ASSOCIATED PRESS

BEIJING–Nearly eight years after the Sydney Olympics, the International Olympic Committee is prepared to disqualify Marion Jones' U.S. relay teammates because of her doping history.

Any reallocation of the medals, however, is expected to be postponed again.

What to do with Jones' five medals from the 2000 Games is among the main agenda items this week for the IOC executive board, which opens a two-day meeting in Beijing on Thursday.

Any reshuffling of the medals could affect the medal results of more than three dozen other athletes. But IOC officials say they are likely to wait for further evidence from the BALCO steroid investigation in the United States before making a final decision on redistributing the medals.

The IOC wants to know whether any other Sydney athletes are implicated in the BALCO files.

"It makes no sense to distribute medals now and take them back in six months," said a senior IOC official involved in the case who spoke on condition of anonymity because the executive board has not yet been briefed.