Marion Jones says she is sorry for lying to federal investigators: Marion Jones wants you to know she is sorry.

Marion Jones

Not so much about the performance-enhancing drugs she took — unknowingly, she contends — when she was the most famous and lauded track athlete in the world, a winner of five medals at the 2000 Sydney Olympics, medals she no longer owns.
What Jones really wants you to know is she is sorry for lying to federal investigators about her drug use. That, and her role in a check-fraud scam, are what landed her in prison for six months in 2008, during which she spent 1 ½ months in solitary confinement after fighting another inmate.
“I surely wish that I could go back and change certain things in my past, on one hand, but then I wouldn’t be who I am today, someone who I’m actually really proud of,” the 35-year-old Jones said in an interview with The Associated Press.
Jones’ priorities, goals and the way she makes decisions are rather different, due in part to what she said is her faith. Her book, “On the Right Track,” due out Tuesday, quotes Bible passages.
“My story is unique, in that the first part of my life, my journey, I hit the pinnacle of my career, and it was a very public career, and then I made decisions that cost me all of that,” Jones said. “And so I was at that low point. But I didn’t give up.”
The 213-page book was written with Maggie Greenwood-Robinson.
Jones writes about fearing her life was in danger during a five-minute tussle with a roommate.
Jones said she emerged uninjured, but the other woman’s face “was bruised and bloody.”

Jones played for the WNBA Tulsa Shock last season, but isn’t certain she will be asked to return for another season.

source: seattletimes.nwsource.com