Jill Geer on M. Jones: "People loved her..I wonder if Marion prevented us from ever loving an athlete like that again.&qu

Ummmm...has Geer ever heard of Lolo Jones?

Ooops. I forgot the article.

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/olympics--marion-jones--rise-played-out-on-the-world-s-biggest-stage--and-so-did-her-fall.html?

Jill Geer also still thinks that Angelo Taylor is a great guy. She was wearing pigtails and Mary Janes when she said that.

never done drugs myself wrote:

Full quote.

"People loved her. Loved her. Housewives, kids, men. I wonder if Marion prevented us from ever loving an athlete like that again."

I once loved Jill Geer and hated Marion J.

People loved Mary Slaney until LA '84. We get over it.

Jones was a big phony. You had to watch carefully to see it but by 2001 or so it was pretty obvious to me.

I was one of those people. I REALLY liked Marion, even though I was a HS distance guy at the time. She just had this cool competitive spirit and was so dominant. My 4 year old nephew even liked watching her race. I saw her compete at the trials in 2000 and she was amazing (as was Regina Jacobs...) and I even bought her book.

I like a lot of athletes now, big fan of Ritz, Rupp, Fernandez, and Hasay, but I can probably never REALLY like an athlete again because of how tarnished this sport is and how let down I've felt seeing my favorites test positive for PEDs.

I was a nine year old girl with a poster of Marion Jones in my bedroom, she was my hero. When I found out she cheated, even though I was in college as a distance runner and had long since taken the poster down, it still made me tear up.

Thrice wrote:

I like a lot of athletes now... but I can probably never REALLY like an athlete again because of how tarnished this sport is and how let down I've felt seeing my favorites test positive for PEDs.

That's how I feel. I love following track and like a lot of the athletes, but am more wary- the trust is gone. Who's to know if they're really on EPO or not? I would not be surprised if any professional athlete admitted to cheating.

This is why fangirls should't be paid money to hang around the sport. USATF needs some professionalism in the national office.