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Anyone who follows the news probably has a picture of the typical steroid user: an elite athlete - a home-run hitter, say - trying to get an edge on the competition, or a high-school or college kid who wants desperately to get into the pros...
...GUILTY For years she angrily dismissed the rumors and even filed a defamation suit after an associate claimed to have supplied her with performance-enhancing drugs. But as a federal probe closed in on her, track great Marion Jones, 32, acknowledged lying to investigators and admitted to ingesting the steroid THG between 1999 and 2001. Jones, who faces prison time, returned the five medals she won at the 2000 Sydney Olympics and tearfully apologized to fans outside a New York City courthouse for having "betrayed your trust." U.S. Olympics chief Peter Ueberroth asked Australians for forgiveness. But the apologies fell...
...tent. Reporters dropped their coverage of the races, of those less famous athletes whose Olympic dreams were hanging in the balance, and sprinted to Jones like lap dogs. She smiled, charmed, even casually addressed a few of those reporters by their first name. She showed no signs that her steroid denials, which we now know were flat-out lies, were causing any stress. She reminded us that she never failed a drug test. "The athletes who have not tested positive have been dragged through the mud," she said. I gave her the benefit of the doubt. I was not alone...
...about track and field. Jones and Gatlin have taken the sport down. Maybe we should have lost faith back in '88, when Ben Johnson got stripped of his medal in Seoul. Think about it - Johnson, Jones, Gatlin - three Olympic champs, convicted cheaters. Compared to track and field, baseball's steroid struggles seem bush league...
...guess you could give Jones a smidgen of credit for finally coming clean. As Jason Giambi of the New York Yankees has proven, those who apologize for using steroids will eventually be forgiven. But even now, it seems, Jones is trying to have it both ways, resorting to the Barry Bonds defense that she didn't know the flaxseed oil her coach was giving her was actually the steroid known as "the clear." Jones is too smart for that, and given all her lies of the past, it's not as if we have any reason to believe...