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Lead Stories: Monday, December 1, 2008

Marion Jones’s Letter to Friends and Family

Posted November 24th, 2007 at 4:30 PM by Adam Jacobs

Section: News & Results, Track & Field, Olympics, Drugs In Sports

Dear family and close friends,

I hope this letter finds all of you well. I know some of you must be wondering where the pictures are that I so often attach to my emails. Unfortunately, this is a much different type of letter. I write this letter to all of you for a few reasons.

The first is simply because I love you all. Some things will be happening in the next week that I want you all to know about from me FIRST. You deserve this because you have been there for me from the very beginning. You have supported me throughout the many struggles that I have had in my life and continue to do so to this day. You deserve to hear about Marion from Marion and not from the USA Today or CNN.

The second reason is because I finally want to shed much baggage that has been tearing me down for a long time. I want to share with you all my humanness. The fact that I have made mistakes in my life, made bad decisions, and have carried a great amount of pain and hurt throughout my life.
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Williams, Richards blogs tackle tough issues

Posted October 15th, 2007 at 1:04 PM by Martin Kennedy

Section: News & Results, Track & Field, Olympics, Drugs In Sports

Two of Team USA’s biggest stars have taken on the toughest news in the sport, including doping, the Marion Jones debacle and the U.S. media attention on track & field.

Lauryn Williams, the 2005 world champion, 2004 Olympic silver medalist and 2007 World Outdoor silver medalist in the women’s 100 meters, has written an expansive blog about the news of Marion Jones admitting to using performance enhancing substances.

Writing about how her “emotions swirled as I listened to [Jones] speak,” Williams says she goes “back and forth between [being] sad for her unfortunate situation and angry at the mess she has created and left for current athletes to clean up.”

She fondly recalls Jones treating her “like a little sister” at the 2004 Olympic Games and Jones calling to wish her a 21st birthday, yet Williams questions “what it must feel like to live a lie so important to all you’re telling it to.”
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