If we really believe that sport should be kept free of drugs, Ms. Jones should most certainly be required to return all medals gained during her drug-taking period. These medals rightly belong to the other athletes who came behind her as rightfully earned by them.
Nice tearful press conference Ms. Jones, however, you were an adult when you took drugs and made your choices. You should expect little sympathy. Nice fame, press and wealth, while you got away with it.
I have more sympathy for those who struggle daily to be the best that they can be and who find their results tarnished by someone who cheated finishing before them.
Onésimo Alvarez-Moro
See article:
Disgraced sprinter Marion Jones has handed over the medals she won at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, the US Anti-Doping Agency has announced.
Jones has also accepted a two-year ban, although she announced her retirement last week when she admitted taking steroids to a New York court.
Jones confessed that she had taken tetrahydrogestrinone (THG) from September 2000 through to July 2001.
The 31-year-old won three golds and two bronzes at the Sydney Games.
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