Marion Jones

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Law finally catches up with Marion Jones
Traces of MJ may be expunged... I bet she could have achieved without artificial support...

Will be a tragedy for the other competitors, ( their names deserve to be shown ) missing the top step or a podium... There are so few chances in such short careers.

I am unconvinced when some of the 'body builder' lady sprinters are in action, how do they bulk out so without artificial aids??

Women's 100m. Final. Olympic Games 2000
1. Marion Jones (USA) 10.75
2. Ekaterini Thanou (GRE) 11.12
3. Tanya Lawrence (JAM) 11.18
4. Merlene Ottey (JAM) 11.19

Women's 200m. Final. Olympic Games 2000
1. Marion Jones (USA) 21.84
2. Pauline Davis-Thompson (BAH) 22.27
3. Susanthika Jayasinghe (SRI) 22.28
4. Beverly McDonald (JAM) 22.35

Women's 4x100m. Relay Final. Olympic Games 2000
1. BAH (S Fynes, C Sturrup, P Davis-Thompson, D Ferguson) 41.95
2. JAM (T Lawrence, V Campbell, B McDonald, M Ottey) 42.13
3. USA (C Gaines, T Edwards, N Perry, M Jones) 42.20
4. FRA (L Ferga, M Hurtis, F Dia, C Arron) 42.42

Women's 4x400m. Relay Final. Olympic Games 2000
1. USA (J Miles-Clark, M Hennagan, M Jones, L Colander-Richardson) 3:22.62
2. JAM (S Richards, C Scott-Pomales, D Hemmings, L Graham) 3:23.25
3. RUS (Y Sotnikova, S Gontcharenko, O Kotlyarova, I Privalova) 3:23.46
4. NIG (O Afolabi, C Opara, R Okafor, F Ogunkoya) 3:23.80

Women's Long Jump Final. Olympic Games 2000
1. Heike DRECHSLER (GER) 6.99m
2. Fiona MAY (ITA) 6.92m
3. Marion JONES (USA) 6.92m
4. Tatiana KOTOVA (RUS) 6.83m

 

[EdwardCurrent]

Hello,
On a news report this morning it was mentioned that the competitor in second place, (where Marion had won a gold medal ?) has since been banned for 2 years for the same !

The 3rd place runner must be gutted !

Ed.

 

[r.bartlett]

It's well know that the US athletic team were big time steriod abusers,

3. The U.S. Track & Field coverups
It is perhaps the biggest doping cover-up in all of sports.

Dr. Wade Exum's report that 19 American medallists were allowed to compete at various Olympic Games from 1988 to 2000 despite having earlier failed drug tests shocked some people in the sporting community but was no surprise to others.

For years, insiders had speculated that U.S. athletes were not immune to delving into doping to get ahead of the competition.

But how could this be? American athletes often spoke publicly against illegal drug use in sport, cursing the sports regimes of East Germany and China for systemic doping practices.

"There is no commitment to stopping the drug problem," said track and field star Carl Lewis in 2000. "People know the sport is dirty, the sport is so driven by records."

Little did Lewis know he would be named in Exum's report.

The five-time Olympic medallist was among the athletes named in more than 30,000 pages of documents released by former U.S. Olympic Committee anti-doping chief to Sports Illustrated and several newspapers in 2003. More than 100 athletes from several different sports tested positive for banned substances between 1988 and 2000 but were cleared by internal appeals processes.

According to Exum's evidence, Lewis was one of three eventual Olympic gold medallists who tested positive for banned stimulants in the months leading up to the 1988 Seoul Games.

Exum made the initial allegations about coverups in 2000, which led several sporting organizations – among them, the IOC, IAAF and the World Anti-Doping Agency – to pressure the USOC to re-examine how they conducted drug testing.

Soon, the USOC turned over drug testing responsibilities to the newly founded U.S. Anti-Doping Agency. Don't worry, the USOC assured, this type of cover-up will never happen again.

So far, it hasn't. (Well, aside from track and field's Jerome Young being allowed to compete – and win a gold medal – at the 2000 Sydney Olympics despite testing positive for steroids in 1999.)

These coverups still beg the question: How could a country's own Olympic federation turn their backs on the oath of fair play and allow drug cheats to compete for a decade's worth of Olympic Games?

Ben Johnson would like to know.

Lewis was awarded the gold medal in the 100-metres after Johnson was disqualified for using steroids.

The Canadian sprinter told the Toronto Star that he felt somewhat vindicated by Exum's report.

"It was (for years) like I was the only cheat," he told the newspaper. "I knew time would take care of the truth."

 

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Jerome Young has since been handed a life ban for another doping offence.
He was stripped of the 2000 Olympic Gold 400 relay medal.
The other members of the relay squad, including Mike Johnson, appealed against the whole team losing their gold medals, I think they were successful in that. ( JY did not run in the final ).

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