Marion Jones

Known for pushing the speed limit and outrunning the best of them, Marion Jones is a former track and field world champion and basketball player for the WNBA’s Tulsa Shock. At the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia, she won three gold and two bronze medals. She is the recipient of the 2001 BET Awards for Female Athlete of the Year.

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Marion Jones: October 12

The former track star and three-time Olympic gold medalist turns 37. (Photo: REUTERS/Nikola Solic)

Marion Jones

Popular track and field star Marion Jones made headlines when she won five gold medals at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, but the winner’s glow wouldn’t last. In October 2007, Jones admitted to taking performance-enhancing drugs and, as a resu...

Barry Bonds Sentencing Closes Out BALCO Investigation

The nine-year federal investigation into sports-doping, known as the BALCO case, will wind up with the sentencing of former San Francisco Giants slugger Barry Bonds on Friday. The prosecutorial effort netted 11 convictions, most prominently of Bon...

Prosecutors Seek 15-Month Prison Term for Barry Bonds

Despite recommendations for a more lenient punishment, federal prosecutors are asking a judge to sentence former San Francisco Giants slugger Barry Bonds to a 15-month prison term.

Marion Jones Urges Kids in Croatia to Think Before They Act

Disgraced former U.S. track-and-field star Marion Jones could be on the way to repairing her tarnished image from the performance-enhancing-drug scandal that derailed her career.
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