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Track Star Marion Jones to Admit Steroid Use

NPR | By Tom Goldman

Published October 5, 2007 at 6:00 AM EDT

Track star Marion Jones made sports history by winning five medals at the 2000 summer Olympics, but now she's scheduled to appear before a New York Court to plead guilty to lying to federal agents about her use of performance enhancing drugs. Her confession comes after The Washington Post published contents of a letter Jones sent to family and friends in which she admitted doping and talked about her court date.

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