Marion Jones admits steroid use

Imagine she made a comeback after this and is allowed to compete a month later. Then imagine Nike starts to produce commercials showing how awesome she is. Track people would be enraged, correct?

This makes track look bad, but that's because track and field actually tries a little bit to catch drug cheats. Football and baseball, on the other hand, celebrate their drug cheats and yet it's track and cycling that the average American looks at as dirty.

Very sad! Who is clean?

If this is clean, I must apologise for defending Marion Jones. I am disappointed.

Isn't American manufacturers of these drugs? And they are now selling to everyone? Sad for the sport.

marijuologist wrote:

I'm afraid I can't even give her respect for coming clean at this point. It's too late. She's just aknowledging what everyone has known for years.

And she's still playing the innocent victim, "I didn't know what it was," "He said the check was from _____," etc. I don't believe for 2 seconds that she really thought it was flaxseed oil. She's either the dumbest woman in the world, or the biggest liar. Nothing's her fault.

Ballad of a Thick Woman

Trev walks into the room

With supplements in his hand

And sees some babe naked

Says "Who is that man?"

You try so hard

But you don't understand

Just what you'll say

When you get banned

Because something is happening here

But you don't know what it is

Do you, Mistress Jones?

You raise up your head

And you ask, "Is this flaxseed?"

And somebody lifts your tongue and says

"Swallow please"

And you say, "What's this?"

And somebody else says, "You're in the clear"

And you say, "Oh my God

Roll on Sydney next year"

Because something has happened here

But you don't know what it was

Do you, Mistress Jones?

Are you a poet?

NativeSon wrote:

Very sad! Who is clean?

If this is clean, I must apologise for defending Marion Jones. I am disappointed.

Just wise up. People really need to pull their heads out of the sand. This is an indictment of not just Jones and her team of personal sycophants but of USATF and IAAF doping controls. Either they're doing too little to catch drug cheats or they just look the other way and hope nobody else (government, media) cares enough to try to trip up the stars of the sport.

Tony wrote:

Which is the loser, Jones or the 'family member' who read the letter to washington post reporters. OK, Jones is a loser, and I am glad this has finally come to light, because I always knew in my bones she was up to no good.

Having said that, if I were her, I'd find the family member and beat some ass.

If a family member looks me in the eye for years and flat out lies to me, and I go defend her to my friends because of how sincere her denials are to me, and then it turns out she's been using me this whole time, I think I'd get on the phone to the paper too. She basically made her whole family look like total fools, I can't blame someone for being pissed about being lied to.

I'd still do her in a heart beat.

Who here didn't think she was a drug cheat?

dah ....

Mtn Dew wrote:

This makes track look bad, but that's because track and field actually tries a little bit to catch drug cheats. Football and baseball, on the other hand, celebrate their drug cheats and yet it's track and cycling that the average American looks at as dirty.

Either that or it's because track and field does TOO LITTLE to catch and throw out dopers and outside parties (government, media) sometimes end up doing it for t&f. Perception is reality, so don't go comparing t&f to football or baseball. Football and baseball certainly have their own issues, but they can get away with more because the public is much more in love with their product on the field than the public is with t&f. T&F is more comparable to cycling or swimming. The average American just isn't captivated by t&f, so the media gives scant coverage which ends up being either about the accomplishments of a handful of superstars or about stars getting busted. Nobody cares about what Dathan Ritzenhein or Brian Sell or Shalane Flanagan are up to, good or bad. There is no fuller picture of the sport (to the average American) that includes all of the lesser lights. Even when a footballer is caught (Merriman), he's forgiven pretty quickly because he came back and produced on the field. Most fans do indict MLB for allowing the culture of doping that gave the sport a black eye with sham numbers from Sosa, McGwire, and Bonds.

Well, duh, didn't we all know she was on drugs?? It just goes to show how ignorant posters are when they say crap like "she never failed a drug test, therefore she is clean"...

Yes, exactly.

I remember putting up a poster of her on my wall after the 2000 Olympics and then tearing it down after allegations... we all knew it was true, we were just waiting for the facts to come of for certain.

kosovo12 wrote:

Isn't American manufacturers of these drugs? And they are now selling to everyone? Sad for the sport.

You don't read the news much, do you.

China is the big manufacturer of this, then they ship it to all over, and yes the US. It was just headlines in the news last week. Yes, I know its cool to bash the US, but get your facts straight.

I got so excited when I saw this, I jumped off the couch and started chearing and my friends came running out wondering what the hell was going on! I have been wating a long time for this. Finally Justice!

I hate writing this but this just reinforces in my head that gay is probably a cheat too. Think about sketchy character (cheating and not taking classes in college), coached by a guy in jail. I mean is there anyone who is more probable to be doping in the history of the sport than tyson gay. There is no way his coach is that good. Coaching a great COLLEGIATE RUNNER and turning him into one of the greatest sprinters of all=time from jail. I think he probably has drug connections that gay doesnt want to give up or he has threatened to rat gay out if he drops him as a coach.

Q. Why are sprinters so stupid?

http://www.charliefrancis.com/

A. No time to think. It's all reflexes.

Distance runners are smarter because they have time to reflect and genuflect.

ImBroke wrote:

I read recently that she's completely broke now.

I wonder if she'll make any book deals, and do some talk shows to get back in the black now that she's come clean.

She's attractive and famous enough that some sugar daddy will take her on as arm candy. No need to even pretend that she's writing a book.

anyone could have called the newspaper and said this stuff, I am surprised at the Washington Post for publishing the story. I hope she denies the letter ever existed and it blows up in their faces. Why not just wait until she actually confesses, instead of going to print on an alleged confession? This story is weak, since when did the Washington Post become L' Equipe or whatever the hell that french drug rag is? These people will print anything.