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Marion Jones Sentenced to Six Months in Jail

Marion JonesMarion Jones is going to serve six months in jail for perjury - for lying about her steroid use at the Sydney Games. Jones had already been stripped of her five medals - she won three gold medals in the 2000 Olympic Games and become a celebrity appearing on the cover of Vogue. The BBC reports that there had always been accusations of steroid use surrounding Jones but she never admitted it until last year.
But in October of last year, an emotional Jones pleaded guilty to lying about her steroid use to US investigators, admitting that she had taken steroids ahead of the Sydney Games.

She retired from the sport and the IOC stripped Jones of her five Olympic medals and erased the American's results dating from September 2000.

In 1984, a nine-year-old Jones had written "I'm going to be an Olympic champion" on her bedroom blackboard.

But for jailed Jones her Olympic dreams, past and present, are well and truly over.
Sports Illustrated has a Marion Jones timeline here. This timeline ends in 2000 but an entry on Infoplease has a couple paragraphs on Jones' life from 2000 to 2007 including her struggles at the 2004 Olympics. The Wikipedia entry is also very informative.

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Posted on 2008-01-11
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