Marion Jones: Admits To Using Steroids In A Not-So-Shocking Confession.
AP, refering to Washington Post says Marion Jones made the revelation in a letter addressed to close family and friends.
Olympic gold-medalist Marion Jones has admitted to using “the clear” beginning in 1999. Her ex-husband C.J. Hunter was also involved in steroid use, which was discovered during the BALCO scandal.
Who would have guessed she was on steroids?
Marion Jones has the muscularity and body fat of a man, and her husband was busted for steroids. Cheater. - Source:Dreadnaught
Below Are Allegations of using performance enhancing drugs from Wikipedia
For years, Marion Jones was coached by controversial speed coach Trevor Graham, whose Sprint Capitol running organization in North Carolina has been racked by drug suspensions and who himself is being investigated by a federal grand jury. For a time, Jones also worked out with renegade Canadian coach Charlie Francis, who admitted providing drugs to Ben Johnson, the Canadian sprinter who tested positive for steroids after setting a world record in the 100-meter race at the 1988 Games in Seoul.
On December 3, 2004, Victor Conte, the founder of BALCO, appeared in an interview with Martin Bashir on ABC's 20/20. In the interview, Conte told a national audience that he had personally given Jones five different illegal performance enhancing drugs before, during and after the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games. In the course of investigative research, reporters Lance Williams and Mark Fainaru-Wada reported Jones had received banned drugs from BALCO, citing documentary evidence and testimony from Jones's ex-husband disgraced Olympian C.J. Hunter, who claims to have seen her inject herself with the steroids.
According to Hunter, Jones' use of banned drugs began well before Sydney.[5] Initially, he told the investigators, Jones obtained EPO from Graham, who he said had a Mexican connection for the drug. Later, Hunter said, Graham met Conte, who began providing the coach with BALCO drugs that he distributed to Jones and other Sprint Capitol athletes. Still later, Hunter told federal investigators, Jones began receiving drugs directly from Conte.
Allegedly, Marion Jones stopped receiving services from BALCO when her trainer became upset with Conte.[citation needed] Jones has never failed a drug test using the then-existing testing procedures - and insufficient evidence was found to bring charges regarding other untested performance enhancing drugs.
2006 EPO tests
At the USA Track and Field Championships in Indianapolis on June 23, 2006, an "A" sample of Marion Jones' urine tested positive for Erythropoietin (EPO), a banned performance-enhancer. This was reported by The Washington Post, citing people with knowledge of the results who were not identified. Jones withdrew from the Weltklasse Golden League meet in Switzerland, citing "personal reasons." Jones denied using performance-enhancing drugs. She retained lawyer Howard Jacobs, who has represented many athletes in doping cases, including Tim Montgomery and cyclist Floyd Landis. On September 6, 2006, Jones' lawyers announced that her "B" sample had tested negative, which cleared her from the doping allegations.
Marion Jones Reported guilty plea to steroid use
The Washington Post reported that Jones will plead guilty on October 5, 2007 to lying to federal agents about her use of steroids prior to the 2000 Olympic games, admitting to using the steroid known as "the clear" from 1999. She claims she was kept under the impression she was taking a flaxseed oil supplement for two years while coach Trevor Graham supplied her with the substance. In a published letter, Jones said she'd used steroids until she stopped training with Graham at the end of 2002. She said she lied when federal agents questioned her in 2003 because she panicked when they presented her with a sample of "the clear". Her admission might cost her the three gold and two bronze medals she earned during the 2000 Sydney Olympics.
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