Marion Jones will admit in court today that she cheated during the 2000 Olympics in Sydney by taking illegal performance enhancing drugs.
I hope they strip her of her medals and give her a life time ban from competition. For years and years she lied and gave interviews boldly stating that the accusations against her were racially driven and all the while she was immersed in a very complex cheating program.
Another pathetic example of winning at any cost....
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I personally do not think Marion was cheating. I think she was just keeping up with the Joneses. Is it cheating when you do exactly what everyone else does in your event does.
This seems to be the crux of it. Drugging to permissible levels, trying something that hasn't been banned because it was not known to exist, the unusually high rate of diagnosed asthma among Olympic contenders, which allows them to use inhalants.... It's cheating and lying and all that good stuff to sign a piece of paper for Olympic Committee saying you are pure as the new-driven snow. But eventually the black and white get lost in shades of gray, and some serious journalism has basically said, let them do all the drugs they want.
But flaxseed oil?!? Er, no.
Regards, VB
I personally do not think Marion was cheating. I think she was just keeping up with the Joneses. Is it cheating when you do exactly what everyone else does in your event does.
This seems to be the crux of it. Drugging to permissible levels, trying something that hasn't been banned because it was not known to exist, the unusually high rate of diagnosed asthma among Olympic contenders, which allows them to use inhalants.... It's cheating and lying and all that good stuff to sign a piece of paper for Olympic Committee saying you are pure as the new-driven snow. But eventually the black and white get lost in shades of gray, and some serious journalism has basically said, let them do all the drugs they want.
But flaxseed oil?!? Er, no.
Regards, VB
