When the Checks Stop Coming In

Posted on November 24th, 2007 - By Bossip Staff

Categories: News, Sports, When The Checks Stop Coming In

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Marion Jones

The future is not looking bright for former track star Marion Jones:

The world governing body of athletics has handed disgraced sprinter Marion Jones a two-year ban for doping and annulled all her results dating back to September 2000, including her Olympic and world championship titles. The International Association of Athletics Federation (IAAF) also told Jones to return an estimated $700,000 in prize money and recommended that her United States relay teammates be disqualified and lose their medals from the 2000 Sydney Olympics. Jones retired last month after pleading guilty to lying to federal investigators in 2003 and admitted that she had taken the designer steroid “the clear” from September 2000 to July 2001. Jones won gold medals in the 100 meters, 200 and the 1,600-meter relay in Sydney, as well as bronzes in the 400 relay and long jump. She won the 200 world title in 2001. Jones has returned her five Olympic medals and agreed to forfeit all results dating to Sept. 1, 2000. IAAF spokesman Nick Davies said Jones can’t compete again unless she pays back the approximate $700,000 in prize money. Even though Jones has retired, she is officially suspended until Oct. 7, 2009. Jones would have to give the IAAF 12 months’ notice if she wants to return to competition after the ban, Davies said.

700K in payback dollars might not be that easy to come up with, especially since those Nike checks stopped coming in a while ago.

Via CNN

  • Bronx Brawler

    She already lost her mansion in NC

  • http://1ST tia

    1st

  • tia

    this is so sad she used to be my favorite athlete

  • tia

    oh 2nd

  • tia

    damn i thought i was 1st

  • Ooh, That’s my tra-la-la

    How did Don Imus say it? Ah yes. NAPPY HEADED HOES.

    -1

  • Bronx Brawler

    She had a mansion in the same gated exclusive subdivison as Jordan it’s not far from UNC. My fam lives in NC they said they took back the house she copped for her moms too. I hope Barry Bonds has a better investment portfolio than Marion.

  • Bronx Brawler

    Tia better luck next time, but if you have a phat butt I will give you the top spot on this post.

  • LaLa

    Too bad her relay mates have to suffer too.

  • Bronx Brawler

    ^^^^I would not give my metal back if I didn’t cheat.

  • http://www.TheShoeGame.com G-Roc

    Man that’s all bad

  • scorpio

    bronx brawler is a fool. lol.

    damn that’s terrible. i loved marion jones. but now i see that i, too could’ve achieved her degree of excellence with the help of “clear”.

  • Larry

    How couls she be so greedy and stupid to throw away her fame and reputation like that. Sorry, but I don’t have any sympathy for her. Pretty girl though.

  • http://www.theblackactor.com Baby Please

    She can always get a gig holding Rhianna’s umbrella ella ella eh eh eh.

    http://www.theblackactor.com

  • SAN DIEGO

    SMH

  • Purple Boots

    Thats what cheaters get HAHA

  • Fly Young Lady

    this is just very unfortunate

  • John

    AWW man! they trying to crucify the girl!! Its enough to take away all her medals and titles but to go after money she don’t have! Sad indeed

  • BETTYEJ

    If they want to go this route, then they need to ban sports period and take back everything from all sports figures because most of all of them have used drugs. So, hell, give me my money back for all the tickets I paid for going to Football/Basketball/Soccer/Tennis/ and ect. Yank everybody cribs!

  • Whatchaknoaboutdat?

    She needs to go and find the MF that got her on the juice (roids) and whoop that ass before all her muscles disappear!

  • biwtican

    why are black prople blaming jones? all the atheletes were using something. she never tested positive for anything. the crooks are the drug makers and the fake trainers and coaches they used to trick these atheletes with afke names for the drugs and then blackmailing them to make them keep using them. the governments information is coming from the military who monitored all the use and results and limited the distribution as a national security issue. these high profile persecutions are to keep the government’s involvement out of the forefront and secret.

  • TT

    Damn!!!!!!!!!

  • jackie baby

    Most athletes of her caliber do use steroids. Think lance armstrong. At least he has enough sense to not confess. Some things you just keep to yourself. Lol.

  • tia

    steroids by itself can’t make you win medals you have to put extra work so i do not see the big deal about it. she should have kept quiet and taken that lie to her grave

  • Corree

    see, she shoulda gotten those teeth fixed when she had the money, now it’s too late.

  • prima

    If she wasn’t black they would not be as severe, THEY ARE CRUCIFYING HER. Of course she should not have used steriods,she should have had enough confidence in her natural abilities to win. I do not agree with punishing her teammates as well.Damn, she must have really rubbed someone the wrong way. Hopefully any other athletes that are doing or thinking of using steriods had better reconsider.

  • The Dude Abides

    She should’ve smoked some weed, it would’ve camoflauged the steroids…That plus large quantities of cranberry juice. I always drink large amounts of cranberry juice a week before i see my P.O.

  • The Dude Abides

    Nope! Cranberry juice is flushes most of it out and what’s left can be explained as past use residue. Weed, like acid never fully leaves your system.

  • NubianGoddez

    Damn she was my favorite female athlete.

  • The Dude Abides

    Hey, keeps out the po po. I don’t mind doing 3 to 6 months at a time, but if i don’t pass the urine test, it’ll be an automatic 3 years. Screw that! 3 years without weed is a totally unacceptable way to live, and since i have a record, i can’t score one of those medicinal marijuanna cards. The system is screwed all the way around.

  • The Dude Abides

    Dude, it’s Ocean Sray all the way, accept no substitute, it’s my good luck stay out of jail elixir. Don’t want to screw with the karma. Three large bottle a day, one week before D-Day. It’s like a regiment.

  • The Dude Abides

    Sorry Dudette, For me, it’s just a moral imperative that i avoid that 3 years of purgatory without the herb. It helps to cope with my part time job doing data entry and dealing with a Hitler of a boss.

  • memchee

    I’m just so embarassed by the men and womens USA track teams.

    Wondering will they ever catch Maurice Green……no man with a butt as big as his should have won anything.

    And the cockiness on the part of team USA was just downright ridiculous.

  • The Dude Abides

    Dudette, i got 2 years left to go on my probation, then i’m free to smoke without all the trepidation and bad karma. And no more cranberry juice, unless it’s with Ketel One Vodka. The only positive, is that i’ll never smoke and drive again. The consequences are way too Draconian.

  • Candy Barr

    Although it might appear she is being crucified, she isn’t . . . All the other Olympians plead guilty years ago. She held on for as long as she could. And Corree, that is sooooo tight. (Though I do agree. I hate that tooth on the side that sticks out.)

  • The Dude Abides

    That’s why The Dude Abides on the side of caution and enjoys the vices of life in the safe haven of his Aunt’s backhouse. The rent is cheap, she doesn’t sweat me and all i have to do is mow the lawn everyother weekend. Life is good and will be sweeter in 2 years.

  • The Dude Abides

    Sorry, A co-worker hip on to this site. She felt that i needed to get in touch with my black roots, since as a pre-teen, i was bussed from Baldwin Hills to Palos Verdes for H.S.

  • The Dude Abides

    Yeah, i kinda figured that. I think she felt that i needed to acclimate myself to the slang and how black dudes and dudettes inneract online. Some of it is funny, while the rest is kind of hostile. People need to smoke a little weed and take things a little light. It’s not serious.

  • http://www.searchingmillionaire.com boboan

    she looks familiar. Did you ever posted your profile on a celebrity

    and millionaire dating site called searchingmillionaire.com. I saw your profile there few weeks ago.

  • reppin +228

    I run track at the University level, and since I was in Africa, she was my favorite athlete. I still love her because unlike the majority American Athlete she was humble. I loved her grace . So sad that she was around bad people. That’s what happen when you receive bad advice. Marion, we all make mistakes, just learn from it!!

  • ???

    smh @ the dude abides.

    I wonder why they call weed the cheif. What’s cheifing ???

    I will never try weed, I heard you get short term memory loss after, what if that ish turns permanent.

  • Still Got It

    I’m troubled by the crucifying of Marion and the crucifying to come of Barry Bonds (even though I hear he’s not a nice guy). As far as I can tell, most of those elite athletes use steroids. Look at baseball. If you watch an old clip of a game from the 70s on espn classic, the players are all slender. look at the players today and they are mostly thick (like beefed up cattle). is that just from pumping more iron. Mark MacGuire’s forearms looked like Popeyes. So the sports need to come clean about how pervasive steroids are in sports and do something else instead of selecting a few black players to demonize and hitch and drag their bodies on the back of a media pick up truck. Keep in mind, the only reason these two got caught is the Balco drug trial. Its one thing to lie to reporters (that’s legal) but if you lie in court or in a deposition under oath then you are in big trouble. Ask Bill Clinton. I hate to see something like steroid use end up with you subject to criminal prosecution. Lets get real about what’s important. Not this foolishness.

  • Curly Fries

    I really looked up to Marion. She was the type of sista that you could say, “Do your thing, girl”. I really hate that this whole thing happened. Damn! On a side note, look at that woman’s abs and oblieks! She looks like she has an 8-pack!

  • Marv

    THIS IS SAD. BUT I STILL LIKE HER

  • http://www.spymac.com/details/?2308170 CLICK HERE

    Poor Mrion! It was just a stupid mistake…

  • Jus Another Opinion

    Her six pack is dope…ooh no pun intended!

  • mydixiewrecked

    Damn!! She didn’t even get the chance to get the teefusus fixed!

  • Just Sit And Be Pretty

    ^^^LOL, I was thinking the same thing. She’s got those extra teeth that should have been extracted years ago.

  • Bronx Brawler

    I read a medical journal & one of the many known side effects of steroids in men is the lost of your sexual prowess I wonder does it effect women the same way?

  • Harlem Chic

    You would have to break her whole jaw to fix teefuses like that!

    …this sista got a deep rut to climb out of…she’s got to be feeling suicidal….Not only did she totally destroy her career…she possibly ruined her teammates professional records in the relays….Just all types of wrong….

    …the most screwy is that she lied through dem crooked ass teef of hers; and with a straight face at that. No integrity. Who’s going to trust or believe her ever again?

    She gon need a daily prayer circle and about 75,000 Hail Mary’s to even walk right with herself….

    Sad situation.

  • Bronx Brawler

    I rather be the slowest dude on the track but with the hardest johnson than the fastest dude on the track but with the limpest johnson.

  • OldStinkBreath

    I could climb on that day or night. She has stacks hidden away for these rainy days commin.

  • Whatchaknoaboutdat?

    She can always go and give back to the black community. She can coach at local rec center in hopes of developing and sending under priviledged children to college on full scholarships.

    ***Each on reach one… or two or more.****

  • thetruestfaith

    I still support her. If I had $700K, I would help her out.

  • Oscar

    As another poster said there are a lot of factors at play here. There are coaches and trainers that have pushed these drugs on athletes. Some of them had been taking them not knowing what they were taking. TRUSTING that the “professional” knew what was best. Once they attained their position and status. I’m sure by then they had learned exactly what it was they were taking. But by that time did not want to chance losing their status as champions. The drugs are “enhancers”, it does not give them the skill that they were born with. The blame is being put on the wrong person(s) if you ask me. Lie? A child would lie to keep from being punished. It is human nature. This is more than punishment. It is an attempt to besmirch her very character to the furthest extent possible thereby substanciating their actions.

  • Al Sharpton

    Since she knew she was a role model to many young women (white and black) we have to hold her to a higher standard. That is the heavy responsibility that comes with the money and the fame.

    BAN THIS DISGRACE!

    And Barry Bonds Too!

  • http://www.richromances.com www.richromances.com

    Too bad

  • STUPID

    YEAH, YEAH, YEAH, YADA, YADA, YADA. SHE TOOK DRUGS THAT SHE KNEW WHERE ILLEGAL AND WE’RE DICUSSING THIS BECAUSE? EXACTLY…NEXT TOPIC!

    ALTHOUGH IT’S REALLY JACKED THAT HER TEAM HAS TO FORFIET THEIR MEDALS AS WELL.

  • BossLady

    With all due respect, Marion is an ASSHOLE!!! She took an illegal substance, won the races, denied the allegations, lied about them, and then after 8 years, she admits it?!?!?!?!?!? My momma always told me:

    1. Never lie, cheat, or steal.

    2. If you must lie, cheat, and/or steal, don’t get caught.

    3. If you don’t get caught, don’t do it again, count your blessings and remember that there is always room for you at the Father’s feet.

    Ya dig?

    But seriously, she didn’t get there by cheating. The girl has skills. Much love to Marion Jones and her family. Hold ya head up because you are gonna pay for that dumbass move. (The admission, that is.)

  • Han

    We are investing in corruption, Mr. Roper.

  • elle

    It is soooooo not true that most athletes use steroids.

    There are a hand full in a world of very competative, hard working, well trained athletes, who not only put their/our minds, bodies and souls into what they/we love so… Competition.

    We put our bodies through rigorous training and some of us come out with serious injuries.

    It is iresponsible for her to place everyone in the catagory which she finds herself and I am very upset with her for making a statement like that.

    It shows just how selfish she really is.

    I also feel for her teammates in the Olympics who worked very hard to succeed.

    How dare she…..smh

  • ohnoudient

    @ boss lady – sounds like you contradicting yourself

    Everybody need to leave Marion Jones and Barry Bonds alone. Sad thing is I think they could have achieved the same thing with no steroids at all. What really is annoying is that everybody is taking this steroid thing just one step too damn far. Okay, they are role models, but they are also human. There should have been fines and maybe even some restrictions going forward, but the media and everyone else are using this as a total of their entire careers.

    White America especially is just loving this. Should their careers be summed up as the one mistake they made?

    Also, I think Michael Vick should have been reprimanded, but that too was taken too far.

  • luvlee

    this is stupid, i think she would have won all the medals without the steroid, wso what the fuc does it matter. I wouldn’t have said a damn thing. she stupid

  • DENNIS FM DOVER

    TRUSTING A NO ACCOUNT MAN HELPPED PUT HER IN THE HOLE. SHE SHOULD HAVE WENT LESBIAN AND STAYED STRAIGHT.

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