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[indytrucks]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7030170.stm

I'm surprised no one has commented on this yet. One of the major American sport heroes of the last few years finally get her due. I hope she gets stripped of her medals. Those indignant press conferences from a couple years ago make her look like even more of an ass. Did anyone else buy her crocodile tears?

Lance Armstrong should be next.

[keane]

[TECO]

Why did she confess, though?
Why didn't she keep lying?
Why come out now and admit drug abuse / cheating?

[TECO]

Just did a Youtube.com search.

Ha, aha!!
Check this out!

2004
http://youtube.com/watch?v=EqaXyjCz7jE

Today
http://youtube.com/watch?v=DxJ1J5lbT-U

But again, after denying drug abuse in the Olympics, why admit it now?

Marion Jones seems likea wonderful actress and it really shows in the above and today's performances on CNN.

[blaseblasphemener]

I think she needs to be given a bit of credit for standing up and saying what she did, obviously too little too late though. I think she was genuinely contrite.

I think at this point, no one comments on drug violations, because the assumption now is that anyone on the national stage is taking something. Maybe some freaks aren't, but I assume 90% or more of top level athletes are doping. that's why I couldn't give a flying f@#$ about most individual sports. It's all about who can cheat the best. Sad state of affairs.

[TECO]

At this point, I expect all of them to be cheating.

"If you aint cheating, you aint trying!"

[Rteacher]

Wherever there is big money on the line, there will be big (in terms of risk) attempts to cheat. Also, during the cold war era, Communist countries like Russia and East Germany cheated in an organized way mainly for propaganda purposes.

The current crackdown in the U.S., of course, is part of the politicized "War on Drugs" - and going after high-profile athletes is a lot safer way to get big publicity than going after Columbian (and Afghani) drug lords.

This article (written in 2000) suggests that reliance on steroids and other pharmaceuticals will soon be replaced by genetic engineering ...

Dopes in History

Doping isn't a new problem in Olympic sports. Ancient Greek Olympians drank mushroom and herb concoctions for extra oomph. In 1904, marathon runner Thomas Hicks nearly died after gulping down what he called a "stimulating strychnine and courage-inspiring brandy." (Strychnine is often used as a rat poison.) At the 1960 Games, a Danish cyclist died after overdosing on stimulants. For years, East Germany, formerly a Communist country and now part of Germany, government athletic trainers fed athletes large doses of testosterone, a male hormone that can increase an athlete's muscle mass and strength.

The IOC began drug testing of Olympic athletes in 1976. But tests cannot detect all banned drugs. "Too often, abusers stay ahead of the testers," said former Olympian John Naber.

Dying to Win

Athletes who abuse drugs risk not only disqualification from the Games but also their lives. Several performance-enhancing drugs have been linked to heart and liver damage. Other drugs can permanently deform bones.

For many athletes, however, it's a risk worth taking. In 1995, Dr. Robert Goldman asked 198 U.S. Olympic-level athletes whether they would take a banned drug that would guarantee them victory but would kill them in five years. More than half of the athletes said yes.

Why would athletes jeopardize their health for Olympic medals?

Some experts cite the lure of big-money contracts and endorsements. Peter Ubel, a sport science professor at the University of Pennsylvania, blames the high value many cultures place on physical perfection.

"This is clearly a problem in other competitive industries as well, such as in Hollywood and in modeling, where the only way you can get an advantage is [by] doing something unnatural to your body," he said.

Race Against Doping

Whatever the reason some athletes abuse drugs, the IOC, the USADA, and other Olympic sporting organizations agree that more needs to be done to combat doping.

According to Charles Yesalis, author of The Steroids Game, a solution needs to be found fast. Yesalis predicts that genetic engineering of athletes is on the horizon.

"Doping might soon be [overshadowed] by genetic engineering of high-performance bodies--injecting a virus to deliver genes that increase [oxygen] production, for example."

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EPF/is_8_100/ai_66677898

[Smee]

Another self-absorbed, maladjusted athlete. She said what she did was illegal, the "illegal" refering to lying about taking PEDs. She still claims that she wasn't using knowingly. This is the latest trend in insults to our intelligences . . . we are expected to believe that workout warriors like Bonds and Jones, who count calories and know exactly what they're putting into and taking out of their bodies, would somehow use a mystery supplement without knowing what it is or what it does.

Lying to federal investigators would lead to perjury charges, would it not, against regular Americans. Of course she should have her medals stripped. I'd love for her former sponsers to sue her, but I don't think that's legal . . . there's really no way to fairly punish someone who uses illegal means to not only gain attention but to win millions and millions of dollars. Sure she is humiliated now, but Americans have a stubborn inability to shame people (Monica Lewinsky?)

[Ya-ta Boy]

I think it's time to open a second 'athletic world'. One for competitors who are openly doped to the gills and one where no one is. Saddly, I think all the attention (and money) would go to the doped one.

[TECO]

[jinju]

Better late than never. She will now be publically humiliated...her life will become hell...she deserves it for wearing that ugly grin in Sydney when she KNOWINGLY took glory from those who deserved it.

[Alyallen]

And let's not forget that she's flat broke as well. And involved in that crazy fradulent check/money laundering scheme that took down a few athletes as well.

What goes around comes around I guess.

[Smee]

Jones has given up her 5 medals. Normally the gold would go to the silver medal winner, but that person was suspended for a doping scandal at the 2004 Games.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,300216,00.html

[mindmetoo]

The bit where her relay team members are being asked to give back their gold medals too. Oish. Now that's a test of real sportsmanship.

Would you?

[jinju]