Today, a judge sentenced Olympian Marion Jones to six month in jail for lying to investigators about her steroid use and a check-fraud scheme.
A check-fraud scheme? That’s so … I don’t know … juvenile. I guess I expect a little more from our country’s Olympic athletes. I’m not sure why, after Tonya Harding and all, but still. It’s disappointing.
Jones begged the judge to show leniency and not to separate her from her sons. “I absolutely realize the gravity of the offenses I’ve committed. I want to apologize,” Jones told the court as she began to cry, according to ABC News. “I plead with you,” she said, to not separate “me from my boys even for a short while.”
Since admitting her guilt, the three-time Olympic gold medalist has returned all five medals won in the Sydney Olympics in 2000.
Jones, who used steroids distributed by the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative – the same lab that supplied steroids to New York Yankees star Jason Giambi and San Francisco Giants slugger Barry Bonds – is the first professional sports figure to get prison time for the offense.
Damn Big Bertha will get smashed if she wants steroid injecting Marion to be her bitch.
Too bad she hadn’t just driven drunk. She’d be out by now.
I am so ambivilent about Marion Jones…
Time allows cheats to reach there peak then all of a sudden time is up and humiliation follows, and i must say most deservingly. What a disgrace she is.
Shan I was thinking the same thing.
how sad, i watched her “win” those medals too! i didn’t expect it from her, but then again i thought Milli Vanilli was a real singing group
too bad marion
That’s too bad because I looked up to your running ability but I hope u get better.