BBC interview:' I did not deserve prison', says athlete Marion Jones

You break the rules, you do the time. Sucker!!!!

Well at the time I didn't think perjury in a situation that maybe shouldn't have even been in court deserved prison time.

But her steady stream of lies to the public about not knowing what was going in her body kind of validates a jailable perjury sentence.

Well, the guy that owned the lab and developed "the Clear" and sold it to her walked away practically scott free. Such is justice.

It is a little difficult to tell whether she is merely pathologically dishonest or also not very smart.

she knew what she was putting in was performance enhancing but she didnt know it was illegal,i guess that's it?

Crazy Kritters wrote:

she knew what she was putting in was performance enhancing but she didnt know it was illegal,i guess that's it?

Bit of copy and paste reveals where it all started

Jones is a 1997 graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. While there, she met and began dating one of the track coaches, shot putter C. J. Hunter

She won the 1997 WC gold before the clear was even invented in 10.83. In my opinion it is 'clear' that she was using steroid back then. Nobody stands on the winning podium and with a gold round their neck thinks 'I did that clean but I'm going to take a chance and use a PED'

The one interesting point it raises is that athletes caught doping should all be charged with fraud because that's what it is. They have a legal defence prepared as if they are before a court, but are not actually being, as they should be in a professional environment, prosecuted for fraud as a criminal offence. Either that or increase the ban - 2 yrs is just a tempting athletes to role the dice

I would have the do the run of the arrow!

ukathleticscoach wrote:

[quote]Crazy Kritters wrote:

She won the 1997 WC gold before the clear was even invented in 10.83. In my opinion it is 'clear' that she was using steroid back then. Nobody stands on the winning podium and with a gold round their neck thinks 'I did that clean but I'm going to take a chance and use a PED'

I wouldn't be too sure of that. Even if she won that 1997 gold clean, the temptation of illicit performance enhancers would still be there. Who wouldn't want to make winning easier, more dominating and more consistent?

Jones clearly isn't a paragon of rational, judicious or conservative thinking, either. The check fraud case cemented her complete lack of either will power, self control or rationality. Either way, the whole package warranted prison time, in the end. She appears to be a world class manipulator and liar, willing to go along with anything that might benefit her.

Again, people feeling entitled to do what they want and rationalize it away. People like this need to be brought down to earth to be taught how out of it they really are. Isolation with criminal populations does not "adjust" people. Normal people "adjust" them.

'Even if she won that 1997 gold clean, the temptation of illicit performance enhancers would still be there. Who wouldn't want to make winning easier, more dominating and more consistent? '

Rubbish - even without the following:

She hardly improved after 97 and even then only to 98

She still talks about 'the clear' rather than refer to it as an anabolic steroid, as though she was Snow White, taking a bite from the apple. She is a compulsive liar who thinks she is a fairy tale princess.

I don't care for MJ but agree with her.

She did not deserve prison.

Every medical doctor in every town prescribes dangerous drugs, and lies more than she has.

They should be put into prison first, before anyone else.

I cannot understand why performance enhancing drug users are getting jail time and people like Polanski are able to walk away.

I mean, it is dishonest and dirty, but prison?

Agreed.

The standard for sending someone to prison is frightfully low.

She's a damn liar and idiot, but beside that, I wouldn't exactly call her a threat to society.

J.R. wrote:

I don't care for MJ but agree with her.

She did not deserve prison.

Every medical doctor in every town prescribes dangerous drugs, and lies more than she has.

They should be put into prison first, before anyone else.

She did not go to prison for doping, idiot. She went to prison for perjury.

She got off lightly, because the feds didn't charge her with her involvement in Riddick/Montgomery's bank fraud scheme.

asf wrote:

You break the rules, you do the time. Sucker!!!!

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Unless you are W Bush, Dick Cheney, or B Obama

'She went to prison for perjury'

Finally someone with a brain

Didn't she go to jail for lying to a FBI agent?

I agree with the poster who wrote about GWB, Cheney, Obama, hundreds of congressmen, etc. who lie all the time and don't go to jail.

"I don't deserve this kind of shabby treatment."

BZZZZZZZZ!!!

Fap Fap Fap wrote:

I cannot understand why performance enhancing drug users are getting jail time and people like Polanski are able to walk away.

I mean, it is dishonest and dirty, but prison?

What's that have to do with the price of tea in China?? Completely unrelated, Polanski is an extradition issue.