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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Maybe aided versus unaided Games.
That not a solution. Who's going to want to watch, advertise for, or compete in an "Aided Olympics?" Other than as a freak show, perhaps.
Josh54 - not sure what your point is. I don't think any of us are naive about sports, especially in America these days. Sports is no different than any business where there is an epidemic of shady things being done to get ahead. While most of us aren't elite athletes, we are professionals and we know all sorts of things available to any professional to bend the rules or get ahead (insider trading, suspect accounting).
And, yes, there are tour riders who get through without doping, just as there are businesses that achieve without cheating.
Most people involved with running (or track and field) knew about Jones' drug involvement. More people outside the U.S. knew about it. But she was cute, didn't get deformed like the Flo girl. That was a normal girl turned into monster who probably died due to her usage...it was Florence Joyner, just did a check on my memory. No one speaks about her anymore...billy fanstone
Meanwhile...
Wu Yanyan's world record in the 200 IM (2:09.72 from 1997) still stands, and a generation of women swimmers who used steroids over 30 years ago still have their Olympic medals.
OMG, I'm starting to sound like my buddy Phil W.
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Stillhere everyone should be given a second chance. Coaches have been known to do underhanded things. It has happened in swimming where the coach supplied the water bottles for his swimmers. The kids did not know.
By the way that coach is still coaching kids.
Just had the biggest laugh. Carl Lewis just came over on CNN talking about how shocked he was about Marion. Now that is a laugh... I had read he was a user.
George, you are right; everyone should be given a second chance. In her case Geek hit the nail on the head with the amount of chances she had. She had years and years to make this right and she chose to continue with the lies and cheaters mind set. More then the money she made from her cheating, she deprived others clean athletes of their time of glory. Think of all those years and years of hard work, pain, dedication and effort it took to get to the Olympics and then have your honest performance stolen from you by a cheater. A cheater I might add that never repented or admitted her cheating until she had to.
Your second chance isn't the one after you are caught, its the one after you first discover you are doing something wrong. She and her husband, both knowingly broke the rules on a daily basis.
No :cry:for her from me. I'm with Geek on this.
