After being stripped of five athletic medals that she won at the Sydney Olympics in 2000 and all those performances erased from the record books, Marion Jones has now been sentenced to six months in prison for lying to federal prosecutors about her steroid use.

Jones plead guilty to two charges in October after she retired from athletics and confessed to betraying the trust of her fans after years of denying she used performance enhancing drugs.

US District Court Judge Kenneth Karas gave Jones six months for lying about steroid use and two months, to run concurrently, for misleading federal investigators about a check fraud case involving her ex-boyfriend, former 100m world record holder Tim Montgomery.