marion jones

The Washington Post is reporting that Marion Jones unsuccessful a drug test at the U.S. nationals earlier this year. The test turned up a little erythropoietin, or EPO, as the cool kids call it. If her 'B' sample turns up the same thing, she's looking at a two-year ban. I'll give you a few minutes to get well from the shock.

Just as a reminder, here's a brief history of previous Marion Jones doping allegation

Marion Lois Jones also famous as Marion Jones-Thompson, is a former world champion
track and field athlete. She won five medals at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia but has since agreed to surrender all medals and prizes dating back to September 2000 after admitting that she took performance-enhancing drugs.

In October 2007, Jones confess taking steroids before the Sydney 2000 Summer Olympics and acknowledged that she had, in fact, lied when she previously deprived of steroid use in statements to the press, to various sports agencies, and—most significantly—to two grand juries. One was impaneled to investigate the BALCO "designer steroid" ring and the other was impaneled to investigate a check fraud ring connecting many of the same parties from the BALCO case. As a result of these admissions, Jones accepted a two-year postponement from track and field competition, and announced her retirement from track and field on October 5, 2007.

The United States Anti-Doping Agency stated that the sanction "also requires disqualification of all her competitive results obtained after September 1, 2000, and forfeiture of all medals, results, points and prizes". On October 5, 2007, Jones formally pled guilty to lying to federal agents in the BALCO steroid investigation in the U.S. District Court. On January 11, 2008, Jones was sentenced to 6 months in jail. She began her sentence on March 7, 2008 and was released on September 5, 2008