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Marion Jones
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Marion Jones

Marion Jones is a former world champion track and field athlete. She won five medals at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia but voluntarily returned all her Olympic medals and forfieted all her race results from September 2000 after admitting she lied to federal investigators about her use of a performance-enhancing drug.After her release from prison, Marion sought to take her experiences and encourage others to learn from them. She is actively speaking to teens and other groups and spreading her "Take a Break" message through which she advices young people to stop, take a break, think and seek proper advice from people you trust and who have your best... Read full bio

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On the Right Track will be released on August 02, 2011 in Trade Paperback
Aug 02, 2011
On the Right Track is now available in Trade Paperback
Aug 02, 2011
On the Right Track is now available in eBook
Oct 26, 2010
On the Right Track will be released on October 26, 2010 in eBook
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Chapter 2 from On the Right Track
Oct 13, 2010

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Flow Track, March 9, 2013
...Top 2 plus the next 4 fastest advance to Final. American: A 6.95 3/7/1998 Gail Devers - Marion Jones Collegiate: C 7.09 3/11/2001 Angela Williams/Lakya Brookins, USC/ S.Carol NCAA Meet: M 7.09 3/12/2011 Lakya Brookins, South Carolina Facility: F 7.02...
Fort Mills Times, February 20, 2013
...a mullet that wouldn't quit? A wig, sorry to say. Other books aren't quite as forthcoming. Marion Jones told us all about winning five golds in Sydney, but neglected to add the part about being juiced while she ran past everyone. Lance Armstrong had...
Sunday Standard Botswana, November 16, 2012
...of us laugh. People related to what Loose Canon wrote about. I ask him about his greatest love, Marion Jones. Ntuane cups his head and shakes it before declaring, I miss my babe. Loose Canon loved Marion so much he once wrote, I was not amused when I...
SI.com, October 24, 2012
...but they are remarkably quiet about their doping colleagues. Guys, it's Lance Armstrong and Barry Bonds and Marion Jones that are causing your sprint time, your home run total, and your absence from competing to come under scrutiny. Spare at least some...
SI.com, October 24, 2012
...but they are remarkably quiet about their doping colleagues. Guys, it's Lance Armstrong and Barry Bonds and Marion Jones that are causing your sprint time, your home run total, and your absence from competing to come under scrutiny. Spare at least some...
Mirror.co.uk, October 24, 2012
...ll be calling for track and field to be banned too – or has he simply forgotten about Marion Jones, Ben Johnson, Tim Montgomery and the legions of others who got away with it during athletics’ own darker times? Pat McQuaid should resign as the...
BackPage Lead, October 10, 2012
...of perpetrating the greatest sporting fraud in history - greater than the 1919 Chicago White Sox, Ben Johnson, Marion Jones, Hansie Cronje, the Spanish 'Paralympian' basketball team and any other sporting shysters you'd care to name. The litany of...
Yahoo! Singapore, January 19, 2013
...confessions that we've seen before from other people who spoke to Oprah Winfrey in the past like Marion Jones and others," said Wellings. "It was more about the family side, the emotions and an attempt from him to show some remorse. He knows he needs to...
Arab Times, January 19, 2013
...any gallery of fallen icons who have shamed their sport, the likes of drug-cheat sprinters Ben Johnson and Marion Jones. “Yes,” he replied when asked directly whether he had used performance-enhancing drugs. Winfrey rapidly fired questions at...
Arab Times, January 19, 2013
...any gallery of fallen icons who have shamed their sport, the likes of drug-cheat sprinters Ben Johnson and Marion Jones. “Yes,” he replied when asked directly whether he had used performance-enhancing drugs. Winfrey rapidly fired questions at...
Oman Tribune, January 19, 2013
...de France doping scandal, human growth hormone and blood doping. The 41-year-old American joins sprinters Ben Johnson and Marion Jones whose achievements are forever tarnished by the Faustian bargain they struck with the drug pedlars. Jones, the...
Arab Times, January 19, 2013
...any gallery of fallen icons who have shamed their sport, the likes of drug-cheat sprinters Ben Johnson and Marion Jones. “Yes,” he replied when asked directly whether he had used performance-enhancing drugs. Winfrey rapidly fired questions at...
CNN, January 19, 2013
...to consider: 1. DO SOMETHING DIFFERENT Before she too became an alumnus of the Oprah sofa, American sprinter Marion Jones denied doping her way to Olympic glory in the Sydney Olympics. The truth eventually overtook her. After , Jones began a new career...
TCPalm, January 19, 2013
...name a few. We could go on. We could mention Mike Tyson and Tonya Harding, Ben Johnson and Marion Jones, and even Kobe Bryant, who seems to have been forgiven for his indiscretion in Colorado, where rape charges went away faster than you can say "Ben...