Halleluiah! They finally caught super-cheat, Marion Jones …
Now, maybe all the distance runners using EPO will be scared cheatless.
Be scared, be very scared … we know who you are.
And, while they’re at it .. why don’t they release all the positive drug test results from the 80’s that are sitting in a vault somewhere. It’s time for all those dirty Nike athletes to be exposed for the filthy cheaters they were/ARE.
C’mon Marion. It’s only 100 meters! Even I can run 100 meters without the need for Epo. I think I figured out why you struggled a bit post 2002. It was the counterfeit Epo that was around. You got a bad batch is all. You gotta watch those cheaters; they’ll sell you something that is not what it’s claimed to be. I know it’s hard for you to recognize something that is not what it’s claimed to be.
You are a disgrace. Hopefully in a few short years, a bunch of clean kids will come along through Chapel Hill and erase your tarnished name from all the record books and we’ll forget who Marion Jones ever was.
I think the term is schaddenfruede (sp?); but, yep, I feel more than a twinge of glee seeing this bust. Maybe not as much as when Regina was caught, but a lot. On a side note: only a fool would assert that East-Africa doesn’t produce great runners, but I am hopeful that drug testing gets more aggressive worldwide; I think a few East African traing camps (with European coaches and western sponsors) merit some scrutiny. And yes, there must be some data from the 70s and 80s I’d like to see; noting the women’s 400m (East Germany, 70’s) and 800m (Czechoslovakia, ‘83) are still officially on the books.
P.S. If they ever outlaw chocolate chip cookies, then you can count me a cheat ( . . . the main reason to run mileage is to eat these guilt-free). :>)
Scared Cheatless!!!! Priceless. As for 100 meters, I have often chuckled at the showoffs in this event where they will slow down 10 meters from the finish and then pull of their tops (the guys that is) Geez, you are only running 100 meters, try to make it all the way through and you didn’t work off that much of a sweat where you gotta take your shirt off. Never mind all the posturing that goes on prior to the start. At many of the meets that I worked at, the sprint races would take forever, the races themselves were quick, it was all the posturing before the races.
On a more serious note, I think that unless they criminalize this form of cheating, we will be dealing with this forever,and it is criminal, the cheats have denied the real athletes some serious money, whether in winnings, sposnsorship or bonus payments for rankings.
Yes, George, performance-enhancing drug users are criminals. They are thieves, pure and simple. If Victor Conte has to do prison time for dispensing drugs, why shouldn’t the cheating athletes do prison time for using them? The thieves – in distance and in sprinting – need to be prosecuted in a criminal court. It’s only a matter of time before the sprint coaches get wise (or even, or whatever) and begin to leak the information on the dirty distance coaches.