LAUSANNE, Switzerland, July 6, AFP 2006 - American Marion Jones will go head-to-head with Jamaica’s Sherone Simpson at the Athletissima meeting in the Swiss city of Lausanne next week, the organisers announced Thursday.
Jones secured the US women’s 100m title last month in Indianapolis and will compete against Simpson, who clocked a season’s best of 10.82 seconds last month, in the women’s 100m by the shores of Lake Geneva on July 11.