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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/02/magazine/02jones-t.html?th&emc=th
Excerpt:
The sky was still dark on the March morning in 2008 when Marion Jones, the five-time Olympic medalist, folded her long legs into the passenger seat of her Honda Pilot. She had barely eaten that morning and sat silently, staring out the window as her husband began the three-hour drive to a federal prison in Fort Worth, Tex., where Jones was to begin a six-month sentence. During the ride, her husband, Obadele Thompson, pulled off the highway twice because Jones felt sick to her stomach. In the prison parking lot, Jones and Thompson hugged and kissed a couple of times, before she asked to stop; she did not want to cry. She had with her the few things she was allowed to bring: an inexpensive watch, her wedding band, small silver stud earrings, a Bible. Robert Maxwell for The New York Times
Accompanied by two guards, Jones walked to the prison’s processing center. Before she passed through the heavy metal doors, Jones looked back at Thompson. And as she watched him drive away, she felt a surge of anxiety.
It was the culmination of one of the most dramatic and tangled descents of a sports hero. Years after adamant denials of doping, Jones pleaded guilty in 2007 to lying to a federal agent about taking performance-enhancing drugs during the 2000 Olympics. Within a few days, the United States Anti-Doping Agency banned her for two years from track-and-field competition, and representatives from the U.S.A.D.A. and the United States Olympic Committee knocked on her front door to collect her five medals. Her track-and-field times from the 2000 Games onward were wiped from the record books — as if she never existed.
