs writer David Kravets reports<\/a> in this article published by the San Francisco Chronicle.<\/em> Excerpt: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Olympic track star Marion Jones has filed a defamation lawsuit against Victor Conte and challenged the BALCO head to take a lie detector test regarding his accusations that she used performance-enhancing drugs.<\/p>

Jones is seeking $25 million in the suit filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court in San Francisco, alleging Conte tarnished her reputation when he made the statement broadcast Dec. 3 on ABC’s “20\/20.”<\/p>

Conte and three others connected to the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative were indicted in February by a federal grand jury for a variety of alleged offenses, including illegally distributing steroids.<\/p>

The suit said Jones passed a lie detector test and includes a statement from her doctor saying she never used steroids. Jones won three gold medals and two bronzes during the 2000 Olympics.<\/p>

Conte’s statements, the suit said, “are false and malicious.”<\/p>

In an e-mail to The Associated Press, Conte said the lawsuit was “nothing more than a PR stunt by a desperate woman, who has regularly used drugs throughout her career. I look forward with all confidence to the court proceedings as I stand by everything I said on the ’20\/20′ special.”<\/p>

Jones’ attorneys offered Thursday to pay for Conte to take a lie-detector test and wants three questions asked of him:<\/p>

* Did he observe Jones injecting herself with performance enhancing drugs on April 21, 2001, as he stated on national television?<\/p>

* Has he ever leaked any grand jury testimony or other evidence related to the BALCO investigation?<\/p>

* Has he ever observed Marion Jones illegally taking any performance-enhancing drugs?<\/p>

…<\/p>

A former FBI polygraph examiner said he tested Jones on June 16 about whether she ever used performance-enhancing drugs or was lying about “any personal use of performance-enhancing drugs.”<\/p>

“It is my opinion that these responses are not indicative of deception,” former agent Ronald Homer wrote in the lawsuit.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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