| Belizean descent former American track and field | | | | Marion Jones was definitely more involved than she |
| athlete will have to face another scandal, after | | | | admitted in court last October; therefore, the District |
| denying the use of performance enhancing drugs last | | | | Court of New York decided the athlete must be |
| October, Jones was formally stripped of her Olympic | | | | sentenced in January 11th.The most revealing |
| Medals on Dec 12th and banned from attending next | | | | information in the ledger was when Jones took the |
| year's Olympic Games. Now, according to the several | | | | drugs. Apparently, it was a month before the Sydney |
| pages of the ledger that was released to the media | | | | Olympics and during them also. The way the drugs |
| on Friday, Jones is guilty of using human growth | | | | were administered was also published; it was through |
| hormones, oxygen boosting drug (EPO) as well as | | | | sublingual drops and subcutaneous injections. |
| steroids like norbolethone and tetrahydrogestrinone. | | | | Jones also used a wide variety of performance |
| Even when the athlete was already penalized by the | | | | enhancing drugs besides "the clear", one of the |
| sport authorities, the government recommended she | | | | substances distributed to athletes seven years ago |
| must receive more than six months in prison for lying | | | | by Balco Laboratories of Burlingame. The ledger, |
| to an Internal Revenue Service agent about her | | | | whose existence was long known, has the names of |
| doping practices and her role in an elaborate check | | | | several other athletes, but the documents essentially |
| fraud scheme. | | | | suggest the extent of doping by BALCO clients. |
| At first, Jones only admitted to be taken the | | | | The exposure not only heats Jones' reputation, it also |
| designer steroid called "the clear" in 2001. However, | | | | hits the sports community and the Olympic Games |
| the ledger of the BALCO (Bay Area Laboratory | | | | popularity. Marion Jones was one of the most |
| Co-Operative) case revealed the sport star was | | | | famous people in sports due to her five medals |
| implicated in a long term effort to enhance her | | | | (three gold ones) won at the Sydney Games in 2000; |
| performance through the use of prohibit substances | | | | these have already been given to someone else but |
| for her personal gain and was also linked to BALCO | | | | that does not repair the damage done to the |
| lab. | | | | international sport image. |