COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. -- The U.S. Anti-Doping Agency has agreed to meet with sprinter Marion Jones so she could answer questions about possible evidence the agency has against her.
Jones' lawyer, Joseph Burton, wrote USADA Tuesday asking if it would meet with Jones.
Jones also wants USADA to retest her samples for the designer steroid THG and other banned substances.
"USADA has accepted Ms. Jones' offer to meet for the purpose of her providing all relevant information she has concerning USADA's ongoing investigation," Travis T. Tygart, USADA's director of legal affairs, said in a statement Friday.
USADA has said it has the power to bring a drug case against an athlete even without a positive drug test. Jones said last weekend that she would sue USADA if it kept her from going to the Athens Olympics without a positive test.
Jones won five medals at the 2000 Sydney Games, including three golds.
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.
USADA was given evidence earlier this month that a U.S. Senate committee obtained from the grand jury investigation.
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