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7th October 2007
Marion Jones to face jail time
Rather than staying in the athlete’s village for the Beijing Olympics, the once fastest woman in the world, will likely be behind bars. Marion Jones spent most of here fortune on defending drug allegations. She finally confessed to taking performance enhancing drugs, lying to investigators and using counterfeit cheques.
In tears she said, “It is with a great amount of shame that I stand before you and tell you that I have betrayed your trust. You have the right to be angry with me.”
She will be stripped of her five world and five Olympic medals.
Read more: Golden Girl’s world in tatters
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