Story by Eric.
This is the 51st submission in a long series about Marion Jones, a former elite sprinter who won (stole) honour and earned (stole) endorsements, fame and fortune by method of fraud.
This story is being told in its entirety, because Marion Jones is unable to do it herself. Though parts of this story may be historical in nature, they are of essense to the sum of the whole.
My last entry concluded with Dr. Werner Franke, a German anti-doping official and mollecular biologist, stating that there was no reason for Marion Jones's T/E ratio to be tested. The New York Times illuminates more light on the urine testing allegations with the following information:
A government affidavit released in February said that 98 checks had been written to Quest from BALCO from Sept. 13, 2000, through May 20, 2002, and that 33 of them contained the notation “steroids.”
The affidavit noted that Victor Conte Jr., the founder of BALCO, had made Internet postings “referencing Quest as a credible lab for measuring testosterone.”
The fact that certain Quest labs performed blood and urine tests for steroids, the government affidavit said, suggested “'the possibility that Conte is sending his athlete clients' blood or urine samples to Quest in order to determine whether the presence of steroids can be detected.”
The BALCO documents included urine tests sent to Quest just before and after the 2000 Olympics in Sydney; a calendar containing the initials M.J. and letters like C, G, E and I, which anti-doping officials said could be a coded schedule of drug use; and a handwritten ledger with the name Marion J. and what appeared to be T/E test results, as well as references like “IOC.”[1]
The New York Times continues by stating that, according to the documents found in a BALCO file bearing Marion Jones' name and shown to them by Marion Jones's attorneys, a urine test was collected by Quest Diagnostics on 2000-September-13, just prior to the Sydney Olympics.
According to Mark Zeigler of the San Diego Union-Tribune
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