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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.
Feb 21, 2022 · Marion Jones was a highly rated two-sport high school star who dominated in basketball and track. The California native received an athletic scholarship in basketball and moved across the country to attend the University of North Carolina to play basketball and run track. Jones helped the basketball team win a national title during her freshman year.
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...
Jones set herself the goal of winning five gold medals at the 2000 Olympic Games. She succeeded in winning five medals, three of them gold. The golds came in the 100, 200, and 4×400 metres relay, while she earned bronze medals in the long jump and 4×100 relay.
Oct 5, 2007 · Five-time Olympic medallist Marion Jones announced her retirement after pleading guilty to two charges of lying to U.S. federal agents on Friday.
The EB disqualified Marion Jones from the five events in which she competed at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney (100m - 1st place, 200m - 1st place, 4 x 400m relay -1st place, 4 x 100m relay – 3rd place, and Long Jump - 3rd place), and from the event in which she took part in the 2004 Athens Olympic Games (Long Jump - 5th place).
Oct 6, 2007 · WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. — Track-and-field standout Marion Jones pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court on Friday to two counts of lying to federal investigators and admitted taking steroids before the...
