The IOC is awaiting recommendations from the International Association of Athletics Federations before deciding on how to revise the medals. The IAAF council is scheduled to consider the case next week.

The IAAF and IOC also must decide whether Jones' American relay teammates should lose their medals. Jamaica finished second in the 1,600-meter relay, with Russia third and Nigeria fourth. France was fourth behind the United States in the 400 relay.

The IOC ruling could come at the December 10-12 executive board meeting in Lausanne, Switzerland. If not, the next IOC board meeting is in April in Beijing.

WADA president Dick Pound, meanwhile, said he would like an "audit" of all of Jones' doping tests to learn how she was able to beat the system for so long.

"It is not much fun to find that someone who has been tested 160 times admits to doping," he said. "I am not happy to hear that someone who had that many tests was a user for that many years."

WADA director general David Howman cited the Jones case as an example of how police investigations are increasingly crucial in catching drug cheats. He noted that Jones only confessed after being accused of lying to investigators about her steroid use and her association with a check-fraud scheme.

"She is an example of how an athlete can beat the system of sample collection," Howman said. "One-hundred-sixty samples were taken from that athlete and not one resulted in an adverse finding. ... It was only when faced with the unenviable prospect of going to jail for a long time that the athlete confessed that she had cheated."