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Disgraced Sprinter Turns to Basketball
March 11, 2010

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Former sprinter Marion Jones signed with the WNBA’s Tulsa Shock on Wednesday, hoping to launch a new career in basketball after losing five Olympic medals for using steroids and doing jail time for lying to federal prosecutors.

Jones was a star at the 2000 Summer Games in Sydney, but admitted two years ago that she had taken a designer steroid known as the “clear.” She was subsequently stripped of her medals, including three golds.

Before Jones became known as the world’s fastest woman, she was the starting point guard on North Carolina’s national championship team in 1994. She was drafted by Phoenix in 2003 but never played in the WNBA. 



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