Once she acknowledged using performance enhancing substances before and during the 2000 Sydney Olympics, Marion Jonson lost her reputation of athletics golden girl. That’s not all she has lost. Jones had to give back the five Olympic medals and accept a two-year ban, the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) said on Monday. Further, all her results dating back to Sept. 1, 2000 were forfeited.

After the latest reports, she could spend from three to six months in jail.

The 31-year-athlete admitted Friday that she used a banned drug called “the clear”, produced by BALCO. Her then trainer Trevor Graham was the one that provided her with the substance known as tetrahydrogestrinone, or THG. The drug helped Jones become the only female track and field athlete to win five medals at a single Olympics - gold medals in the 100, 200 and 1,600-meter relay and bronze in the long jump and sprint relay.

Her two-year ban began on Monday the USADA said.

The three gold medals and two bronzes were returned by attorneys in Austin, Texas. The medals will soon arrive to the U.S. Olympic Committee headquarters in Colorado Springs from where they will be sent to the International Olympic Committee.

"We've done what we can," said Jim Scherr, the USOC's CEO. "We caught the person who was not clean. We've got the medals in our possession, and we will return them to IOC."
It’s a punishment that many expected, especially after USOC chairman Peter Ueberroth promised Monday that the U.S. team sent to compete at the Beijing Olympics will be drug-free.

Jones was under the IOC’s investigations since 2004 when she was implicated in the BALCO steroid scandal, which also involved her former partner, Tim Montgomery and other U.S. athletes. Although Jones never tested positive, she remained under the investigation for three years.