Why You Shouldn't Believe Marion Jones: Vol. 54

Story by Eric.

This is the 54th 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 insofar as they tell a story of a woman who is more complicit in the BALCO affairs and her own drug-taking than she has led on.

My last entry described the number of men who have been associated with cheating now running at five-consecutive for Marion Jones, a disgraced ex-elite sprinter who has had working or personal relationships associated with cheating. In two of those cases–both involving checks–Marion Jones had been perceived to have apparently held an open account used without her knowledge or authorisation.

Before Marion Jones “confessed”, the excuse-matter was running dry, yet people continued listening, hoping and seeking out a way to make sense of the drama surrounding a woman who held the world captive during an incredulous five-season stretch which concluded in 2001. They were, like others who had been before them–but who had earlier seen the light–fans of the sport, and believed true, gritty determination and guts got one Marion Jones to the big game.

If they have now, perchance, undergone a metamorphosis from their predisposition to slow understanding to become students of the sport, they should now find themselves pondering over whether nine thousand words of testimony, accounts and figures were a piece of true accounts of history, or if they were conjecture and factual fiction.

One can find it very easy to parse words, excerpt statements and fit contexts of messages into one’s own defence of a position. One can assemble everything ever written about Marion Jones and apply it in some way, fashion or form against Marion Jones to demonstrate that she had been a hard, chiselled individual who steered fans down a beaten path, despised them, then wondered where they had taken way when she felt it was time for them to reach out to her in forgiveness of her misdeeds.

There are fans such as this one who did not veer off course despite the warning signs:

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