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Marion Lois Jones (born October 12, 1975), also known as Marion Jones-Thompson, is an American former world champion track-and-field athlete and former professional basketball player. She won three gold medals and two bronze medals at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia, but was later stripped of her medals after admitting to steroid use.
Aug 4, 2021 · Marion Jones is a Belizean-American former world champion athlete who won five medals at the 2000 Olympics but later admitted to using steroids. She now lives in Austin, Texas, with her husband and three children and runs a business and a fitness program with Camp Gladiator.
Jun 14, 2020 · Marion Jones was a track and field star who won five medals at the 2000 Sydney Olympics, but later admitted to using steroids and check-cashing fraud. She served six months in prison and now works as a personal trainer in Texas.
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Apr 26, 2024 · Marion Jones, American who, at the 2000 Olympic Games, became the first woman to win five track-and-field medals at a single Olympics. In 2007, however, she admitted to having used banned substances and subsequently returned the medals. Learn more about Jones’s life and career.
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Nov 12, 2023 · Marion Jones was a track and field star who won five medals at the 2000 Olympics, but later admitted to using steroids and served a prison sentence. Learn about her life after the scandal, including her marriages, children, and new career.
Jan 11, 2008 · WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. — Marion Jones was sentenced Friday to six months in prison for lying about using steroids and a check-fraud scam, despite beseeching the judge that she not be separated from...
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Marion Jones has known the best and the worst that the Olympic world offers. She first came to prominence as a high school sprint star in the early 90s. She narrowly missed making the 1992 U.S. Olympic team in the individual sprints as a high school senior, and she declined a place on the relay team.
