Just watched Marion Jones "Confession" on CNN.
She deserves an Oscar for this performance. It was so contrived, the pauses, the tears the plea for forgiveness all delivered with an eye to the camera to create maximum impact.
It was on par performance wise with all the aggressive, vigorous denials she has made over the years that she has never used performance enhancing drugs.
What is the maximum sentence 10 years?
How much time do you think she should serve?
Quite a performance eh???
Her Mom, standing behind her, didn't seem too worked up chewing that gum.
how bout a Gullie for all the folks out there who believe the following people.....
lance, bonds, mcguire, uta, bauman, lagat, geez, i would make a longer list, but this one is enough.
Don't forget Flo-Jo --a true memorial to her cheating memory.
In my opinion, the best way to get athletes to stop doping is to sue the hell out of them after they're caught. If every meet director sued her for all the appearance fees and prize money, she'd be in court for the rest of her life. If this actually happened to enough drug cheats and they saw that they'd not only lose everything but be deep in debt for the rest of their lives from paying lawyers to defend them, some of the doping might stop. Not to mention every single record or medal they ever stole was stripped from the books.
sue her wrote:
In my opinion, the best way to get athletes to stop doping is to sue the hell out of them after they're caught. If every meet director sued her for all the appearance fees and prize money, she'd be in court for the rest of her life. If this actually happened to enough drug cheats and they saw that they'd not only lose everything but be deep in debt for the rest of their lives from paying lawyers to defend them, some of the doping might stop. Not to mention every single record or medal they ever stole was stripped from the books.
ass backwards. who gets the real money? the athlete or the meet director? sue the meet director.
Why no comment on how long she should serve 0-10 years.
Since I'm convinced Marion's apology is only partially truthful, deceiving, and far from complete, I'd give her 4 years. She'd be given the the chance to have it reduced to 1 or 2 years if she makes a written confession that is deemed believable and complete by an independant group containing doping and sprint experts.
Marion only seems to be able to tell the truth about her doping activities where there is some strong benefit for doing so (e.g., reduced prison time).
If we want to learn the whole truth and nothing but the truth, then we need to give Marion a strong incentive for being truthful.
True, but the meet director is not putting the needles into her. I agree they should tie up every athlete who gets caught, with litigation. Actually, I am tempted to file a suit against her as I paid to watch her run and was cheated out of money believing she was clean. Well not really, I never thought she was clean:)