Jearl Miles Clark, an Olympic teammate and former supporter of Marion Jones, had previously refused to comment on Jone's recent admission to steroid use.
That silence ended today in the form of the statement linked below.
Here is one of the comments she made:
"Marion may face charges for lying to federal agents and for using performance enhancing drugs. She made mistakes and now has to pay for them. Unfortunately, others may pay for those mistakes too."
damn right - other are gonna pay - others like Clark who did NOT use drugs, did NOT lie and who were steadfastly behind Jones in an effort to believe that their friend and teammate wouldn't be such a &$@$!
I feel sorry for the other members of the team. However, it is unlikely that the 4x400 would have won with a '5th best' teammate running in place of Marion and in the 4x100, they would likely have finished out of the money.
As a result, over the last seven years they have been able to reap the benefits of their placings - appearance money, fame, etc. Now, it is not as good as it was, but has it been worse over the last seven years (including now) compared to not having MJ on the team.
Yes, 26, but those other members of the team could only do what they were called upon to do - run with their assigned team on that given day and to the best they could do. And if they did that honorably, it is indeed unfortunate that their achievements are now tainted by Ms. Jones' admissions.
As it is a team event they should all have to give their medals back.
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