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Reuters Internet Delivery System Track and Field News Wire By Gene Cherry RALEIGH, North Carolina, May 10 - Marion Jones's agent admitted to being unaware of a move to bar the former triple Olympic champion and her boyfriend Tim Montgomery from competing at European meetings because of their association with the BALCO laboratory in California. "It's news to me," Charles Wells told Reuters in a telephone interview from his office in Texas on Tuesday. "I know nothing about that. "All I know is that I have been talking to promoters in Europe all week about putting both of them in meets," Wells said. Two sources who declined to be named told Reuters those discussions included the Golden League meeting in Rome on July 8. There could be earlier meetings as well, the sources said. A spokesman for British promoters Fast Track said earlier on Tuesday the Euro-Meetings Group, whose members organise nearly 50 meetings, had agreed Jones and Montgomery would not be invited to Europe this year. "There's no presumption of guilt," the spokesman said. "But unfortunately they carry far too much baggage to be invited to our meetings." World 100 metres record holder Montgomery has been charged with serious doping violations by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, which has also investigated Jones. Both athletes have been linked to the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative (BALCO) near San Francisco that is at the centre of an international doping scandal. Montgomery's appeal against a possible life ban will be heard by the Court of Arbitration for Sport in San Francisco in the week beginning June 6. Neither Jones nor Montgomery has ever tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs and both have denied taking them. ENDS
