Marion Jones Cheater!

What's good about all this is that a lot of us won't be so naive anymore. Still it was a shock when I heard about Marion. In retrospect I'm not sure why, with so much money at stake, and not just for Marion but for all those associated with her.

All the above being said, I think we should all do our best to not buy the trade rags, and books that will pay Marion to give them "exclusive rights" to her trails and travails. I wish the last and only thing we hear about this is the broadcast of her having to return all of her medals to the International Olympic Committee. Better still return her falsley earned money.

What am I missing here? I've read a couple of today's news articles, but I haven't seen anything that explained why she decided to confess today. Also, she claims that she didn't know she was taking anything illegal until after the fact: Jones now admits she took “the clear” — the steroid THG — for two years, beginning in 1999, and that she got it from former coach Trevor Graham, who told her it was flaxseed oil, the Post reported. In her letter, Jones said she didn’t realize she’d used performance-enhancing drugs until she stopped training with Graham at the end of 2002, the newspaper reported. If this is true, then how did she manage to avoid any positive drug tests during that time? Anna Lea

It's disgusting to think of all the money Marion Jones made from her tainted performances. I don't know how these people can live with themselves. She's a real class act. First she claimed she was innocent for years, now she blames her coach. She even had the gall to sue Victor Conte of BALCO after he said she used steroids and HGH.

I don't think she does George. Even if she didn't know she was using illegal drugs at first, she certainly did at some point yet she's continued to deny cheating and has made huge amounts of money due to her tainted performances.

Um, George, she's had second, third and fourth chances. In addition, she married a doper and trained under a doper. I believe she's out of chances. I'm also upset because she is a fellow Tar Heel.

I know Geek but she is so beutiful. That is true, we are beautiful people, us Tar Heels.

If she is required to return her medals, what happens to her relay medals? From the MSNBC story on www.msnbc.msn.com/.../: "What would happen to the U.S. relay team medals won by Jones is also uncertain. After a long legal case, the Court of Arbitration for Sport ruled in 2005 that only Jerome Young should be stripped of the gold medal won by the United States in the 1,600 relay in Sydney. The IOC, IAAF and World Anti-Doping Agency had pushed for the entire team — including Michael Johnson — to be stripped of the victory. Young tested positive for steroids in 1999 but was cleared by a U.S. panel on appeal and allowed to compete in Sydney. He ran in the preliminaries but not the final." -

It's disgusting to think of all the money Marion Jones made from her tainted performances. I don't know how these people can live with themselves. She's a real class act. First she claimed she was innocent for years, now she blames her coach. She even had the gall to sue Victor Conte of BALCO after he said she used steroids and HGH. I agree with Kirk. Tar Heel or no, she's been knowingly lying for years. This "I just paniced" crap is ridiculous. I hope she spends some time in the slammer. This is not an innocent or naive person.

What would happen if everyone who cheated lost their medals and the relays were all affected. I think there would be very few Olympic winners around. If every football or baseball team that had a druggie on the team lost who would play in a world series or Super Bowl. Drugs were and are still part of culture. I do not watch baseball or football any more.