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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.
Aug 4, 2021 · Marion Jones is a Belizean-American former world champion athlete. After a stellar high school career, Marion Jones went to the 2000 Summer Olympics, where she won three gold medals and two bronze medals.
Jun 14, 2020 · More than 20 years ago, Marion Jones was on top of the world after winning three gold medals and two bronze medals at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. Eight years later, Jones was stripped of her medals and sitting in a Texas prison.
Oct 5, 2007 · For years, Marion Jones angrily denied using steroids. On Friday, she admitted it was all a lie. The three-time Olympic gold medallist pleaded guilty to lying to federal investigators when...
Nov 12, 2023 · Marion Jones raced to Olympic glory with three golds and two bronzes in 2000 before a doping scandal tripped up her career. Here's her journey afterward.
Aug 15, 2023 · Marion Jones is Working as a Personal Trainer Now. Due to her actions pertaining to perjury, Marion Jones was sentenced to six months in federal prison on January 11, 2008. Her sentence began on March 7, 2008, and she was released on September 5, 2008.
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.
Oct 27, 2008 · Track and field star Marion Jones Thompson was stripped of her Olympic medals and sent to prison for lying to federal agents. For the first time, she's speaking out about the doping scandal that led to her arrest and her six-month sentence.
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...
Dec 12, 2007 · The IOC formally stripped Marion Jones of her five Olympic medals Wednesday, wiping her name from the record books following her admission that she was a drug cheat. The International Olympic...
