WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. -- Marion Jones was sentenced Friday to six months in prison for lying about using steroids and a check-fraud scam, despite beseeching the judge that she not be separated from her two young children "even for a short period of time". "I ask you to be as merciful as a human being can be,'' said Jones, who cried on her husband's shoulder after she was sentenced.
After long denying she ever had used performance-enhancing drugs, Jones admitted last October she lied to federal investigators in November 2003, acknowledging she took the designer steroid "the clear" from September 2000 to July 2001. "The clear" has been linked to BALCO, the lab at the center of the steroids scandal in professional sports.
The 31-year-old Jones also was given two years' probation and supervised release, during which she will be required to perform 800 hours of community service. The disgraced former Olympic champion was ordered to surrender March 11 to begin her term.
After long denying she ever had used performance-enhancing drugs, Jones admitted last October she lied to federal investigators in November 2003, acknowledging she took the designer steroid "the clear" from September 2000 to July 2001. "The clear" has been linked to BALCO, the lab at the center of the steroids scandal in professional sports.
The 31-year-old Jones also was given two years' probation and supervised release, during which she will be required to perform 800 hours of community service. The disgraced former Olympic champion was ordered to surrender March 11 to begin her term.
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that hooo deserve to go to prison
have the Caribbean athletes can get their gold medals now
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