Yesterday it was baseball and Barry Bonds in the BALCO spotlight, today it is looking like the Golden Girl of the Sydney Olympics (and no, that is not Cathy Freeman, all you rabid local Aussie fans out there LOL), Marion Jones is up to her neck in doping trouble. They are saying this could be the biggest drugging scandal since Ben Johnson, but the surprising thing for me is that it has been on such a slow burn - Johnson runs, gets caught, gets stripped of his medal and that's that. With this blood doping or human growth hormone crap nowadays, it has taken four years for the case to get to this level - and of course, this level being forced by the ABC interview with the boss of BALCO...
'There have been suggestions that Jones will be stripped of the gold medals she won in Sydney if Conte's and Hunter's claims are proved. That would mean her 100m title passing to... Ekaterina Thanou, the woman facing criminal charges in Greece after allegedly evading a drugs test on the eve of the Olympics in Athens.
Were it not so sad, you would have to laugh.'
Such a shame, such a pretty girl as well, could have done anything she wanted without using drugs... and yes, I am a sucker for a pretty face and smile :)
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