In her first interview since she was released from prison, disgraced U.S. sprinter Marion Jones continued to insist she was unaware that she was being given a performance-enhancing drug by her coach, Trevor Graham, and she still claimed that she never questioned the nature of the substance her coach gave her.
"I cannot believe Marion Jones continues to lie. Enough is enough.
She knowingly used performance enhancing drugs and has already been to prison for lying about it in the first place" said Victor Conte, the Balco boss, who claims he watched Jones inject herself with performance-enhancing drugs.
"I thought I was taking a supplement,’" Jones said to Oprah. ". . .Never knowingly did I take performance-enhancing drugs."
Chicago Tribune Columnist Philip Hersh writes:
"Sorry, Marion, but it is hard to buy that. You are an intelligent woman. You were nearly 25 years old when you
won five medals (three gold) at the Olympics in 2000, the year when you
said Graham first gave you a substance later identified as the steroid,
tetrahydrogestrinone (THG), known as ``The Clear.'' And now you want us to believe that you were responsible only for
``not being more careful with the people I associated with and not
questioning people more?’’ Maybe, Marion, the problem is you have become something of a pathological liar. You lied to federal investigators about use of performance-enhancing drugs. You lied to federal investigators about your role in a money-laundering scheme. Now you want us to believe that you were totally unaware of what was
going into your body after years of competing at a level where one
failed drug test could end your career?"
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