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July 2008
- USA Track Official Urges Bush: Don't Pardon Jones
  
  newser | New York Daily News | Jul 22, 08 6:00 PM CDT
  
  The head of the US track and field program urged President Bush today not to pardon disgraced sprinter Marion Jones, the Daily News reports. Doing so would send a "horrible message" to young fans and to the international community getting ready to watch the Olympics, said Douglas Logan in an open letter to Bush. Jones is serving a 6-month sentence but has asked the president to spring her before her September release. More »
- Key Olympic Drug Test Could Be Unreliable
  
  newser | BBC | Jul 22, 08 2:11 PM CDT
  
  Labs that test athletes for evidence of doping could be letting cheaters slip through, the BBC reports. Negative results for samples an anti-doping scientist deems suspicious have raised doubts about the fairness of the field at next month's Olympic Games. With some versions of a blood-boosting drug available cheaply and nearly undetectable, experts fear many endurance athletes will cheat. More »
- Requests for Pardons Flood White House
  
  newser | New York Times | Jul 19, 08 11:33 AM CDT
  
  President Bush is nearing the end of his term, and felons are coming out of the woodwork in historic numbers to ask for pardons and reduced sentences, the New York Times reports. It is not unusual for there to be a spike in pardons granted by a president in his final months in office: Half of Bill Clinton’s 459 pardons happened in his last three months. More »
- Olympians Adjust to Tougher Drug Tests
  
  newser | USA Today | Jul 1, 08 1:59 PM CDT
  
  Many US professional athletes aren't accustomed to giving blood and urine samples during their off seasons, but with the Olympics approaching, that's all been changing, writes USA Today . The US Anti-Doping Agency requires all potential competitors to comply with a "whereabouts program" and submit to random screenings for HGH and illegal blood transfusions. More »
March 2008
- Marion Jones Reports to Jail
  
  newser | Fort Worth Star-Telegram | Mar 8, 08 6:09 AM CST
  
  Marion Jones has entered a federal prison in Texas, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reports. The disgraced former sprinter is beginning a 6-month sentence for lying to investigators about her use of performance-enhancing drugs and about her role in a check-fraud scam. She has already returned her Olympic gold medals and her name has been removed from the record books. More »
January 2008
- Jailing Jones Sets Precedent
  
  Times (UK) | Jan 13, 08
  
  AFTER it was announced on Friday at a courthouse in White Plains, New York, that Marion Jones would spend six months in prison, beginning not later than March 11, there was widespread condemnation of the former Olympic champion and very little sympathy.
- Judge Sends Jones to Slammer
  
  newser | Associated Press | Jan 11, 08 12:25 PM CST
  
  A federal judge threw the book at Marion Jones today, sentencing the disgraced Olympian to 6 months in prison for lying about steroid use and participating in a check-fraud scam. Jones begged the judge not to separate her from her family, and prosecutors said they were okay with a zero-month sentence. Instead, the judge gave her the maximum sentence recommended in her plea deal. More »
December 2007
- Ledger Reveals Details of Jones' Doping
  
  newser | ESPN | Dec 22, 07 10:53 AM CST
  
  Documents in the federal case against disgraced Olympic athlete Marion Jones, made public yesterday, reveal the extent of her use of performance-enhancing drugs. The Bay Area lab that supplied Jones turned over a ledger detailing her use of human growth hormone, steroids, EPO, and other drugs in 2000 and 2001, during the period in which she won five medals at the Sydney Olympics, reports ESPN . More »
- Jones Further Scrubbed From Olympics Books
  
  newser | Associated Press | Dec 12, 07 5:38 PM CST
  
  Marion Jones had already returned the five medals—three gold, two bronze—she won at the 2000 Sydney Olympics; today, the International Olympic Committee made that disgrace official, formally stripping the admitted drug cheat of the hardware. "She is disqualified and scrapped from the results,” said the IOC president, who banned Jones from attending 2008's Beijing Olympics in any capacity. More »
- IOC Puts Off Ruling on Reallocating Marion Jones' 5 Medals from Sydney Olympics
  
  Associated Press | Dec 11, 07
  
  AFTER it was announced on Friday at a courthouse in White Plains, New York, that Marion Jones would spend six months in prison, beginning not later than March 11, there was widespread condemnation of the former Olympic champion and very little sympathy.
- IOC Delays Call on Jones' Medals
  
  newser | Associated Press | Dec 10, 07 12:11 PM CST
  
  The International Olympic Committee decided today to await more info before awarding Marion Jones' medals to other competitors from the 2000 Sydney Olympics. Jones will still be formally stripped of her medals for admitting to doping, but the IOC wants to talk to her relay teammates to determine whether they should also lose their medals, reports the AP. More »
November 2007
- Marion Jones Falls Further
  
  newser | Associated Press | Nov 24, 07 2:44 AM CST
  
  Disgraced sprinter Marion Jones will have her results in races dating back to September 2000 wiped from the record books, reports the AP, under orders from track and field's world governing body. She's also been ordered to give back $700,000 in prize money. The IAAF council decided to retroactively disqualify Jones from all competitions in the last seven years. More »
October 2007
- IOC Will Move Quickly to Strip Jones of Medals
  
  newser | Associated Press | Oct 5, 07 2:24 PM CDT
  
  The International Olympic Committee announced today that it is ready to make a speedy move to strip Marion Jones of the three gold and two bronze medals she took home from the 2000 Sydney Games. Now that Jones has pled guilty, IOC vice-president Thomas Bach intends to "accelerate and speed up the procedures," the AP reports. More »
- Marion Jones' Fall from Grace
  
  NPR | Oct 5, 07
  
  Essayist John Hoberman, the author of Testosterone Dreams, comments on track star Marion Jones' admission that she used steroids before the 2000 Olympics in Sydney, where she won five medals. Until now, Jones had strongly denied doping allegations against her.
- Marion Jones Used Roids in 2000
  
  newser | Washington Post | Oct 4, 07 5:17 PM CDT
  
  Olympic Gold Medalist Marion Jones has admitted using steroids in preparation for the 2000 Sydney games. The track star will plead guilty on Friday to lying to federal agents regarding her drug use, the Washington Post reports. It is not clear if Jones could be stripped of the three gold and two bronze medals she won in Sydney. More »