Marion Jones

Marion Jones had won 5 medals at the 2000 Olympic games, she routinely denied any involvement with doping, even testifying before two grand juries that she had always been steroid-free. Then, when the BALCO scandal broke, Jones was again implicated as having been one of the many athletes to use "the Clear."
In a 2004 interview, BALCO founder Victor Conte told 20/20 that he had personally given Jones five different types of performance enhancing drugs before, after, and during the Sydney Olympics. However, Jones had never failed a drug test using the testing procedures of the time, and there was insufficient evidence to bring charges against the athletes.
Finally in October of 2007 she admitted to lying to federal prosecutes investigating the BALCO affair. She was stripped of her five Olympic medals and sentenced to six months in prison and 200 hours of community service.
Marion Jones is now playing in the WNBA playing for Tulsa Shock making the professional minimum, about $35,000

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